Ben Thompson

Still got mine (well from 2000)

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Nope that’s a 6 figure salary

I don’t work for any part of the government - earn a 6 fire salary and I agree with the anon opinion and have seen plenty of evidence that backs him up.

But then again I actually do research before making a comment because I don’t like making a fool of myself

Minimum wage as a salary is £24,000 ish - that’s a 5 figure salary

Either that or he’s read Count zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive recently and gone hmm may solve a lot of potential legal issues if the Ai isn’t in any country

I was actually trying to think why 2027 was possible and 2026 not and at the could you avoid an election side of things

after that it’s a matter of delegation which may or may not work.

The reason you can't be both mayor and MP is because the mayor is the Police Commissioner.

Remove the Police Commissioner part of the job and Andy could potentially double job until the next mayoral election.

They should have quietly just got on with it. I really can’t fathom how bad this Labour Government has been at politics - I know Starmer wasn’t a politician but even I wouldn’t have been this incompetent

I will never understand the desire to talk about it before they’ve quietly released it to the point 80% of people have already used it.

I like the idea of it but that’s because I’ve worked around Europe where the user story for confirm who someone is is - ask for their id, job done next stage

What have the Dutch done (recently) to deserve such an cruel and unusual punishment

Spock in the The Immunity Syndrome - Original ST, Season 2 Episode 18.

Yes the 60s really were a different world...

What is this white stuff people are talking about.

For reasons I’ve never grasped where I live has its own microclimate, you can have 6 inches of snow outside town and not a single flake around here

Weird what you pick up on - Our Price was white text on a Red Background.

Costs money

Especially as the sole reason they will have switched to the Green party is to keep their seat in the next election....

Oh you could just go to the strictly forum on digitalspy and find out for free

They haven't a chance in the 2029 election campaign unless they deliver something.

I'm very anti Farage but I'm not voting for 4 more years of nothing being done and shifting from budget crisis to budget crisis.

The BBC rather encouraged Trump though with their apology...

Painless to add her to your council tax though, and the oyster card is worth the slight faff

Hislop is utterly none technical - he wouldn’t understand the first piece of detail

Got to say if the 1st half 2026 is $4.3bn I suspect the year total is going to be $8bn max...

people are starting to see Chatgpt for what it is

What's the difference between normal coffee and a Normal Coffee. I spy a trick most people will fall for and it's actually not real Coffee

That could well be it - I wonder if Kent is a better name when selling to both overseas students and the home office than Greenwich is.

Given the news about Greenwich and Kent today I went searching for his viewpoint and was confused as to my inability to find him. So thank for confirming it wasn't me being an idiot

The reversal of NI should be 3p on base rate income tax. Implemented last year reversing the WFA and it would have been hard for OAPs to argue against it...

The past isn’t imagined, but it is likely to be a number of different happy events all merged into one in a way that never actually existed

A lot of the hotels were the go to places in say the 1980s-2010 and have simply not kept up with the times.

Add on nostalgia and the fact memories are fluid (so things that happened years ago feel more recent) and you can see why an ancient hotel now used for asylum seekers may upset older people

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I suspect you will enjoy - hard to believe Ed is even more cynical than you and I are..

Although interestingly when I was at CDG last month - there was a big banner for CDG Express which is due to open in 2027.

The Slow Death Of Heathrow Express - London Reconnections The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Ca...

See www.londonreconnections.com/2023/the-slo...

Basically it makes a profit and has permission to run until 2028 after that things may change

I would have gone for 3p on income tax while keeping the WFA for all - that would make the poorest pensioners better off but everyone over £20,000 or so paying a bit more tax