The UK economic problem of our age. Fix productivity and a lot of the rest of the problems go away imo

This is a fantastic article to see the week after M&S told me not to expect their jeans to last more than a year 🙃

A big part of the value of these universities is bringing lots of similarly-minded people together, and so whilst good intentioned, I’m not sure this would work.

Not Oxbridge, but Durham had a college in Stockton for a few years and even at a comparatively shorter distance, it didn’t work great.

The one thing from Twitter I’m really missing on Bluesky is the instant pulse of the nation.

I just want to see what people thought of Gavin and Stacey!

Of course, data getting incredibly cheaper over time is nothing new - just look at how the price of computer memory has changed over time.

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And then today, you can get 40GB for £8 a month.

Comparing this to 2018, it means you can pay £0.20/GB vs £10/GB six years ago - which is 50 times cheaper!

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Roll on 2022, and 15GB for £8, 2023, 20GB for £8 and then 2024, 25GB for £8.

These would all go up 70-92p in April based on inflation, but it was still an incredible deal.

More data and a cheaper bill, why would I pay anything else?

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In 2020, I signed up to my first monthly sim contract with O2, which gave me unlimited texts and minutes, with 10GB of data for £10.

I thought it was bonkers that I could get 10x the data for the exact same price - no brainer.

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It’s incredible how much the price of mobile phone data has evolved in the last ~5 years.

My first mobile phone sim was a Tesco Mobile Pay As You Go “Rocket Pack”, which got me 1000 minutes, 5000 texts and 1GB of data for £10 a month. This was 2018.

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This is very cool, and currently has the award for coolest thing I’ve seen here so far.

This award will be updated regularly, I hope