Jon Neale

There's about 300,000 older people in care homes (and increasing over time), so £1,000 per week is c.£16bn per year, which would maybe require an extra 2% on basic rate tax (or 10% if it's funded via higher rate tax)? (using HMRC's ready reckoners, NI impacts would be higher)

Drop down menu with different currencies, including "SDR (Special Drawing Right)"

No, I'm not a sovereign nation so am not paying for this book with IMF special drawing rights...

ONS has published stats setting out when people use their credit cards for face-to-face transactions this week.

London seems to be quite different to the rest of the UK, with much more spending happening at night.

Guessing Londoners go out more in the evening?

www.ons.gov.uk/releases/pro...

This was such a great column but now spending time thinking about dogs and cats :(

Either AI needs to get much better (and I can stop paying Amazon money, getting my books from ChatGPT), or Amazon needs to get a handle on this quickly

Not been all of them, but they seem to follow a similar format, from the first line of the intro where people always start a "journey", they're "born into" something, and similar errors in each book.

Picture of book by Jack C Cambron, "Scott Bessent", but not really. AI generated?

Here's the biography of Scott Bessent (that isn't a picture of him is it?)

If I didn't know any better, would suggest these are all AI generated...this is not a good use of AI, and hopefully Amazon can deal with this quickly!

From a quick review of the "read sample" option on Amazon, they do appear to be following an amazingly similar format - thanks from the author, very adjective heavy paragraphs, and an amazing overlap with the wikipedia articles for their subject matter.

Amazing productivity from a new author, Jack C Cambron, who's released 50+ biographies on Amazon in September. Very diverse set of books, covering politicians, sportsmen, musicians.

Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth on a sunny day. Taken from the shopping centre

Maybe University of Luton since it's halfway between the two?

Ditto, been waiting ages. Nothing complicated either a few thousand £ from an old AVC.

CODswallop

Sign saying "Please don't place cups on my ledge. I've been looking pretty since the 12th Century and wish to remain that way, thank you"

I was good, put my coffee somewhere else.

Best office feature ever.

St Paul's Cathedral, London View from the south

View from St Mary Axe, looking towards Walkie Talkie and Lloygs Building

I really like the article, and would love to have done this, but think this is a different Jon Neale. My ancestors worked in the Birmingham brass trade, but no other connection between brum and me!

St Pauls catehdral at night

Squirrel on a wall

Royal Exchange at night, London

Royal Exchange this evening

Gosh, I seem to have acquired some followers. Do hope you're not expecting too much!

You all seem much higher quality than my followers over on twitter - if you're bots you're much more sophisticated than the other place :)

From Blackfriars...

Still here and thinking of moving here more, cos everyone else is

I'm here!