Thomas Elliott

Ooh, it’s that last sentence that made something click for me.

I would add that Disco is not exceptionally long by gaming standards. Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate, Red Dead 2… yes, those are part-time jobs.

(though you may find yourself making the time once you get sucked in!)

I was going to make the same comment. Of course, there is too much excellent art out there for any one lifetime, but IMV too many people have completely cut themselves off from a whole medium!

Non-gamers can still carve out a space for exceptional games.

Thank you for a bit of outer London representation (where people with kids tend to actually live!)

I don't think licensing is the right approach but I do think that sellers have a moral responsibility to do a bit of due diligence on their customers, especially with more complex pets. When we adopted our parrot, we had a home assessment and an interview with the rescue charity.

Absolutely huge for the Skong community

... after 14 years of life under the Government they wanted

I wonder what the name recognition of Javier Milei is among the general public?

UK launches review into state pension age Move announced as government also appoints commission to look at boosting retirement savings

"According to the government, almost half of the working-age population — about 18mn people — are not saving anything for their retirement. Only one in five of the self-employed are saving into a pension, down from half in the late 1990s."

"Yikes" doesn't cover it!

Am I just a heavy sleeper or was it not as bad as feared? I was braced for a proper thunderstorm!

Trump and Maga are no longer the same thing A summer of splits shows what post-Trump conservatism will look like

"We have to entertain the notion that Trump is a moderating influence on a movement that will become much more doctrinal once he is gone. He approaches the world through personal relations, which are malleable, not ideas, which aren’t. on.ft.com/46eU139

Not sure! The article says "pay", I paraphrased as salary.

Article says he's donating his salary to his charity, to be fair.

I have definitely had it in my head that a million million is somehow a legitimate "alternative" definition of billion. Until I think: no, it definitely isn't!

So this is interesting.

Well that's a relief. I do tend to assume the worst of anyone with a checkmark on X these days.

The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le... Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth

Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.

But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.

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Ah fair

Funded childcare hours tbh?

What are the rules about this? If a journalist is WhatsApping with an MP, say, is it generally accepted that they would not want comments made in that context to be attributed?

I wouldn't pay a penny for it, but I admit that I stuck it on while doing the washing up yesterday. Probably not a sustainable business model...

If the Central Line programme is fully funded, what else explains all the delays? The reduced timetable was an emergency measure and was only supposed to be temporary.

This is, for me, where the Nazi/fascist parallels work best. ‘Good’ people did nothing as the awfulness escalated because they were justifiably terrified of getting their heads kicked in or killed. It’s about comparing similar points in the process as opposed to comparing end days with early ones.

I always thought that the exclusion of Microsoft from FAANG back in the day demonstrated a blind spot.

Dinosaur mini-golf! I've not heard of that before? Where's that?

The strange thing about Walthamstow, having lived there, is that there is a very small area - basically one street, Orford Road - that is properly gentrified?

(Most yuppies I know have instead settled in nearby Leyton or Leytonstone)

Ah, got it. 😉

To... reject every single FOI request?

Is Central Line Improvement Programme already fully funded?

London has expressed disappointment in the lack of funding for infrastructure projects. Is it better news on London council funding, then?

But, strikingly, absolutely nothing on what the Conservatives would do for public services; what would they cut and allow to deteriorate further?