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Hard to overstate how much Britons love cheap stuff, especially cheap expensive stuff
Now look at auto trade -- the heart of the China shock globally. The swing there has been extreme for the UK, notably on the import side after 2020 (and specifically after 2024)
(I guess Rover was selling a lot of cars in China in 2014!)
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“2000s lad culture” was not in fact wearing high heeled boots, skinny jeans, jewellery, eyeliner, and hairspray while trying to start a global love revolution based off having skim read Noam Chomsky. Brand was of course specifically supported as an alternative vision of manliness ensibles of the day.
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Can we pedestrianise Dean Street next please? Literally no reason to drive down it and it’s full of restaurants that could make excellent use of the road for outside dining
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Couldn't agree more. MPs are legislators - it is literally their job to scrutinise proposed laws.
The fact that some start pearl clutching when the obvious is pointed out to them is very concerning.
The fact that some start pearl clutching when the obvious is pointed out to them is very concerning.
Okay so everyone is rightly talking about how this is a bad law, but I also want to talk about how this is a serious problem with how all of our MPs understand their role. They don't understand this is not the West Wing, this is the UK and our MPs roles are different.
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There's a surprising number of people in British public life whose names sound phonetically Chinese. Recent mix-ups in my household related to Andrew Ma, Rupert Lo and Katie Lam.
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This tweet reminded me there’s a largely forgotten sitcom set in a Micheal restraint kitchen starring Alan Davies called Whites that Matt King wrote about his time as a chef. It’s very underrated
Matt King's actual hiring for Super Hans is another one of these ridiculous 'boomer recruitment tales' in which he was approached after an Edinburgh Festival set by the agent who thought he'd be perfect for the role. He had zero acting experience and had been in a chef in Aus.
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Assuming this is their retail arm only (I haven’t checked the numbers) that’s about £750,000 per store and about £2,000 per store per day, and which… isn’t a lot. Especially when you think think of how many customers they get
Tesco profits shot up from £883m to £2.3bn.
An extra £1.4bn+ in profit while families STRUGGLE to afford basic groceries.
It’s not a cost-of-living crisis, it’s a cost-of-greed crisis—backed by government INACTION! 🛑
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Completely agree. Imagine if Ferrari signed Schuey in 1996, kept Jean Alesi in the second seat and let them race each other every weekend. Williams/McLaren would have thrashed them for the rest of the decade as they stumbled over each other
Here is where I stand on the Lewis v Charles debate, and I made this point in my commentary on @5liveSport on Sunday in Mexico; make Lewis #1 Ferrari driver. Sort it out. Make it clear. Ends all debate. Lewis will deliver for Ferrari. If they back him 100%
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Damon’s getting a lot of flack in the replies but he’s spot on. What has Leclerc done to warrant number 1 status against Lewis? Man is on the verge of overtaking Schumacher for most Ferrari starts and has *nine* wins (fewer than Damon despite starting more races!)
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I didn't do a history post yesterday, but all that "Guy Fawkes was the last person to enter Parliament with good intentions etc etc" midwit guff is so odiously ignorant of how much Britain & Ireland had been scarred by sectarian violence and how a successful Catholic plot to murder hundreds of people was the fulfilment of every single piece of paranoid propaganda used to justify the murder of innocent Catholics. People really don't get how a successful plot would be the worst thing for Catholics in Britain. There would be none left. They would have been wiped out.
@2D0XPS A successful gunpowder plot would have seen sectarian violence in Britain on a level that makes the Thirty Years War look moderate.
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She’s also scheming to overthrow her master and if you’re playing chaotic good it’s super easy to manipulate and kill them both. Might makes right is a recipe for fighting and instability
in KOTOR 1 you meet this Twi'lek Sith who has this whole tragic backstory as a slave and she wants to free the slaves, and you basically can completely shatter her spirit by simply asking “why haven’t you done that yet?”
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Just found a really great and bargain priced cruise in 2028 going to places I’ve never been before but I’m not gonna be able to do it because I won’t have enough annual leave and my excellent mortgage rate will have ended by then 😭
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