We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
I highly doubt that is anything to do with OSA. Haven't delivery services been doing this for ages as otherwise too easy for kids to order booze on Uber Eats. My guess that whatever is being flagged on that order is some mistake on the system.
I have no idea what procedures the UK uses in coin flips, but in the past I found it easy to control the outcome when flipping a coin. Most athletes could learn to do the same with a little practice.
....and 148,000 tourists arrived and 1600 babies were born
.....So don't worry nunu you might not see any of them......
I don't think that's a particularly good point. You're suggesting that only 64% of population increase is due to what demographers call "natural change". Indeed, once you better off against deaths, that proportion is going to look even more stark.
Of course, there will be many more legal immigrants (over 2000 per day on average).
.....I just read a post further down about Peter Kyle being useless because he left school without going to university. He had dyslexia which wasn't mentioned. Half the creatives in the advertising industry have dyslexia. The arrogance and entitlement of some of the posters here makes me cringe
The post wasn't about his being useless per se, but rather his qualifications/suitability as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
I have no idea what procedures the UK uses in coin flips, but in the past I found it easy to control the outcome when flipping a coin. Most athletes could learn to do the same with a little practice.
Are you saying that you are the world's greatest tosser?
....and 148,000 tourists arrived and 1600 babies were born
.....So don't worry nunu you might not see any of them......
I don't think that's a particularly good point. You're suggesting that only 64% of population increase is due to what demographers call "natural change". Indeed, once you better off against deaths, that proportion is going to look even more stark.
Of course, there will be many more legal immigrants (over 2000 per day on average).
.....I just read a post further down about Peter Kyle being useless because he left school without going to university. He had dyslexia which wasn't mentioned. Half the creatives in the advertising industry have dyslexia. The arrogance and entitlement of some of the posters here makes me cringe
The post wasn't about his being useless per se, but rather his qualifications/suitability as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
The manner in which politics has become almost the sole preserve of those who have done little else is a legitimate cause for concern.
And the current cabinet is even more of a monoculture than its predecessors.
Whatever next, former Tampax ad makers being Science Minister?
It’s how you end up with civil servants congratulating themselves on backing BritVolt which has “sensibly avoided excessive technical focus in its governance”.
....and 148,000 tourists arrived and 1600 babies were born
.....So don't worry nunu you might not see any of them......
I don't think that's a particularly good point. You're suggesting that only 64% of population increase is due to what demographers call "natural change". Indeed, once you better off against deaths, that proportion is going to look even more stark.
Of course, there will be many more legal immigrants (over 2000 per day on average).
.....I just read a post further down about Peter Kyle being useless because he left school without going to university. He had dyslexia which wasn't mentioned. Half the creatives in the advertising industry have dyslexia. The arrogance and entitlement of some of the posters here makes me cringe
The post wasn't about his being useless per se, but rather his qualifications/suitability as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
The manner in which politics has become almost the sole preserve of those who have done little else is a legitimate cause for concern.
And the current cabinet is even more of a monoculture than its predecessors.
Whatever next, former Tampax ad makers being Science Minister?
It’s how you end up with civil servants congratulating themselves on backing BritVolt which has “sensibly avoided excessive technical focus in its governance”.
If you carry on like this I will become increasingly convinced you are Big Dom.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
How about composting. We compost everything. Admittedly I have the space and a large compost area, but then I have a huge garden creating a lot of compost. If you have a small garden one bin should be enough. Our holiday home bin is only 1/3rd full. If you are hedge cutting it might be a challenge, but if you chop it small enough you should be able to get it in over a few weeks. It drops in volume quickly. If it is lawn cuttings get a mower with a mulcher (if a small lawn you probably don't need it). No waste and no need to fertilize the lawn.
I am always surprised by the number of garden waste bins around. Am I missing something?
You can't compost cut branches from trees and bushes, which is what I use our brown bin for. I also usually put grass clippings in there because in my experience they don't make great compost. In any case I've reduced the size of our lawn in recent years as a result of climate change and our drier summers so we don't have a lot of grass clippings these days.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
How about composting. We compost everything. Admittedly I have the space and a large compost area, but then I have a huge garden creating a lot of compost. If you have a small garden one bin should be enough. Our holiday home bin is only 1/3rd full. If you are hedge cutting it might be a challenge, but if you chop it small enough you should be able to get it in over a few weeks. It drops in volume quickly. If it is lawn cuttings get a mower with a mulcher (if a small lawn you probably don't need it). No waste and no need to fertilize the lawn.
I am always surprised by the number of garden waste bins around. Am I missing something?
You are.
I do compost. Both food waste, I have an wormery, and grass clippings but I cannot compost everything.
As you say yourself you have the space and a large area.
Every year I used the wormery stuff for my grown and put the worm wee on the garden.
This year has been dry so not so bad as the grass has not really been growing. Last year I was trimming my unwieldy bush and cutting my lawn weekly.
We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
We're not a police state - they're notably not omnipresent.
What we are becoming is a process state, where any legal activity gets continually more of a hassle. Which of course incentivises an increase in extra-legal activity.
Similar reason that so many high street shops are of dubious legality these days.
....and 148,000 tourists arrived and 1600 babies were born
.....So don't worry nunu you might not see any of them......
I don't think that's a particularly good point. You're suggesting that only 64% of population increase is due to what demographers call "natural change". Indeed, once you better off against deaths, that proportion is going to look even more stark.
Of course, there will be many more legal immigrants (over 2000 per day on average).
.....I just read a post further down about Peter Kyle being useless because he left school without going to university. He had dyslexia which wasn't mentioned. Half the creatives in the advertising industry have dyslexia. The arrogance and entitlement of some of the posters here makes me cringe
The post wasn't about his being useless per se, but rather his qualifications/suitability as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
The manner in which politics has become almost the sole preserve of those who have done little else is a legitimate cause for concern.
And the current cabinet is even more of a monoculture than its predecessors.
Whatever next, former Tampax ad makers being Science Minister?
It’s how you end up with civil servants congratulating themselves on backing BritVolt which has “sensibly avoided excessive technical focus in its governance”.
If you carry on like this I will become increasingly convinced you are Big Dom.
Big Dom is often right on the problems.
He is *always* wrong on the solutions.
The British Disease consists, in part, of worshiping generalists (preferably lawyers or accountants) and despising technical knowledge. Especially the idea that management should have technical knowledge of their domain.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
....and 148,000 tourists arrived and 1600 babies were born
.....So don't worry nunu you might not see any of them......
I don't think that's a particularly good point. You're suggesting that only 64% of population increase is due to what demographers call "natural change". Indeed, once you better off against deaths, that proportion is going to look even more stark.
Of course, there will be many more legal immigrants (over 2000 per day on average).
.....I just read a post further down about Peter Kyle being useless because he left school without going to university. He had dyslexia which wasn't mentioned. Half the creatives in the advertising industry have dyslexia. The arrogance and entitlement of some of the posters here makes me cringe
The post wasn't about his being useless per se, but rather his qualifications/suitability as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
The manner in which politics has become almost the sole preserve of those who have done little else is a legitimate cause for concern.
And the current cabinet is even more of a monoculture than its predecessors.
Whatever next, former Tampax ad makers being Science Minister?
It’s how you end up with civil servants congratulating themselves on backing BritVolt which has “sensibly avoided excessive technical focus in its governance”.
If you carry on like this I will become increasingly convinced you are Big Dom.
Big Dom is often right on the problems.
He is *always* wrong on the solutions.
The British Disease consists, in part, of worshiping generalists (preferably lawyers or accountants) and despising technical knowledge. Especially the idea that management should have technical knowledge of their domain.
There was a new podcast out with him on yesterday. One point he made that I thought was interesting was Singapore success is driven in no small part by the leaders long term focus on talent acquisition for these roles.
We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
We're not a police state - they're notably not omnipresent.
What we are becoming is a process state, where any legal activity gets continually more of a hassle. Which of course incentivises an increase in extra-legal activity.
Similar reason that so many high street shops are of dubious legality these days.
Irony is the two Turkish barbers in town seem to be genuinely legit and run by people who’ve been living and contributing to the community for years.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
How about composting. We compost everything. Admittedly I have the space and a large compost area, but then I have a huge garden creating a lot of compost. If you have a small garden one bin should be enough. Our holiday home bin is only 1/3rd full. If you are hedge cutting it might be a challenge, but if you chop it small enough you should be able to get it in over a few weeks. It drops in volume quickly. If it is lawn cuttings get a mower with a mulcher (if a small lawn you probably don't need it). No waste and no need to fertilize the lawn.
I am always surprised by the number of garden waste bins around. Am I missing something?
I have a small garden so no interest in paying for a brown bin I'd almost never use. So I compost most things, any small bits I can't compost I'll either take to the tip if there's a lot (not often) or just shove it into the black bin if I have space.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
I have no idea what procedures the UK uses in coin flips, but in the past I found it easy to control the outcome when flipping a coin. Most athletes could learn to do the same with a little practice.
Assuming something like a plausibly sensible flip then I don't believe a word of this.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
How about composting. We compost everything. Admittedly I have the space and a large compost area, but then I have a huge garden creating a lot of compost. If you have a small garden one bin should be enough. Our holiday home bin is only 1/3rd full. If you are hedge cutting it might be a challenge, but if you chop it small enough you should be able to get it in over a few weeks. It drops in volume quickly. If it is lawn cuttings get a mower with a mulcher (if a small lawn you probably don't need it). No waste and no need to fertilize the lawn.
I am always surprised by the number of garden waste bins around. Am I missing something?
We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
I highly doubt that is anything to do with OSA. Haven't delivery services been doing this for ages as otherwise too easy for kids to order booze on Uber Eats. My guess that whatever is being flagged on that order is some mistake on the system.
I have a flat in Manchester and I get this frequently because in the past orders are being delivered to the wrong customer.
This way they can see it is delivered to the right person.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
Don't get me started on fly tipping. It's one of those subjects where I become a hanger and flogger type very quickly!
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership have just opened a consultation on service users giving financial contribution to services provided by them, including a "charge for corporate appointeeship" which is an obvious conflict of interest.
We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
I highly doubt that is anything to do with OSA. Haven't delivery services been doing this for ages as otherwise too easy for kids to order booze on Uber Eats. My guess that whatever is being flagged on that order is some mistake on the system.
Could be the soft drink, strangely for supermarket meal deals there seems to be age verification for "sports" drinks but not iced coffees with higher caffeine levels. Tried out a CBD laced ginger beer one lunchtime which elicited an "Is everything OK luv?" from the lady who cleared the age verification
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
How about composting. We compost everything. Admittedly I have the space and a large compost area, but then I have a huge garden creating a lot of compost. If you have a small garden one bin should be enough. Our holiday home bin is only 1/3rd full. If you are hedge cutting it might be a challenge, but if you chop it small enough you should be able to get it in over a few weeks. It drops in volume quickly. If it is lawn cuttings get a mower with a mulcher (if a small lawn you probably don't need it). No waste and no need to fertilize the lawn.
I am always surprised by the number of garden waste bins around. Am I missing something?
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
Don't get me started on fly tipping. It's one of those subjects where I become a hanger and flogger type very quickly!
We pay for a garden waste bin but our tips are free for residents as long as we don't take the piss
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership have just opened a consultation on service users giving financial contribution to services provided by them, including a "charge for corporate appointeeship" which is an obvious conflict of interest.
Isn't that simply modernese for a works doctor/nurse? In which case, not quite so much so, though one can still see potential issues.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
Yes, but that does cost. Two solutions stand out:
1 Accepting that services need to be paid for, even if it means taxes going up. 2 acknowledging that having councils as the funders of last resort for social care is a very bad idea.
Both of which are probably good (realistic) things in themselves.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
Don't get me started on fly tipping. It's one of those subjects where I become a hanger and flogger type very quickly!
We pay for a garden waste bin but our tips are free for residents as long as we don't take the piss
We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
We're not a police state - they're notably not omnipresent.
What we are becoming is a process state, where any legal activity gets continually more of a hassle. Which of course incentivises an increase in extra-legal activity.
Similar reason that so many high street shops are of dubious legality these days.
Irony is the two Turkish barbers in town seem to be genuinely legit and run by people who’ve been living and contributing to the community for years.
Seen two "Turkish" barbers in the North Ilford Ghetto called "Erbil Barber" and "Kurd Cuts". So maybe Kurdish, and NOT Turkish? (Erbil is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan).
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
Yes, but that does cost. Two solutions stand out:
1 Accepting that services need to be paid for, even if it means taxes going up. 2 acknowledging that having councils as the funders of last resort for social care is a very bad idea.
Both of which are probably good (realistic) things in themselves.
The issue is central government mandating certain things and pushing the cost onto local government.
Local government should be about local services and communities should pay an appropriate amount.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
And rain stopping play shows that some things just never change.
We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
We're not a police state - they're notably not omnipresent.
What we are becoming is a process state, where any legal activity gets continually more of a hassle. Which of course incentivises an increase in extra-legal activity.
Similar reason that so many high street shops are of dubious legality these days.
Irony is the two Turkish barbers in town seem to be genuinely legit and run by people who’ve been living and contributing to the community for years.
Seen two "Turkish" barbers in the North Ilford Ghetto called "Erbil Barber" and "Kurd Cuts". So maybe Kurdish, and NOT Turkish? (Erbil is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan).
One of ours is Kuidasai the other is called ‘the deepest’, I suspect they like Rod Stewart
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
I have no idea what procedures the UK uses in coin flips, but in the past I found it easy to control the outcome when flipping a coin. Most athletes could learn to do the same with a little practice.
Magneto, nice to hear from you again! How was Genosha? 😀
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
Not so much zero crime as the crime is very, very, very organised.
Yes probably. My guide (fabulously drunk and funny American writer) took me to the dodgiest parts of Busan and he made it clear crime DOES exist - it’s just highly unlikely to impact the average tourist/expat/citizen - unless they are desperate to deal drugs etc
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
Culture always changes. Any 'old' British culture you remember was a 'new' British culture to the generations before. It's perhaps things like the wireless, television and the Internet that do most to smooth away national differences.
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
Don't get me started on fly tipping. It's one of those subjects where I become a hanger and flogger type very quickly!
We pay for a garden waste bin but our tips are free for residents as long as we don't take the piss
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
In Durham we’ve been paying for around a decade for them to take our garden waste. £35 a year IiRC.
What can you do ? Needs taking. Fuckers rinse you for every penny they can get. I’m a pensioner too !
We pay for a garden waste bin in Lewsham too, I think it's fair, lots of people haven't got gardens and the people who do are mostly well off. If anyone really objects they can burn their garden waste instead.
Dirham is different to Lewisham I suspect and there are a lot of things I pay for in my council tax I don’t use but don’t begrudge.
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
Yeah I agree it's a slippery slope. I do think garden waste collection is a bit of a luxury that I'm personally willing to pay more for. The state is increasingly stretched because of population ageing so we are going to have to get used to paying more for less, unfortunately.
Against that I think they should abolish fees for residential (non business) use of municipal dumps - they encourage fly tipping
Don't get me started on fly tipping. It's one of those subjects where I become a hanger and flogger type very quickly!
We pay for a garden waste bin but our tips are free for residents as long as we don't take the piss
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
And rain stopping play shows that some things just never change.
Heavy rain in the eastern 'burbs this morning first thing, but dry here since then!
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
It's quite eye-opening on some of the early expedients and issues, some never really addressed, and not just getting the safety ball-bearings out of a Violet Club (and, worse, getting them back in).
At one point in the early dats, the question came up of what to do if the balloon went up when the PM was incommunicado in his car. The suggestion came, get the PM to buy a sub to the AA.*
*Which had telephone boxes and patrolmen all over the place, and a HQ across the road from the major RAF command.
Nagging doubt about my memory so I went back and checked in the book. What theu proposed to do was fit an AA *radio telephone* in the PM's car etc. Not quite the same thing, but still.
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
Find Out Now reverses last week's jump and returns to the long term trend it had been showing.
Find Out Now voting intention: 🟦 Reform UK: 30% (-4) 🔴 Labour: 20% (-) 🔵 Conservatives: 17% (+1) 🟠 Lib Dems: 13% (-1) 🟢 Greens: 9% (-1) (incorrectly reported in the tweet)
Changes from 23rd July [Find Out Now, 30th July, N=2,654]
Swing 2.5% from Reform to Tory since their last poll, must be Thatcherites returning or considering returning home after Kemi's pledge to copy Milei's spending cuts and moves towards a pledge to leave the ECHR
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
I would say the biggest foreign influence on British culture- by far- is the United States. As I happen to think their food is putrid and far too many of their values facile and self destructive- e.g. drugs, I would actively seek a reduced American influence as fast as possible.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
Culture always changes. Any 'old' British culture you remember was a 'new' British culture to the generations before. It's perhaps things like the wireless, television and the Internet that do most to smooth away national differences.
It’s really obvious when you look at shifts most easily identifiable by the royal period.
Look at culture and manners differences between Stuart, Hanoverian, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Post WW2, 60’s/70’s. The attitudes to religion, sex, drinking, crime all have noticeable differences. The preferences for art and culture are different, bawdiness levels or prurience peak and trough.
How the British see themselves as insular, Britain first, global all change.
Anybody today who only had seen Hogarth works as a reflection of a past Britain would think it was a wild, raucous, orgiastic riot of a country until modern times whilst anyone who only ever saw paintings by Victorian artists might think Britain was a stuffy and ordered world in the past.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
Rubbish. It's alive and well but it might not come to you in your sitting room (that's more likely to be a US mini-series).
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
Partners don't get salaries, by definition.
Given the income comes from taxpayers unless they work in private practice effectively they do, practice profitability is relatively stable in the NHS as there is little competition for NHS patients with only 1 local GP surgery normally
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
We’ve gone from a very high trust country - one of the most law abiding on earth - to a low-medium trust country. With the highest per capita rate of rape in the world
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
I'd say that Britain is probably round about the middle of the pack among advanced economies when it comes to 'respect for the law', and that's probably a good place to be. Too much or too little respect for the law is a bad thing.
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
Partners don't get salaries, by definition.
Given the income comes from taxpayers unless they work in private practice effectively they do, practice profitability is relatively stable in the NHS as there is little competition for NHS patients with only 1 local GP surgery normally
You could always just say, hands up, got that one wrong....there is no shame in it.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
We’ve gone from a very high trust country - one of the most law abiding on earth - to a low-medium trust country. With the highest per capita rate of rape in the world
Gee. Wonder why
Because idiots do not understand the figures, and what they mean?
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
Partners don't get salaries, by definition.
Given the income comes from taxpayers unless they work in private practice effectively they do, practice profitability is relatively stable in the NHS as there is little competition for NHS patients with only 1 local GP surgery normally
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to make a living as a GP. Put up an idea which challenges their income and it's clear that they are only one rung above the breadline.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
Obviously not a unique British thing. The police in certain areas have been dreadful, but those failing are the minority,
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
I'd say that Britain is probably round about the middle of the pack among advanced economies when it comes to 'respect for the law', and that's probably a good place to be. Too much or too little respect for the law is a bad thing.
It's like Japan's conviction rate of ~99%. Yes, there is a higher barrier to getting a case to court. But the idea that 99% of cases brought to trial are won by the prosecution is as sniffy as if only 1% of the accused were guilty.
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
Partners don't get salaries, by definition.
Given the income comes from taxpayers unless they work in private practice effectively they do, practice profitability is relatively stable in the NHS as there is little competition for NHS patients with only 1 local GP surgery normally
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to make a living as a GP. Put up an idea which challenges their income and it's clear that they are only one rung above the breadline.
The average GP salary in the UK in 2024 was £87,884...
I know we have a lot of inflation and cost of living crisis, but £85k a year, is not one rung above the breadline.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
We’ve gone from a very high trust country - one of the most law abiding on earth - to a low-medium trust country. With the highest per capita rate of rape in the world
Gee. Wonder why
Britain is one of the most trusting major countries and levels of trust have risen in recent decades:
We are becoming a police state. Now have to show to show ID to order food.
We're not a police state - they're notably not omnipresent.
What we are becoming is a process state, where any legal activity gets continually more of a hassle. Which of course incentivises an increase in extra-legal activity.
Similar reason that so many high street shops are of dubious legality these days.
Irony is the two Turkish barbers in town seem to be genuinely legit and run by people who’ve been living and contributing to the community for years.
Seen two "Turkish" barbers in the North Ilford Ghetto called "Erbil Barber" and "Kurd Cuts". So maybe Kurdish, and NOT Turkish? (Erbil is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan).
There's one in Bradford called "Venice Barber Shop". 0/10 for geography.
Starmer is adept at U-Turns so he should just admit cancelling Rwanda was a bad idea, sent totally the wrong message, and bring it make with a tweak and call it the Labour version.
Simply because Labour knows it wouldn't work just as the Conservatives probably did.
In truth, no one has come up with a coherent, legal, practical, workable and above all inexpensive solution to the problem of "the boats". If such a solution existed, it would have been implemented by either this Government or the last Government.
If withdrawing from the ECHR is the panacea some seem to think it would have been done by this Government or the last Government.
You could try the Greek response and immediately arrest and deport all those who come over illegally but that wouldn't stop them coming.
And, small boat crossings have increased 50% since it was cancellled.
Nice weather.
I doubt your average Afghan boat person has any idea of the Rwanda deterrent, or now, lack thereof.
Before the election Today had regular interviews with charity people in the Calais region and former border officials working with organisations who were very clear that the Rwanda plan was well known by asylum seekers and the threat of it was real to potential boaters.
I know that’s not ideal, something you really don’t like actually working, but the evidence was clearly there and with tweaks such as allowing successful applicants to come to the UK and non successful to stay in Rwanda or confirm and return to their county of origin, it might have worked very well but too many people were blinded to Rwanda because it was the Tories’ plan or frankly, they just don’t want to do anything about the problem.
Rwanda was appalling on so many fronts. It was a Johnsonian stunt which was amoral, Rwanda was not and is not a stable, safe and reliable destination and the project was absurdly expensive. Rwanda was a jolly jape concocted by Johnson and as I mentioned above, serious Tories in Cabinet hated the idea. That is not to say a more workable third party country arrangement is not viable, it is just on any measure, Rwanda wasn't the answer.
Rwanda does however serve a political function, it allows more enthusiastic right wingers to argue we should join Russia and Belarus and jettison the ECHR.
I had no problem with Rwanda.
Neither did Matthew Parris or Ken Clarke.
Ignoring the legalities for a moment (which you can't), the hope in the last Government was, pace Trident, Rwanda would act as a deterrent to those seeking to cross the Channel and enter the country illegally.
It was the biggest stick (well, not quite) the Government had to deter those who were trying to come over and there was some evidence it was acting as such a deterrent.
There was a big cost issue but the current situation has a big cost issue as well. Presumably we'd have assembled a plane load of illegals and then flown them out to Kigali - how many flights a week would we have seen? The idea we'd have flown three or four people on a plane to Kigali was ridiculous but the desperate desire of the last Government to show their plan was "working" led us to that point.
The other side of the issue was whether we would transport those already here from their (allegedly) four star hotel accommodation to something somewhat more rudimentary on the outskirts of Kigali and I'm sure that was under consideration before the Conservatives were swept away in July 2024.
It's not just about flying illegal migrants TO Rwanda - there's the small matter of returning those whose applications were successful (about half perhaps?) and sending the unsuccessful to some other country so in the end it was much more symbolic than serious, more propaganda than practical.
After illegal entry NONE should qualify, they are economic parasites bleeding the country dry due to ineffectual effete woke politician's and liberal do gooders.
What about the Scots diaspora? You can't go anywhere without some reference to an ancestor that has gone before. Is economic migration only for some?
ILLEGAL , did you see that , how many Scots are illegally emigrating to countries.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
We’ve gone from a very high trust country - one of the most law abiding on earth - to a low-medium trust country. With the highest per capita rate of rape in the world
Gee. Wonder why
Britain is one of the most trusting major countries and levels of trust have risen in recent decades:
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
Partners don't get salaries, by definition.
Given the income comes from taxpayers unless they work in private practice effectively they do, practice profitability is relatively stable in the NHS as there is little competition for NHS patients with only 1 local GP surgery normally
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to make a living as a GP. Put up an idea which challenges their income and it's clear that they are only one rung above the breadline.
The average GP salary in the UK in 2024 was £87,884...
I know we have a lot of inflation and cost of living crisis, but £85k a year, is not one rung above the breadline.
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
Nurses to be fair have more of a case, their payrise is slightly lower than that GPs and consultants have been offered and GPs who are partners in their practice can earn 6 figure salaries
Partners don't get salaries, by definition.
Given the income comes from taxpayers unless they work in private practice effectively they do, practice profitability is relatively stable in the NHS as there is little competition for NHS patients with only 1 local GP surgery normally
You'd be surprised how difficult it is to make a living as a GP. Put up an idea which challenges their income and it's clear that they are only one rung above the breadline.
It is utter rubbish, as FU states the average GP salary is nearly £90k a year, an average income only corporate lawyers or investment bankers or top division footballers or CEOs or, just, MPs would exceed.
Partners earn even more, £110,000 on average, as do surgeons and consultants, £105,504 to £139,882
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
Culture always changes. Any 'old' British culture you remember was a 'new' British culture to the generations before. It's perhaps things like the wireless, television and the Internet that do most to smooth away national differences.
It’s really obvious when you look at shifts most easily identifiable by the royal period.
Look at culture and manners differences between Stuart, Hanoverian, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Post WW2, 60’s/70’s. The attitudes to religion, sex, drinking, crime all have noticeable differences. The preferences for art and culture are different, bawdiness levels or prurience peak and trough.
How the British see themselves as insular, Britain first, global all change.
Anybody today who only had seen Hogarth works as a reflection of a past Britain would think it was a wild, raucous, orgiastic riot of a country until modern times whilst anyone who only ever saw paintings by Victorian artists might think Britain was a stuffy and ordered world in the past.
To my mind, the biggest shift must have been if you were born in England, in a village in the Home Counties, in say, 1780, and died in say 1860.
You would grow up in a village society not that different to its counterpart 400 years earlier, but you would die in a very different world, a world of the telegraph, and railways, and industrialisation, and perhaps with your village converted into a suburb of London. Child deaths, and maternal deaths, although still high by our standards, would be increasingly rare, rather than near-norms.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
We’ve gone from a very high trust country - one of the most law abiding on earth - to a low-medium trust country. With the highest per capita rate of rape in the world
Gee. Wonder why
Britain is one of the most trusting major countries and levels of trust have risen in recent decades:
I predict this shift will continue. Young men - white men in particular? - have had enough of being blamed for everything bad
US pensioners by contrast swung to Harris and the Democrats, as did middle aged women.
In the US the split is now more gender than income or age and only a little less than race, indeed the Democrats are on 47% affiliation amongst women over 65 to 44% for the GOP now, while men age 18-29 are 52% Republican and just 34% Democrat.
Republicans do not lead with any age group of women now and the Democrats do not lead with any age group of men
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
I would say the biggest foreign influence on British culture- by far- is the United States. As I happen to think their food is putrid and far too many of their values facile and self destructive- e.g. drugs, I would actively seek a reduced American influence as fast as possible.
And one of the worst examples is Reform UK apeing Republicans in the US.
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
What are these aspects of culture, and how long were they actually part of our 'culture' ?
Well undoubtedly many. 'Respect for the law' perhaps to choose one. (And of course that's probably just a Victorian thing)
That's an interesting one. Not just in the questions of when it started, and if it ever actually really existed, and if it has in fact, disappeared.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
We’ve gone from a very high trust country - one of the most law abiding on earth - to a low-medium trust country. With the highest per capita rate of rape in the world
Gee. Wonder why
Britain is one of the most trusting major countries and levels of trust have risen in recent decades:
I predict this shift will continue. Young men - white men in particular? - have had enough of being blamed for everything bad
It's not plunging among the young. Gen Z have more trust than millennials did at the same age, and all groups show rising trust as they get older (except Gen Z because there is only one data point).
And who's blaming young white men for everything bad? Everyone knows that society's ills are all down to old white men!
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
British culture has rather been lost, and can't be restored. I hope that the Japanese and the Koreans manage to hold on to theirs.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
27,000 people at the Oval watching a 5-day game of cricket, with many, many more watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio, rather suggests that 'British culture' is still pretty strong.
Yes, but it's changed. We've experienced so many pressures from outside and inside that we've lost aspects of our culture that made us unique. I don't know whether such change is good or bad, but losing the historical identity wouldn't be my first choice.
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
I would say the biggest foreign influence on British culture- by far- is the United States. As I happen to think their food is putrid and far too many of their values facile and self destructive- e.g. drugs, I would actively seek a reduced American influence as fast as possible.
And one of the worst examples is Reform UK apeing Republicans in the US.
Politically, I think the US has very little to teach us.
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Population of Korea (2024.11.1)
- 51,805,547 (+31,026 from 2023.11.1)
Korean - 49,762,803 (-76,568)
Foreigner - 2,042,744 (+107,594)
https://x.com/tyqwer16/status/1950056982611972331
Should we all pay individually for specific services then ? Starts at garden waste. What about libraries for example. Or other services.
I do compost. Both food waste, I have an wormery, and grass clippings but I cannot compost everything.
As you say yourself you have the space and a large area.
Every year I used the wormery stuff for my grown and put the worm wee on the garden.
This year has been dry so not so bad as the grass has not really been growing. Last year I was trimming my unwieldy bush and cutting my lawn weekly.
What we are becoming is a process state, where any legal activity gets continually more of a hassle.
Which of course incentivises an increase in extra-legal activity.
Similar reason that so many high street shops are of dubious legality these days.
He is *always* wrong on the solutions.
The British Disease consists, in part, of worshiping generalists (preferably lawyers or accountants) and despising technical knowledge. Especially the idea that management should have technical knowledge of their domain.
Before Luckyguy pins me for the 1-2-3
Cracking.
This way they can see it is delivered to the right person.
Tried out a CBD laced ginger beer one lunchtime which elicited an "Is everything OK luv?" from the lady who cleared the age verification
During my trip to SKO I got a slight desire to live in Busan (rather more than Seoul, which I found less appealing)
Great location, amazing markets, pleasant climate, vivacious people
Also really close to Japan, it's about 90 mins from Osaka. And zero crime. And mad Russians, with the hookers
Ah, life should be 300 years long, then one could try all these things
1 Accepting that services need to be paid for, even if it means taxes going up.
2 acknowledging that having councils as the funders of last resort for social care is a very bad idea.
Both of which are probably good (realistic) things in themselves.
(There's of course a 'new' British culture, but it's quite different)
(Erbil is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan).
Reform councillor resigns so wife can enter flower show
Local government should be about local services and communities should pay an appropriate amount.
If you, or anyone on PB has 90 minutes to investigate and is curious about the best of British culture, and you are in London, I super strongly advise you to get yourself down to The Glitch (me neither) in Waterloo to see "In Defence of Adventurous Mothers". A fantastic two-hander written by Simon Marshall and on for the rest of the week until Sunday.
I was there last night and it is the very best of "British Culture" (whatever that means).
https://www.theglitch.london/in-defence-of-adventurous-mothers
That's going to trigger the Online Safety Act, surely?
(I rate as a huge plus the sort of fusion identity which the immigrant communities have helped to make, but I rather wish we'd retained something of our own.)
That's probably good news for Gloucestershire.
Which date did you have in mind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36je08d111o
GPs are also on the warpath as of course are junior doctors. Wes Streeting has got his hands full.
And still nobody has answered the question.
Look at culture and manners differences between Stuart, Hanoverian, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Post WW2, 60’s/70’s. The attitudes to religion, sex, drinking, crime all have noticeable differences. The preferences for art and culture are different, bawdiness levels or prurience peak and trough.
How the British see themselves as insular, Britain first, global all change.
Anybody today who only had seen Hogarth works as a reflection of a past Britain would think it was a wild, raucous, orgiastic riot of a country until modern times whilst anyone who only ever saw paintings by Victorian artists might think Britain was a stuffy and ordered world in the past.
But I'd argue that 'respect for the law' is not a uniquely British attribute. And it will certainly have been challenged by the behaviour of some police over the last few decades.
Gee. Wonder why
By comparison, our conviction rate is about 82%.
I know we have a lot of inflation and cost of living crisis, but £85k a year, is not one rung above the breadline.
A Scottish family behind me is having a mildly heated debate about politics. Their accents are so thick I originally thought they were locals
Then I heard the words “Nigel Farrrrrridge” in broad but upmarket Glaswegian
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/uk-public-among-most-trusting-in-world-study-finds
And look at this. A quite extraordinary shift to the right in American young men in just two years. They’ve all been black pilled
https://x.com/christianheiens/status/1950645127053180950?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
I predict this shift will continue. Young men - white men in particular? - have had enough of being blamed for everything bad
Partners earn even more, £110,000 on average, as do surgeons and consultants, £105,504 to £139,882
You would grow up in a village society not that different to its counterpart 400 years earlier, but you would die in a very different world, a world of the telegraph, and railways, and industrialisation, and perhaps with your village converted into a suburb of London. Child deaths, and maternal deaths, although still high by our standards, would be increasingly rare, rather than near-norms.
In the US the split is now more gender than income or age and only a little less than race, indeed the Democrats are on 47% affiliation amongst women over 65 to 44% for the GOP now, while men age 18-29 are 52% Republican and just 34% Democrat.
Republicans do not lead with any age group of women now and the Democrats do not lead with any age group of men
And who's blaming young white men for everything bad? Everyone knows that society's ills are all down to old white men!