Ignoring the merits of HS2, I think it does say something about the British state that they can't do relatively simple things that it really means to be a functioning country. Infrastructure pro… (View Post)

The £325k estate limit isn't always the limit, though: if it's a couple and they pass away within a few years of each other the limit increases to £500k. Also, was it explained to people th… (View Post)

Why is wealth a marker of success? Lots of people inherit wealth or become wealthy because they went to school with Barty and Barty got a good job because his dad knows Tamsin and Tamsin works in the… (View Post)

Probably missed a lot of discourse about this over the weekend, but this is absolutely appalling from the Met: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/24/met-police-requests-support-from-army-af… (View Post)

So apparently the vote for the party with these policies in their manifesto was not an acceptable mandate for these policies because there wasn’t a “national debate”. So… can they just ignore the man… (View Post)