ben-knight.bsky.social
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Given they've claimed they want to deport 3k a day isn't this a catastrophic failure even on their own f*cked up terms
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Is this online only? Can't see it in today's print edition
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The whole country (maybe the whole western world) seems paralysed by nostalgia. Perhaps this afflicts the labour leadership also?
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Out of interest... Where in the ground are you sitting that has a convenient laptop table like that?
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Do we not need to think about Kant's Universal Maxim? The fact is that the idea it's *only* annoying is because it's only a minority of people who would be so anti social. If everyone did this it would be totally intolerable
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It's more a life stage definition than age but yes... Late 40s to late 50s. Don't forget if you are lucky/unlucky enough to live long enough to need care in old age (80s and 90s) you'll likely have older kids
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I helped write a report on "the sandwich generation" 15+ years ago about the pressure on this age group. It's only got worse since
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I'm not sure if they're still doing it but I got a year of print vouchers for £200...about 65p per day. I pay to have it delivered for about 50p more. Absolute bargain
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Definitely happening this year?
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I'd bet next month's mortgage they asked chatgpt (or similar) for a summary of themes with an illustrative quote for each theme
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Why did you decide to frame this around old ad vs new ad rather than showing the ads and asking their opinion and comparing results? Seems like it could bias results a bit (potentially in both either direction depending on respondent predisposition to change)
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One presumes the quotes are illustrative rather than the totality of the data they analysed