Yes it also helps the labour market, especially companies based outside London for whom SDLT is a big friction point in people moving for a new job. Let councils raise council tax if they need to spe… (View Post)

Yes if you make it impossible to fire people, then people simply don’t get ‘hired’ and you end up with a two-tier workforce, the bottom tier having no rights at all because they’re illegal workers. (View Post)

The Discord / Zendesk hack from the other day just took a bad turn. The hackers have 1.5TB of photos, 2.2m photos, related to age verification, and are using it for extorting Discord. That’ll be 2.2m… (View Post)

Isn’t it the opposite, that the canned water is seen as the choice of the aware and conscious, the Good People use cans rather than plastic so it carries a premium? That would be very Californian. (View Post)

Good news for England, not that one should wish injury on one’s opponents. (View Post)