What do those numbers even mean? Share, probability of winning, cash weight of bets, number of bets? I think it might be the last, which is the least interesting. It's almost certainly meaningle… (View Post)

The total number of school pupils is also down by about 60k; https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics/2024-25 The primary school con… (View Post)

Isn't the main issue the unwinding of the Covid-era discounts? It's (not that) amazing how quickly an emergency dispensation becomes the demanded normal. (See also: Triple Lock.) (View Post)

Self-serving, you say? Put like that, it's a dead cert. (View Post)

It's odd- two of the reality-elimination formats that have lasted best- Strictly and Bake Off- are centred on people being nice to each other. Even The Traitors has a healthy cooperation-to-murd… (View Post)