Lol

Yeah, his response to the prospect of online lessons took us by suprise, he'd never previously mentioned it (we were joking about getting Joe Wicks on in the morning :))

For me it's now more of an anchor point for remembering when something happened, rather than evoking strong feelings

Came up in a conversation with our 16-yr old - his school's had a big rebuild due to it being one of the worst RAAC-affected - return after Easter's delayed so they been stagger the kids getting used to it - three day's of Teams lessons were floated and he told us how much he hated those days

The Sound of Silence The past week has brought the shocking reality of anti-Jewish hatred home to a lot of people in this country - but there is one part of society that still doesn’t seem to have noticed.

"And the response to this from Britain’s anti-racist movement, that regularly claims to mobilise tens of thousands to march against racism? Zilch. Nothing. No campaigns, no solidarity vigils, maybe a tweet or two, but beyond that? Silence." — @daverich1.bsky.social

"a staggering £147k!"

I'd add renewables investment, but they don't like to talk about that too much :)

Was it not the 10th April on that JP Morgan map?

And companies where the CEO wasn't earning 10x might feel the need to start doing so

Yeah, my first thought on hearing the result was that Trump's gonna think "what a loser, can't even fix an election after 16 years in power"

Front page of The Express from a couple of Saturday's ago (04/04/2026), "Marmalade Madness!"

Britain taking its problems seriously:

"robotic fan cameras to take match day selfies from your seat" is worthy of an Ian Malcolm could/should evaluation

The former being much the better guarantee of improved salary

...and we're back online!

But they're over it now, "one euro for one litre"?

Thanks for this thread &, just curious, this harking back ever reference the deutschmark?

Many of us have come to hate two things: change and the way things are.

I've come back to re-read this four times now

Yeah, the huge growth in recent years means that a sizeable chunk of society chooses to spend its leisure time literally losing!

There's a link to the huge growth in online gambling here, even winning feels like a loss - Barney Ronay captured it perfectly in his piece last weekend:

"There was brief, air-punching euphoria. Then … I felt nothing. I felt sad. Why hadn’t I put everything on this?"

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That same generation also likely enjoyed access to equity release (sure Duncan Weldon referred to this as treating houses like an ATM), & compensation from both endowment and PPI misselling - big one-off cash transfers into households

Reform candidate in 2024 council elections had this as a big attack-on-waste line

"but County Durham's a massive council!"

Determined by which of those years was nearest your 20th birthday

When's the last time you remember him feeling he had to explain himself

Thanks

& we're second in Europe :(

Related to this: Indian sub-continent Catholic priests taking up diocesan positions in Australia - unhappy to find they're more likely to be addressed by their first name than the "Father" they've grown accustomed to

(as recounted by the Aus priest who was our local guy a few years ago)

Lol

The usual "takes 40 seconds to say what he could've said in 10" & contradicts himself multiple times in the process

"In some ways, this total lack of interest in consistency has held the MAGA coalition together."

Will the left ever learn this lesson :)

Think this rises to ~75% when you limit it to foods that can actually be grown in the UK