Paula Surridge

I think at this stage they are all just trying to make the player with the first dropped catch feel better.

Such a shame after a good start...some joke here about the power play I'm sure 😀

You'd expect better from a Labour government than making all this news on a Sunday.

Wish British politics would just let me watch cricket in peace

I am just hoping the endless rain since the New Year isn't payment for last summer but a deposit on a dry cricket season this year.

Even the motorway (M5) near us is awful in the inside lane. Very dangerous at those speeds. And coming off the slip road is rapidly becoming a canyon.

The over told fairy tale.

I've been trying to work out how this could ever be implemented. When do you become childless or does everyone default to being childless until they have a child. Which in tax terms is basically the same as child benefit?

Wow, expected it would be done before I woke up. Heading for quite a finish.

It is a truth universally acknowledged...that you will come to hate whatever was forced on you to study in far more depth than is necessary*

*Macbeth perhaps the exception here, I enjoyed restudying it with my son last year though he was much more insightful than I ever was.

The difference is people expected it of Johnson, until it went too far they were more than happy to overlook it. They expected something different from Starmer. Johnson could have had many new pairs of glasses but for Starmer it only took one.

I'm honestly not sure about dreams, I feel like they are visual but it could be my brain making sense later. But if you describe a scene to me I can 'imagine' it in a sort of practical way in that I know what it would look like if I saw it but I don't see it in my head.

This is also I think why I can't read 'literary' fiction where the words are aiming to paint pictures of the scene, but I get through lots of character driven novels.

Yes I can describe things but I can't bring up any kind of image. Not even of my husband or children. I can describe a photo I may have seen of them if I have seen it lots of times, like he is wearing a blue top but I can't see it I've just remembered the details as words.

Need to cut these inexperienced outsider Reform MPs some slack while they learn how the system works.

This is me but I had no idea until relatively recently when I read about it via Twitter. Just assumed that people were using metaphors and noone actually sees images.

If Badenoch didn't want to also paint herself as close to Trump.

I am it seems already fed up hearing about the up-coming by election and its candidates. I'm not sure if this just reflects the reasons I am currently off work or if it actually is a reflection of how tedious commentary on British politics feels currently.

People like to find their 'tribe' so yes I think this is a highly plausible (though difficult to test) mechanism. Which could also explain 'education' effects and effects in occupational groups.

To throw in a further spanner, I also found attitudes to monarchy seemed to sit there too. I used to think of them as 'moral' issues but this is not quite the right word. They were also all issues that sat outside party lines until recently at least

Not that I am aware of but I have found issues like this do often 'hang' together in data analysis. Hard to know exactly what drives it as we don't have great data but abortion also tends to be in the same space.

It could be a consistent position underpinned by religion.

It would be much higher, 8-9% (more perhaps depending on how the DKs are treated)

And given all of that, it is a pollster that usually shows Reform a bit higher and Labour a bit lower than most others. I wouldn't be cheering very much if I were a Reform activist in the seat.

My Gran also died of it so we thought we knew what was to come. I'm sorry you also went through it.

Right now access to some support would be nice, can't even get that 😞

Except an offer of medication. Or perhaps some seated yoga 🤬

Relatedly, mental health services locally are appalling. No wonder so many people end up in crisis. You get passed to the only NHS service in the county, who have already referred you back to the GP because needs are too complex. If you can't afford to seek out private help there's nothing...

Or reflect that women are more likely to be in occupations where AI use might be more difficult

Apologies for such a personal and off topic thread but just needed to say it 'out loud'.