They moved onto a four day week a while ago; don’t know what’s happened since then.

The best knowledge is hard won and comes from mistakes, so your worst tattoo is your best ad.

Presumably makes sacking people at very short notice easier.

It’s superb!

Excellent work. You describe my borough very well, I can’t imagine how much work that must have been for the entire city.

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At nine grand a pop the Russian state doesn’t care.

Also how much of the “centre ground” is really a statistical artefact from a population better described by some sort of bimodal distribution…

They are very, very cheap. The kid that led the arson attack on a Ukrainian owned warehouse got very little, clearly it was not as lucrative as his other drug dealing business.

I mean, that vaguely allies with my gut feeling but who knows? It feels all very random.

You’re in Hanwell right? I am moving there atm.

As a current Ealing resident I suspect this will be the outcome, but maybe also a NOC with Labour relying on the Greens. Some Reform in the outer bits maybe.

I have suffered quite severe long covid - think housebound for 80% of days at times - and I say thank god for being able to order a pint of milk.

I was delivering curry and Chinese in ‘05 and it wasn’t new then.

Yes my block of flats has a v wide range of people who all rub along perfectly well despite their differences. And some London drivers even manage politeness!

I think most visitors’ experiences are v different from living here. I also find Londoners show plenty of civic virtue but the centre, where most tourists spend their time, is much more brusque. Also knowing the city makes it much less stressful.

She is a classics/philosophy person which doesn’t mean she has any sense of numbers. Also plenty of academics are mental (due to overconfidence imo) and they face the same incentives as everyone else. Greens are just populist and a bit nuts.

The population is mostly innumerate, so it is to be expected.

Hard to underestimate how much the left loathes Blair and anything to do with him, and how strongly this persists in Labour. Some of them are still harking back to Atlee. A movement with few wins struggles to create a narrative of winning that it’s comfortable with.

Unfortunately (for me, not you) the reasons are paywalled but since I believe the same thing I can probably guess them. Just massive negative externalities! Plus distaste at people who think their kids shouldn’t have been educated next to scum like me.

Delicious pani puri on a cart at the amazing Apna Punjab in Southall.

There is nothing illogical about banning an activity that is similar to drinking in its effect on your driving.

It’s impunity and convenience that makes it ubiquitous. People ignore speed limits for the same reason.

A friend of a friend is a young guy, into MMA stuff, non-graduate. One minute he is laughing about DJT. I look at his insta six months later and it’s full on racism.

This stuff isn’t static, it’s part of a process.

I can assure you from having watched thousands or tens of thousands of drivers that a lot - far too many - really will do this. For exactly the same reason people used to drink and drive or not wear seatbelts: it is socially acceptable and hasn’t been well enforced yet.

No, if the source is easy to crack down on we should do that too. Which is why we ban drinking and driving.

If you think that is the median phone use in the car then you dramatically overestimate drivers.

He’s a top kid by the sounds of it!

In my experience “kids in the car” doesn’t temper idiots as much as you’d think… that’s what makes them idiots.

Oh, we have an easy way of keeping some people alive or uninjured but we shouldn’t use it because it’s not perfect?

To 10 year old boys.

This just screams “totally dysfunctional organisation” doesn’t it?