Same cause as a lot of problems: the UK has an incredibly right-wing press (mostly owned by a few billionaires) that pumps out propaganda all the time

GDP is not a good metric

The green party have over 300

True, but the green party also have over 800 councillors
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68956733

What is EAST?

Sausage roll abuse is beyond the pale

Worth remembering that it wasn’t always a free-for-all before minimum wage was introduced. I think there was a mechanism to set minimum wages by industry, which got dismantled by thatcher (not sure on specifics but pretty sure there was some mechanism to set minimum wages).

They keep emailing me to say mine has reached its end of life and needs to be replaced - and yet funnily enough it still works while all these smart meters don’t

Does everyone know they’re not real? I’m not suggesting they are real, only that for all I know the quality of these fakes might be convincing.
Whether this story is “overblown” or not is subjective I guess but the victim’s being “creeped out” does seem like actual harm to me

The headline frames this as if levelling up is useless, rather than it was a slogan that the Tories stole and then did absolutely nothing to fulfill

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At the last election, the tory party changed their twitter account display-name and profile-picture to pretend to be the “Fact Check UK” account. They have no integrity. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/19/tories-tweet-anti-labour-posts-under-factcheckuk-brand
Edit: to be clear, I do think the potential for deepfake misinfo is concerning. But the Tories can absolutely fuck off about it

4000 parents is still basically nothing

Ban all religious schools tbh

This is what the Bank of England intended when it raised the interest rate right?

Peep Show also notable I think for how many failed attempts there have been to adapt i

I don’t think you can say either the US or UK office is better than the other, they’re too different

Councils need to provide public transport, and support walking and cycling

And a peephole

Stupid cunt reveals banal fact about self

Britain’s prime minister? Asian. London’s mayor? Asian. Scotland’s first minister? Asian. His main opponent? Asian. As for the probable next chairman of the BBC, he isn’t Cornish.

Extremely weird of the author to use Cornish here, I am sure that identity has always been underrepresented in British high society