Translation is my second job, and continues to generate useful earnings. AI translation is now almost ubiquitous as a first draft, and it's pretty good, but about 20% of the sentences need tweak… (View Post)

Yes, that's why I'm wary of polls about tax and spending in general - e.g. HYUFD frequently notes that polls show that most people would like IHT abolished, but I've never seen a poll … (View Post)

I don't know much about NI, but the issue about nationalisation of utilities is that if voters think they are badly run (overpricing, sewage, power cuts, whatever) and attach great importance to… (View Post)

Interesting EU election poll. The hard right ECR (Mreloni, and the Polish nationalists in PiS) which the Tories used to belong to) is being outflanked by the ID ultras (AfD, Le Pen), while the Left i… (View Post)

Absolutely. He's not very flashy, but I don't care about that. Incidentlaly, I have a 2015 Fiesta and it's ULEZ-compliant - how ancient does a car have to be to be a problem? I wo der … (View Post)