🚨NEW: Vacancies for graduate roles has now halved in a year after Rachel Reeves increased the cost for businesses to hire young people through minimum wage increases [@Telegraph]

The IRA believed it was worth dying to be treated as legitimate combatants after murdering innocent women and children, except when they were shot at, when they believed they were civilians. It's obviously very helpful to compare the plight of PA activists to mass murderers.

If they are willing to die for their cause, that's very noble. It'll probably have no effect on govt policy, but neither should govt stand in the way and deny people their protest. To die for a cause one believes in is very noble, I hope they think it worthwhile.

Their own hands. A hunger strike is entirely on the hands of the people doing it, that's sort of the point. This govt has already declared its full support for vulnerable people being killed by the state, I'm not sure why willing participants will move it.

The bit I don't understand - Great Houses and palaces in europe were huge because they were small towns, with dozens or hundreds of people living there. Offices, courtiers, tradesmen, servants, etc. These days no one does that, so what on earth is all that space used for?

They're visually stunning, but otherwise I just hate the sequels. What do you mean, the whole Republic navy got wiped and now it's a total rerun of the originals, down to a third attempt at the same superweapon? KOTOR is right there, with great characters and interesting plots!

Britain doesn't have a low wage problem, per se, it has a "high property cost, extremely progressive taxes, and low productivity" problem. Wage rises flow directly to property costs because we're about 5m homes short, and taxes stifle higher earners/compress real incomes.

My timeline has had another of those resets where it's back to being US R-W politics and clickbait. Getting extremely frustrating.

What kind of nihilism casts aside this tradition from our political system?

So long as they keep Capita in charge of the draft recruiting I'm feeling pretty safe, to be honest. I'll be whistling Bing Crosby hits in the wasteland before they've responded to my application.

The Garden of Eden was actually in Doggerland. A fertile, river-fed plain lost forever to a great flood. Joseph of Arimathea brings the Holy Grail (and BCP) to this mist-shrouded land to mark where it all started 🥹

Note that a graduate in late 20s earning £30k pays a marginal rate of 37%: income tax + NI + loan repayment. Someone in late 60s earning £30k pays income tax at 20%. That’s all. And they’ll have a c£12k state pension.

So Labour have passed laws to expel their political opponents from the second chamber of Parliament, flooded Parliament with their own appointees, cancelled elections they were likely to lose, and are trying to abolish trial by jury. Imagine if this were an Eastern European state

Personally, I would prioritise the victims.

"We have inherited the British system, and you see how grievously they have harmed themselves. They say, just nationalise. Oh well, just redistribute wealth. Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak. It sounds wonderful at election time..." Lee Kuan Yew, August 16th, 1981.

Besides "more money", teachers, parents, and left-leaning politicians would reject pretty much every other private sector solution: - Longer hours - Way more homework - Lots more exams - Fast track to exclusion for disruption - Selective entry - Hiring unqualified teachers Etc

If you banned private schools, rich parents would increase competition for housing in areas with already-excellent state schools. A parent may be willing to spend £35k on their child's education, they're pretty unlikely to spend 665k to ensure parity for the other 19/20 kids.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. -C.S. Lewis

This seems like too cold a perspective. Children need fantasy to make sense of the world and to console themselves in the face of its harshest elements. That's why we have Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the UN Security Council. https://t.co/zbsnrnX38z

City of London keeps telling developers ‘yes you can build that skyscraper but you have to put a free Roman temple museum in the basement’, ‘yes build it but it needs a free viewing platform on the 58th floor’. And it’s gradually becoming quite a good day out