This is a significant risk. We know that people will use their phones, send texts or browse social media etc, when driving even though this is illegal. Do we imagine they won’t operate cars’ menu controls while in motion if there’s a service they want to access?
But then neither are any of the other options, whether viable or fanciful choices, so what are we to do? At some point, you have to vote for the team that is selling what you want.
The way I read it, Labour is positioning itself to fill that void. It will tell itself that this is in the national interest because it is resetting the clock back to the Thatcher era, which is significantly to the left of the May/Johnson axis. It probably isn't admitting to itself that it is...
It's interesting - we've been watching re-runs of To The Manor Born, and Yes Prime Minister on BBC recently and TTMB definitely hasn't aged well. It's not so much that the jokes are off colour by today's standards, but that the whole premise of the programme (posh person slowly learns to get on...
I'm in the process of moving to a new Windows machine - a Win 11 laptop from a Win 10 mini desktop. The new machine shows the pages in a slightly different font (unread posts and thread titles are a little more bold than before) and I'd assumed it was just a Win 11 thing (both machines are using...
The problem is, ISTM, that the presidency is more about popularity than it is about capability. People vote for the man - he is their man - rather than for what the man will do in office and how well he will handle the office. It’s a development of the party loyalty thing, where people vote...
Thing is, we already have no shortage of neighbours who don't like us, and our power structures are pretty vulnerable ATM, so any additional risk has to be weighed up in that context.
Until this thread I didn’t even know candescent was an actual word! Still less that it means the same as incandescent.
I am incredulous and inconsolable, it’s intolerable.
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