You forgot finance, visa and MasterCard should not exist outside of the US.

I can see it and I’m not using VPN?

That’s all very well but 1) I’m reading this using firefox with clean cookies and.ublock origin and the block is still there. And 2) a cookie paywall is a defacto paywall.

For those of you wondering if you might have been affected but can’t find out because the article is paywalled: Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax are the ones affected.

Yep, I don’t have kids but my yearly isp change comes with the added joy of disabling the parental controls.

They have run out of money and apparently will now only build 550m of it!

All at the low low cost of eradicating people you find genetically inferior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

Things you never knew existed: https://priceofastamp.co.uk/

It looks like stamp prices have increased slightly above inflation but when you consider how few letters are actually sent since a stamp was a few pence it kind of makes sense. You can send a letter from one end of the country to another for £1.65 and I don’t think that’s too bad!

Maybe because no-one knows about it because whatever it is is locked behind a privacy wall.

I don’t agree with letting the US use our air bases but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a poorly written dog shit opinion piece.

Probably not but doing less evil is better than doing nothing.

What the fuck is Scotland doing wrong?

https://www.essex.gov.uk/news/2024/three-new-schools-open-start-autumn-term

Three new primary schools for £31m within a short commute of London.

63/10.3 = 6 Primary schools.

…and based on your reply that education is sorely needed.

Or about 3,500 small but very deadly drones (UK made of course)

If you cherry pick a badly run upgrade to a run-down hospital in the middle of a city as an example then of course the numbers will be high. If (like me) you choose a badly needed community hospital in a more remote and deprived area then £30m is easily enough.

I don’t want a penny of my taxes going on these particular elections since it is a massive waste and your flawed logic isn’t going to convince me otherwise.

Interesting to see what happens when people vaguely competent are running the show, isn’t it?

Absolutely, for the low, low price of two new hospitals and a new primary school some more people get to join the grift train for a few months before the council they are elected to ceases to exist. Worth it.

Good.

A good article as ever by the Secret Barrister.

I do think though, that TSB faith in Judges, CPS lawyers, Barristers, to accept even miniscule changes to the current status quo is misplaced. They are very entrenched in their ways and resist change.

Part of me wonders whether the sledgehammer approach is intended to shake them out of their inertia so they might accept actual pragmatic changes to the system.

Or not guilty. The jury failed to reach a verdict which means the should be re-tried.

I’m sorry you feel that way. Here is a link to some resources about healthy internet habits: https://saferinternet.org.uk/

Be well.