Rob Worth

Stay close to the candles. The stairs can be treacherous.

4. Base jumping
All of which gets you a discounted ticket.

I naively assumed this already happens. After all, it is 2025 and it would seem obvious that changes to roads, temporary or permanent, would be electronically published for years. Silly me.

The Resulture - Ed Straw An excerpt from Stand & Deliver: A Design For Successful Government (2014) Ed Straw   Three separation of powers are taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many const...

Ed Straw suggested a 4th branch of government: the “resulture”. Independent of the legislature it ensures every piece of legislation has predicted outcomes, checks them, and has the power to strike down a law that missed its objectives or had unintended consequences.

www.edstraw.com/the-resulture/

I’m sure that there are technical and institutional barriers but it would still be good. I can take my mobile number or domain name to another provider. Why not add another layer of numbers that are portable? IIRC mobile numbers weren’t portable once upon a time. Things can change if there is demand

It would be great if bank account numbers and sort codes could be decoupled from banks so you could take it with you when you switched like mobile phone numbers.

That is interesting but I’ve never owned an umbrella.

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Turn around from the “park and palace” picture and you’d be facing my old school!

There’s gonna be a queue up there!

This.

I rewatched First Blood recently expecting the action romp I recalled as a teenager and was surprised by the heart rending tale of a man who gave everything to his country, desperate for connection, who is abandoned & persecuted by society. And only one person dies & it’s not Rambo’s fault.

As well as “schtum” I’ve inherited “schlep” and “nosh” from my dad, who is a Londoner like me and we’re definitely not Jewish.

Tell me one of the guys was playing the bagpipes! 🤞

Usage varies between American and British English.

In US English it is common to use an unspaced em dash—like this. UK English will typically use a spaced en dash in similar situations – like this.

Both AmEng and BritEng use the en dash for ranges.

“Let’s watch and find out” is a very common utterance in our house!

A thought provoking analysis. I’m mostly in favour but I worry that they will do it right (see NHS IT) so I read your work with interest.

However the fact that other countries have ID cards *is* relevant. Because if no one else had ID systems then those against would be the first to point that out.

Thomas Cruise
Richard Van Dyke
Elizabeth Grable
Harold Belafonte
Francis Sinatra

I’ve never had products on my hair at the barber. But when they offer, “Do you want stuff on your hair?” I wish they would sell it a little better. “Stuff”? No, thanks!

And the dog won’t obey spoken commands. He only responds to bellows.

And there’s still a queue

And add to that all the inane phone-pinging chit chat on the class and year group parents WhatsApp groups. 🙄

“Freeze a jolly good fellow”
– cryogenic storage

Nice touch to have the minister waving union flags that are upside down. So many "patriots" don't know the difference.

Sign in the Royal Festival Hall where the signs for the Blue Side are coloured yellow.

And one of my favourites in the Royal Festival Hall where the signs on the Blue Side are yellow.

Lift sign with bottom floor listed at the top and top floor at the bottom.

It’s pretty common.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 47% full.

And in Britain the money borrowed by the government in 1833 to pay the slave owners was only finally paid off in 2015.

The Sunshine Boys
When Harry Met Sally
Withnail and I

I see your Damien Grammaticas, and raise you a Kurt Barling.