I don't believe in heaven but I need to believe in hell. - Anon
It's not easy but all you're doing by dwelling on it is giving them more opportunities to hurt you. Learn to talk yourself down when it starts taking over your head space.
Because these are the people who rule over us. With all the information in the world at their fingertips, they remain willfully ignorant. Apparently unable to recall what they pay their cleaners or work out what annual salary the minimum wage equates to.
How much, we asked our group, would it take to put someone in the top 10% of earners? They put the figure at £162,000. In fact, in 2007 it was around £39,825, the point at which the top tax band began. Our group found it hard to believe that nine-tenths of the UK's 32m taxpayers earned less than that. As for the poverty threshold, our lawyers and bankers fixed it at £22,000. But that sum was just under median earnings, which meant they regarded ordinary wages as poverty pay.
Mistakes such as these should disqualify the wealthy from pontificating about taxation or redistribution. And yet City views carry great weight with ministers and politicians of all parties.
Neither the Guardian nor Polly Toynbee are agitating for revolution, of course. They cling to the belief that information will solve everything. They're liberals, it's what they do.
But they're right, we should be angry. And the abject ignorance of the very wealthy should be highlighted at every opportunity. These are not credible people and their lack of credibility matters.
Labour was in power for 11 of the 14 years the prosecutions were happening. They ceased in 2013 because one of the Post Office's lawyers advised that their Fujitsu witness had been committing perjury and couldn't be used again. Instead of righting the wrongs they just quietly stopped prosecuting.
There's an ongoing inquiry, which started in 2021. It's already given an interim report on compensation.
They started investigating in early 2020, after Bates vs POL succeeded.
Why no charges have yet been brought, I do not know. But there is an ongoing inquiry (with at least one witness asking for immunity from prosecution). They may need to wait for that to conclude, given the thousands of documents it is wringing out of the Post Office (which is still trying to avoid disclosures).
There's a fair few judges and lawyers who need to be in the firing line also. Most of these cases should never have been brought, the evidence was not there and all concerned should have known it. And very often did know it. But investigators got bonuses based on recovered monies, so they'd just make a shaky charge of theft and then terrify defendants into pleading to lesser charges and the legal system let them.
New cars are too expensive for the vast majority of people. Policies like this are intended to get more (new) EVs on the road now so that in 5, 10, 15 years' time there are affordable EVs available for those who buy secondhand.
It's not a good policy. A hefty subsidy to the upper middle class which assumes private vehicles are part of a sustainable future (they're not). Better to increase VAT on non-EVs, tax non-EV company cars at a punitive rate, buy only EVs for public services.
And put a shitload of money into public transport which is free at the point of use. Focus driverless tech on 'last mile' trips (getting people to and from public transport hubs). Plus community pool EVs for those trips which are impossible by public transport no matter how good it is.
Any 'green' policy focused on getting more of any kind of car on the road will fail to achieve its 'green' aim. They're just finding ways to shovel more money at the relatively well off and pretend it's good.
Politicians from left to right know this reality, but they don’t dare admit it out of fear of being seen as “soft on immigration”.
This is far too generous. They want a cheap workforce and they want to keep it cheap. Demonising migrants and taking years to provide them with papers and the legal right to work, with a permanent threat of deportation regardless of residency rights, is not intended to reduce their numbers, it is intended to make them easier to exploit. And, by lowering the bar for the most exploitable, making everyone else easier to exploit too.
On November 22, Joanne circulated a letter among the migrant crew. “I have been made aware the crew members are contacting an outside representative,” it read, possibly referencing a call Quezon made to Stella Maris seeking help for Susada. “I am also aware that crew members have been leaving their port without permission or making our office aware. Sadly the actions by these crew members are beginning to ruin the trust and faith we have placed in our Filipino crew.” It concluded by noting they would make reports to local police and UK immigration authorities “if necessary”.
Her students were not calling for genocide and the questions were a trap along the lines of "when did you stop beating your wife?".
I think it's fair to say that she did not handle it as well as she could have done - directly calling out the nature of the question would have been better. But her refusal to throw her students under the bus is to be commended.
It clearly does make sense to make the most of existing nuclear capacity , it does not make sense to build more nuclear. It costs billions and takes decades to come online, the same billions spent on solar and wind starts producing power immediately.
It's an interest-free loan to a giant corporation in return for obliging someone to keep it somewhere safe, and remember to take it with them when they want to spend it, with no choice as to where to spend it, and a high chance that they never will get around to spending it.
If you find any, ask your doctor if they'd consider participating, or contact the trialists and find out if there are any doctors near you who are involved.
If your doctor gets involved in research, they might be able to cast the net wider and find a suitable trial for you.
I don't know anything about the technical side of this. But I would (possibly naively) think that it would be simpler to have a filter that you could automatically apply to sift bog-standard search engine results for Fediverse instances? Like adding "site:uk" to the end of a normal search, except that your filter term would check a list of Fediverse instances to return the relevant results.
And make it an app/add-on so that people can use it with their usual search strategies.
The can is used to preserve it and prevent the processes that would otherwise make it better.
Canned soup - which is a bunch of ingredients sealed in a tin then heated to cook and pasteurise it - is never going to taste as good as fresh ingredients that only need to stay edible for a few days, not a few years.
I don't believe in heaven but I need to believe in hell. - Anon
It's not easy but all you're doing by dwelling on it is giving them more opportunities to hurt you. Learn to talk yourself down when it starts taking over your head space.