The BBC (to their credit) did this piece the other day on that subject : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9dnk34k41o Dozens of workers from around the world may have been trafficked into the UK to… (View Post)

I sometimes, at the back of my hazy head, worry that a lot of 'our wealth' is in fact just a number someone's typed into Excel, emailed to a mate who did a `=(A1+1000000)` and emailed … (View Post)

I'm not sure it's so much 'tagging along with' but more 'stumbled into the flow, tripped, was helped up, tripped again, got confused, helped up, asked where her carer was, ex… (View Post)

I absolutely loved the first film. I watched the second and thought "meh". The third I eye-rolled through. They all felt like pilots for spin-off series rather than 'the next chapter&#… (View Post)

I think some of us are underestimating how much twitter/x is now an irrelevance. I have a few colleagues under 30, even 35, for whom it's just nothing - doesn't exist in their world. TikTok… (View Post)