I think “considered” is probably doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I’m pretty sure someone came up with it, maybe even Boris, and then he repeated it a bunch of times in front of semi-relevant people in a jokey-jokey way followed by an “…unless?”
I imagine nobody with any level of responsibility in actually producing such a raid considered anything apart from how to most politely say no to the prime minister.
Based on the article it’s still going to be something you have to request, so you should still be able to have your current setup unless your company gets so many requests it decides to standardise on 4long instead of 5.
This is true. It’s still an awful lot more flexibility though. And of course as none of this legislation is written yet, it could lean either way while enabling both.
I’m a big four day week stan and I never expected to see it pushed during this parliament. Obviously the end result is going to be heavily dependent on what they end up implementing, but this is potentially huge for many, many people.
If you’re a gamer then I’d strongly recommend you get a playlist of bangers from your favourite games. They tend to be high energy, low on distracting lyrics, and if you’ve played the game any amount then they’ve might have gotten associated with a “locked in” brain state so you feel like whatever task you’re achieving is analogous to gaming.
My playlist has tracks from Streets of Rage 2, Golden Sun, Pokémon, Smash Bros and Super Hexagon amongst others.
Too real. We’ve had a stomach bug tearing through our house and half a hour after chundering all over my floor I’m getting “dad, I’m hungry, what can I have to eat?”
Forgive me, child, for not immediately refilling your super soaker of a stomach.
I ran one on the other place if you want some ideas on how to format it. There’s also a lot of good books in the suggestions lists.
In the end I stopped because it felt like participation rates dwindled fast, but it did a good job at highlighting an interesting range of books.
Sorry to get you excited. If it’s any help, they do absolutely leave it open to return after the book time skip, they included a load of stuff that only makes sense in context of the last books.
I’d definitely give it a try! The concept is strong enough to be that I’d even consider a full reboot, although my dream is another soft reboot where the canon is left intact and we just follow a new set of main characters, and our old favourites might pop up occasionally. Having seen Amazon do great stuff with the tail end of The Expanse I think they have the chops to make it work.
Can’t believe the only strategy they have left is to buy pensioner votes at all cost.
Manifestos aren’t due out for a week or two yet.
Institute for Government has you covered.
This is death spiral shit. I probably look on national service more favourably than the average person and I know you cannot just throw it out as a desperate Hail Mary without building a huge amount of consensus.
I’d heard lava tubes pitched as one of the more straightforward ways of building a moon base, fascinating to learn that this would actually be a return to form for human dwellings.
Humans: we just like living in lava tubes.
Yup. Have put it down to the kids being at nursery and bringing back every cough and sniffle. It’s wrecked my wife’s sleeping because we’ve a baby who wants to feed when he’s feeling under the weather and he’s had a cold for what feels like weeks.
Master Chef has been on telly for 34 years, this is disgusting Loyd Grossman erasure.
If anyone wants to do some play-money betting on who wins, I’ve got a prediction market here.
I thought it was a nice first episode, watching Sophie try to hop across a lake was a highlight.
Did anyone else think that Gary was going to turn out to be the scarecrow and the boat gorilla would be a deliberate bluff?
I’ve set up a play-money prediction market if people want to join in.
IMO this is within Labour’s grasp, it’s in the range of their recent by-election wins and given it was Skidmore who took it from them, one has to speculate that a local MP of nearly 20 years, standing down in protest of the government, isn’t going to encourage the party faithful out to vote for his replacement.
This prediction market has May at 50%, and that’s mainly because I keep buying it off he back of news like this. Seems like a lot of people are May doubters.
Reasons I think May is the most likely candidate are:
There used to be a Twitter account called The Strange Log which regularly posted things like this. Looks like it’s inactive now, though.