Given the tripe already having been put out on this sort of thing today, as discussed passim on PB, I'd want to check whether that doesn't simply reflect the fact that a lot of UC claimants may not n… (View Post)

Even a small percentage of employed people getting credits would make up quite a chunk of UC recipients, too, so that also makes sort of sense. More reasons to probe. And it's Twitter so someone else… (View Post)

There was ca. 1967 a (then very expensive and primitive) arcade machine which was a driving simulator which threw in such things as a parked car's door opening in front of you. No idea how long that … (View Post)

Quite. It's surprisingly not very salient in Scotland voter wise yet but if energy prices were to (continue to) be then things will get interesting. Ditto Wales, Northumberland etc. (View Post)

@DavidL recommended to me, some years ago, what turned out to be a memorable SF novel set in a Glaswegian solicitors' (the old kind) where part of the plot revolved around just the sort of filing sys… (View Post)