Elon Cohaagen cutting off the oxygen in Venusville is fiction, right?
Reading about power outages and trees exploding from the cold, and the best we’ve got is the wrong kind of snow every decade or so.
Dockhunt: closer to that journalistic slip of the tongue than the UK chancellor of the exchequer.
Not sure how public sector workers contribute to the “wage/price spiral” given their labour isn’t sold for profit on the open market.
The workers being lowered into the sewer are all Irish. This is England! We expect foreigners to clean up our shit.
What is your worst walk? Mine is Canning Town to the Greenway via Manor Road. Nasty in all weathers.
The BBC’s review into its taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt output is interesting and worth a look, as is this commentary from Richard Murphy.
Newham Council would like people to drive less and walk more. It’s a laudable aim even if, as we heard at the “budget summit” they favour the stick over the carrot. Today, it’s an icy morning and the walking routes to local schools are ungritted.
I have some thoughts and comments about reforming NHS bureaucracy. I tried referring myself to Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting, but they wouldn’t see me. I have to follow appropriate channels.
The UK may avoid a recession for now but it won’t feel like it for many
Britain avoids recession because population permanently drunk.