Ewan

Should replace the TV licence with a levy on internet service providers )phased in over time). Also fund a reformed OfCom, give the BBC a mandate for online content creation, public service duty to major streamers and social platforms.

No, access to a thesaurus makes one a competent, skilled, accomplished, clever, talented, enjoyable, kind, moral writer.

Gloaming?

This morning's Desert Island Discs is totally compelling. Not aware of ever having clocked Dwayne Fields, but what a journey.

That is extraordinary on BBC radio 4 PM just now - over the past 10 years CPI has increased by 39% but house prices have increased 43% so house prices haven't actually increased, really. Totally mind-blowing.

Although, obvs. wage growth hasn't kept up.

Five-sixths of people don't know that immigration fell from peak levels. There is much more coverage of asylum.

The BBC coverage does include these figures - very briefly - but the framing/summary is dominated by the asylum numbers.

White space, page breaks, section breaks, tables, diagrams - there was a reason why typesetters didn't create docs that were just a single continuous stream of text and sub headings.

Controversial. They are often very bad for accessibility. But I personally find long HTML documents hard to read or retain. I would be less committed to PDF if W3 had better guidelines for long form or technical writing.

Lego catalogues were *the best*. The kids these days don't know what they're missing.

Generational too? We try to do a couple of meat free meals a week and err towards certain meat free options (meat free pizzas, veggie chicken nuggets, veggie mince for some meals). None of which involves us sacrificing anything really.

Class is about consciousness: it's a social construct, not the same thing as socio-economic status.

So what class you are is as much about what class other people think you are, or who accepts you for what you are.

Which makes it all rather fiddly.

Such a bourgeois comment.

Honestly I only really tweeted that because I like quoting Pirates of the Carribbean.

If you write more on it, the piece will definitely be even better of you quote Captain Barbosa too.

Generally if you're next in line to the throne there's quite the incentive to present it as actual rules... perhaps not in this case.

a man with a beard says the code is more what you 'd call guidelines than actual rules . Alt: An animated image of the character Captain Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean. He's saying a line from the film: "the pirate code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules" .

The hereditary principles has always been more of what you'd call guidelines than actual rules, no?

Similar energy: bsky.app/profile/ewan...

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National Theatre to stream The Importance of Being Earnest for free Max Webster’s production was first seen in 2024

*screams with joy!*

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Proportion of non-pensioner below-middle income families in different tenure types: GB/UK

We’ve seen a *massive* swing away from homeownership into expensive private renting.

Mortgaged families dropped from 30% to 17% of Unsung Britain, while private renters nearly doubled. Almost as many people live with parents (15%) as own with a mortgage (17%).

I sometimes ponder whether, in the long run, we carry on as now so eventually a freddo costs £50 and on, or else what the point is that the government goes "righto, time to start over".

My five year old watched a bit and at the end, when the competitor took his helmet off, said firmly "see, they're not a skeleton"

Assuming it's on FT Edit of course. I'm not made of money.

When you write that piece I would love to read it.

Excellent piece, happily it echoes exactly what I tweeted yesterday 😁 bsky.app/profile/ewan...

The news story I had an actual interest in was something like the 70th down on the BBC's website!

"...In particular, it does not make clear whether the product is entirely free of milk, or only that the milk content is low"

From the summary: "Even insofar as the trade mark can be regarded as referring to a characteristic quality of the products (namely, the characteristic of being milk-free), it is doing so in an oblique and obscure way and is certainly not doing so “clearly”."

So I figure that the Supreme Court probably aren't just having a weird one and there's some technical point of law that binds their decision. So I looked up the summary of the decision:

supremecourt.uk/cases/press-...

Can't have dark satanic mills because of woke.

Pretty sure this is a typo "Appointed in December 2025"