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I don't know about that. Channel 4, Network Rail, Land Registry and half of Nat West Bank have all been mooted as a potential sale in recent years.

Not that I am aware of. As you say, the Opposition parties can call for a vote of no confidence in the Government, but they will lose, as the Government have a majority.

Similarly, individual constituencies cannot recall their MP unless they have been found guilty of a wrongdoing that fulfils certain criteria [0]

[0] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05...

A solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

Badum tss

I have absolutely no medical background (or knowledge) but I find it baffling how people drop dead from a heart attack without any medical interventions.

I received an over 40 MOT (a few years back) and despite being overweight and slightly above cholesterol was told I was low risk - it seems to be if you don't smoke or drink you're in the clear. Similarly, I just did the Framingham test and got a 2.2 % 10-year risk of MI or death for this patient, which is nice.

However, it all seems so hit and miss. You'd think there should be a way to screen on a regular (yearly) basis to detect for risk factors.

While that is true, house price inflation has massively outstripped wages. For example, my very first house in 2000 cost £105k. Today that same house would cost £220k. Therefore, what option do people have but to overextend themselves?

I'd say the best way to help the unemployed is to equip them with skills. There's no shortage of unskilled, minimum wage jobs in Britain, but it's hardly a life.

The Bank of England is raising rates to try and dampen demand, meanwhile later today the Government are having a "mini-budget" where they will cut taxes to try and boost demand.

Mr Left Hand, may I introduce you to Mr Right Hand.

In Britain alone the Government has borrowed half a trillion pounds (roughly 25% of GDP) in 2020-21. Most of that went into the hands of normal people via furlough (paying people 75% of salary to stay at home during Covid), support for the self-employed and loans (up to £50k) for small businesses.

It would be fascinating to see a study into where this money ended up. As you say, it should have found its way into the economy and in turn the pockets of large companies/the Government which could use it for capital investment, but in reality the country is crumbling.

I'm going to buck the trend here and say that I'm actually using Facebook more than in the past. I am member of a few groups, which are quite niche, but genuinely interest me. I always browse by Most Recent and by checking every day I know I don't have to browse past posts which are more than a day old. FB does a decent job of notifying me when my friends post, so I can see all of those via notifications.

While I do get ads and suggested pages, these don't seem intrusive with the above approach. Maybe its just me?!?!

I like Starbucks and I like NFTs. But which one is best? There's only one way to find out... FIGHT.

That sounds amazing

This should be a badge of honour for banks and investment companies.

"We are so socially responsible, we're banned in Texas"

What could possibly go wrong with placing someone with alcohol or drug addiction in a hotel room full of easily removable furniture?

The challenge of course is scale. It is very easy to build a high powered and fast charging batteries as a one-off in a lab. Trying to produce a million a month is an altogether different proposition.

Yep, I remember dialling that number and holding my phone up to the telly!

With inflation running at circa 10% and most people only having received a circa 3% payrise this year, the easiest way to make sure your salary keeps up with inflation is to jump roles and take a decent uplift in pay.

You missed a trick. You're supported to say it is Murphy's Law and then someone will come along and tell you it is actually called Cunningham's Law, thereby proving Cunningham's Law.

He missed a trick at the end of his answer to "Who would you invite to your dream dinner party?"

Exactly. Here is a story from 2010 where a storyline about a character's bi polar on a popular UK soap saw a doubling in the number of young people seeking help.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-10004491

The bizarre situation in the UK is that most companies will not post a salary on their job ads, but recruitment firms, advertising the same role, will post a salary.

This means I will always go for the ad with a salary and the company will have to pay the recruiter their finder's fee.

Lots of people with anecdotes of how useless/disastrous big consultancies are.

It's the old "nobody ever get fired for buying IBM". It is easy to justify this kind of outsourcing decision, these are multi-billion dollar companies and they must be that successful for a reason. Right? Whereas if you do something in house and it goes titsup, then the first question will be "why didn't you get an experienced consultancy to do it?"

So my question is how do we influence senior management away from the mentality of employing consultants as they default decision and instead look at all the options fairly.

Does cable have an ad free tier? This for me is the advantage Netflix has. Tempt people in with a cheap (or even free) ad supported tier and then offer the chance to upgrade to an ad free experience. Similar to YouTube Premium.

It does, unlike you try to sue people and your company is plastered all over the news

Have they tried turning it off and turning it back on again?

I always find it strange that people add salt to their meal before when tasting it - almost as if it is a habit rather than a way to enhance flavour.

What sort of exercise were you doing fasted? Did you find it impacted your performance?

Where do you get your seniors from in 5-10 years time, if you've outsourced all your entry level roles?

Interesting comment about singles. Is that because you felt the massive amount of effort you put in to a single substantially increased your chances of injury compared to doing reps?

I wonder how many have been ordered by people looking to flip these cars while they still have delivery mileage?