Yes, 2 years is too long - 3 to 6 months is plenty to find out whether someone is a time waster or not. You need some kind of probationary period to insulate the employer from the “this person is con… (View Post)

Odds on both of these bills screwing up their target constituencies even more than they are already? I have a nasty feeling that the changes in the Renter’s Rights Bill will result in even more prope… (View Post)

Sounds like he wasn’t even looking up anything about the trial itself, but about the definition of joint enterprise. How is that worth 4 months in jail? (View Post)

I know it’s rehashing old ground, but the Conservative party reached new heights of of out-of-touchness when Sunak decided to announce that HS2 would no longer be coming to Manchester ... in Manchest… (View Post)

There was a segment on “More or Less” looking at the recorded statistics on this recently (listen to the first segment): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002dzj6 Short version: the data is absolute… (View Post)