The swapping NIC into IT seems both an inevitability and indeed a good policy outcome. Given that NIC is just IT with a moustache on retirees should not be paying lower levels of tax on pension income than workers are
The definition of something being a terror incident is it being done in the name of an ideology though, which is presumably why the police have said so far they’ve no reason to suspect it’s terror-related, that could of course change with evidence gathering
I think in general given what he’s managed at both Brighton and Union Saint Gilloise it bodes pretty well for your future even if you don’t make it over the line this season (though as a total neutral I’d love to see a team outside of the old firm winning)
It can be much less serious things as well, for example I’ve only ever known airports with the level of security they’ve had post 9/11, from my perspective that’s how they’ve always been!Even if I know verifiably that’s not the case, it’s difficult to imagine a time you’ve not actually lived through
But say when you’re looking at polling data of an entire cohort on whether they want a United Ireland there’s some usefulness to think about the lived experiences of that cohort as a whole.
Which is why I said there’s some usefulness to it at a cohort level but not individually? Random example, someone of my age in NI has no lived memory of the troubles, they’ve grown up after it, someone of my parents age can remember the whole thing. Now you shouldn’t then apply that to individuals
That pervades all parts of lives though! What colour are your Santa decorations? How much salary do you think someone should save for an engagement ring? Etc.In general I’d say at a cohort level there is some usefulness to understanding the time period it grew up in,but not particularly individually
It depends on the context it’s being used in. If I said my parents are boomers that would be simply true given that it encompasses their respective years of birth. It’s simply easier than saying they were born between certain years in the 20th century.
What is the point of Britain having so many abandoned overseas territories if they can’t be used as holding pens for people who play music out loud on their phones in public? We used to be a country Stephen 😔
How many election defeats do you think it’ll take the conservatives to get out of this intellectual rabbit hole? I mean of course the real problem is that the next defeat could be so large as to kill them anyway
It’s probably the sorts of places I’d go, not because I support the ideology! But just because places of historical importance are interesting. When I was in Taiwan I went around the preserved house of Chiang Kai Shek which was a bit eerie
Incredible that the chart runs up to what May 2024 and has them at just above 25%? Who’d have thought that they had another 10 points to go at that point in time?
Look I really love you MMTers, please for the love of god understand that as a nation that imports a bunch of stuff not tanking the value of your currency with respect to others is pretty important
It is a classic example of people’s short term greed screwing an industry in the long term. Sure people have made stupid profits in the immediate term, but the net result is going to be their industry getting absolutely regulated into the floor, and frankly they deserve it to be
The grenfell stuff is totally understandable, the leasehold stuff is just madness. You logically need a system for common area management, sure people will then cream a slight profit on that. But raising service charges by 100s of % over a 5-10 year period is pure pisstaking
