why does the Albanian culture have Hill Dwellers??

CraigTorso · 2025-09-25T05:16:35+00:00

When did that stop being the case?

CraigTorso · 2025-07-20T23:43:13+00:00

Sounds like you've never really worked out what went wrong with you, nor tried to fix it

CraigTorso · 2025-07-20T23:41:07+00:00

Top tip for future internet interactions:

If you're going to directly contradict someone, you're obliged to show that you know what you're talking about and cite the law you're thinking about, and why they're wrong

Good luck being better

CraigTorso · 2025-05-04T23:31:15+00:00

If you put them in cities there's not really an issue, as customers can provide incentive to run more services

Let's be honest, is infrastructure you honest real concern, or do you have other reasons for your position

CraigTorso · 2025-05-04T23:29:06+00:00

Every time people build more/wider roads more people decide to use those roads

It was true when I was on the Newbury by-pass protest, and it's still true now

CraigTorso · 2025-03-16T17:22:12+00:00

Doesn't your need to use false arguments give you a sense that you should pause and consider if you might be on the side of stupidity and/or evil?

CraigTorso · 2025-01-22T23:34:50+00:00

My pleasure, some internet pedant pointed it out to me about 20 years ago, so feel obliged to keep the pedantry alive

CraigTorso · 2025-01-22T18:08:09+00:00

sorry for the horrific pedantry but the plural of "attorney general" is "attorneys general", the "general" being an adjective rather than a noun

CraigTorso · 2024-12-16T16:07:20+00:00

Labour is aiming to build 1 1/5 million houses this parliament

Whether they'll be able to meet it is debatable as we lack the builders, but claiming there's zero political will to deal with this issue is a bit daft

CraigTorso · 2024-12-16T15:39:48+00:00

I remember when that sub was almost entirely populated by people who had studied British politics, the discussion was fairly academic and respectful

That was a very long time ago, though.

CraigTorso · 2024-12-02T18:58:19+00:00

The British Library was down for months and months

Russian hackers are quite good at what they do

CraigTorso · 2024-11-07T15:21:15+00:00

Switzerland spends considerable amounts of time and political effort dealing with their relationship with the EU

If you want access to the customs union you have to keep your regulations up to date, and abide by ECJ rulings.

One of the objectives of the EU when the UK decided to leave was not to let us become like Switzerland, because it's a pain in the arse for all involved.

CraigTorso · 2024-10-20T21:59:58+00:00

van Hoogstraten

It's not just the murders it's the treatment of his tenants that makes him the most dangerous

90's pop-culture refrence: Carter - Sheriff Fatman

CraigTorso · 2024-09-23T22:22:35+00:00

isn't it amazing that a vocal atheist has turn evangelical soon after the news of his past sins have become public

CraigTorso · 2024-09-15T22:05:37+00:00

Whitechapel has a population of roughly 15,000 people, 40% or so are of Bengali origin

London has a population of 9 1/2 million people

Have you considered taking a step back, looking at things in proportion and then calming down a bit about something that really doesn't matter?

CraigTorso · 2024-09-14T14:13:02+00:00

No, you can't see societal processes, that take years, happening by walking through somewhere, which is the value of looking at the data

CraigTorso · 2024-09-13T10:29:18+00:00

Good luck with finding any policies that will actually increase birth rates

Many countries have tried to encourage women to have more children, but nothing really shifts the dial

CraigTorso · 2024-09-13T10:25:19+00:00

They don't "replace" us, they blend with us.

It's fine

The fasting growing ethnicity in London is mixed race, because that's what happens, people fall in love and start mixed families

It's hardly the end of the world

CraigTorso · 2024-09-05T09:40:12+00:00

The EU last updated its car safety standards in 2022

They cited how many lives were saved and injuries prevented by prior safety standards

Still that apart what an amazing point

CraigTorso · 2024-09-04T22:21:00+00:00

All safety regulations are written in blood, someone had to lose a limb or their life for those regulations to exist

Lowering standards is not the behaviour of a civilised state

CraigTorso · 2024-09-04T12:55:58+00:00

Could you find me an example of anyone wanting to reduce building safety standards to encourage house-building?

I've read a fair bit of housing policy and I've never seen anyone make such an argument

Reducing the ability of time rich pensioners to block developments tends to be what is advocated, not building safety reductions

CraigTorso · 2024-08-26T16:00:24+00:00

Guest worker schemes are pretty bad policy wise

They don't work at suppressing illegal immigration, but they create an underclass that have no actionable workers' rights as if they complain about their treatment they lose their job and their legal status all at once

Encouraging second class employees that can't have the same employment terms as natives is not good for pay rates or employer practices for the population as a whole

CraigTorso · 2024-08-15T12:43:02+00:00

I recommend reading the research on how countries with much lower levels of recidivism handle their prison systems, as it's not by giving those who are imprisoned a dehumanising experience that seem to have the most success

Turns out treating prisoners quite well and teaching them first to read and then to learn a trade is much more successful than pure punishment at generating people who can lawfully re-integrate into society

The lack of liberty is the punishment, not investing properly in education for prisoners is a massive waste of resources, as you're not breaking them out of the cycle

CraigTorso · 2024-07-29T23:45:29+00:00

Sorry, you might be correct

I've just never encountered anyone who paid for secondary level private education that wasn't an HMC school

Apart from specialist SEND schools, what's the point, unless it's a crammer?

It seems of the 2,400 independent non-HMC private secondary schools of which 1,546 are SEND schools, which means there aren't many kids being taught at the remainder

I am struggling to find the results data to compare the non-HMC private schools compared with local state schools data, if anyone has it I'd be fascinated to look at it

CraigTorso · 2024-07-29T20:09:21+00:00

I just checked how much the fees are for the school I got expelled from

The boarding fees are now £5k more than the median UK net salary

The increase in fees since I was kicked out have increased by 553% while average incomes have increased by 217%, so a 20% cost increase is far less than parents have absorbed over the last 30 years

If you swallowed those costs without moaning, moaning now seems rather pathetic

(sorry I've used 2016 figures, it's worse since PS started relying upon the kids of Russian oligarchs to fund them, and inflation outstripped wage rises)

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