I worked for a while at a school for kids with moderate emotional and behavioural difficulties. I spent a lot of time with a class of 14 and 15 year olds, not too far away from the end of their time … (View Post)

The problem is that paying with contactless is *too* easy. Until it stops working because you have no money left. (View Post)

Cash as a physical object is a lot easier to understand than waving a card about, particularly in terms of it being a finite resource. The abstract nature of paying by card would be parsed as equival… (View Post)

I don't think Vance is going to be replaced, but Trump could brazen it out if he did it. Everything is always someone else's fault, a big conspiracy against him, this would be no different.… (View Post)

It's an important principle of democratic politics that both sides respect the process and accept the result. Things start to break down in various ways when that stops happening. Even if it doe… (View Post)