Yes, this is the one that triggered the post, it’s just an absolutely mad advert, should know this stuff, it is the core of your job

Different game.

Yeah, for sure! That’s not what I’m talking about tho.

Yeah, where it gets thorny is most film is an act of co-creation: the additional CGI scenes that break another director’s choices or overlay someone’s modelwork are different to revising a novel. I sort of come down on “he sold the rights freely, Disney are freely exercising their own choice too”.

I think a combination of “too much money” and “it is a general purpose technology whose final usage is not yet properly understood”.

He’s being sarcastic. Don’t even need to go and look at it in person to see where the doctored image differs from the real one.

I meant 'of public services'.

To be honest the closest analogy is probably to see it as quite a lot like a LPC government when the Liberals are led from their left flank, but with a disastrous foreign policy.

In that respect it was a v traditional Labour government (which is why our built environment is 1960s modernism, 1970s buildings, and 2000s architecture).

No, the 1997 to 2010 era saw huge increases in public spending for services.

He pulled it right on economics. Not on social policy.

I can’t believe that I had missed that it runs a two tier fee *and* queueing system.

Right, it’s a terrific ornament: unless you live in, what, a three mile radius of Paddington it has never been a good deal, but it is the simplest and easiest direction to give, does a decent trade, etc etc.

This review is lots of fun if you hate bad writing and grifters

slate.com/culture/2025...

Oh that would be a great place for one! And I do think that the Johnson era one really shows that even if you build them in a dumb place for a dumb reason (which that would not have been IMO) they do quite well.