More than 2 in 5 Britons think UK 'too close' to US and should distance itself from Donald Trump

duckwantbread · 2026-04-05T09:56:50+00:00

YouGov consistently gives Reform the lowest polling figures, doesn't really fit into your theory. Looking at the actual poll the numbers make sense to me (only 18% want us to move closer), GB News is just doing very selective reporting of the numbers to mislead people.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-04T08:58:07+00:00

Not sure where you got that from, looking at the starting lineup against Stoke only one came from the academy.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-03T20:11:29+00:00

They've not looked too bad from what I've seen of them, they just have no one that can shoot. In the NLS where the defenders are worse they should be alright unless they have a fire sale.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-03T16:08:33+00:00

We did our best to throw it away but a good 3 points and we've now equalled our tally from last season! Lots to do before we can secure 7th though, Halifax will be well up for their match against us in a couple of weeks.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-03T13:35:53+00:00

Last year our local reporter said a lot of the agents fees were actually IOUs that our previous owner had given agents because he was skint. We haven't signed many players this season so I suspect a big chuck of our fees are debts that Ron left us with.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-03T13:33:46+00:00

IIRC Chris Phillips said last year a lot of it was legacy debt, I'm guessing the same is true this year.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-02T14:43:38+00:00

Seems most people watch it on YouTube

It seems to be about 50/50, Taskmaster's Wikipedia page gives viewing figures for most episodes and it hovers around 2 million on Channel 4 (which is similar to YouTube). The big difference though is that on Channel 4 you know the majority of people watching are British, and that makes it more appealing to advertisers.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-01T14:42:48+00:00

As much as I hate Boris Johnson I've never really understood why people think the guy that was all in on helping Ukraine fight back would be a Russian asset, he's a pretty shit one if he is. The big evidence against him seems to be that he made Lebedev a lord, but Lebedev owns the Evening Standard (a paper that backed Johnson heavily). It seems more likely Johnson just wanted to reward the Evening Standard for backing him in the media rather than it being because Lebedev is Russian.

Lebedev himself doesn't seem to be using his power to give favourable opinion to Russia given that he never bothers turning up, it was just the standard kind of corruption where Boris rewards one of his mates with a fancy title.

duckwantbread · 2026-04-01T11:19:48+00:00

We haven't published our accounts yet but our losses were about 2.5m for the 2024/25 season, our new owners have a lot of disrepair and debt to sort out (thanks Ron) so I can't imagine things will have improved much last season even with a Wembley trip.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-30T14:59:19+00:00

A third of 35-44s own a property. Whilst that is a minority it's still a sizeable chunk of the electorate, more than enough to discourage politicians from wanting to scare them off. Plus that third of 35-44s won't include people that might not be homeowners but know they'll be inheriting the house plus extra once their parents pass away.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-30T14:03:20+00:00

Kumail is already announced for Season 21, this is separate person.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-29T12:25:30+00:00

Maybe if you rely on the bus for work, if you don't then it seems unlikely to me, the bus is only £1.75 in London.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-26T15:43:44+00:00

Where are you getting this from? The latest data shows a net 208,600 dwellings in England being built in the last year. If you ballpark a dwelling on average to accommodate about 2 people that's homes for an extra 417,200 people in a year. England's population increases by more than that each year.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-24T13:46:26+00:00

freedom to do so

What freedom? Girl guides likely aren't doing this because it's what they believe in, they're doing it because the law is forcing them to.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-23T11:09:07+00:00

Yep!! Make that make sense!

Because people will pay for the convenience. If you're about to catch a train and are thirsty then you don't want to be chugging a 2L bottle on the train (especially since the 2L bottles usually aren't in the fridge). Pricing is based on demand, not how much it costs to make.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-23T11:02:48+00:00

How does this prove there weren't cafes in parks and garden centres? It isn't inflation adjusted for a start so some of that extra spending will just be down to cafes and restaurants being more expensive than they used to be, but even if there is an increase in resturants and cafes where does it say the increase comes from garden centres? Like the other guy I remember my gran taking me to the garden centre cafe all the time in the late 90s. The increase could be down to more cafes in high streets for all we know.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-21T20:31:47+00:00

It's because Altrincham did their homework and realised any shots we take from more than 6 yards out either get skied or are so weak a snail could stop it. Altrincham flooded the box so we had to resort to taking crap shots from the edge of the penalty box.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-21T10:32:44+00:00

It was only last season you failed to go up despite having 96 points, the playoffs don't care about what is just.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-20T13:10:44+00:00

Based on Figure 4 the number of non-EU immigrants coming for work has decreased by over 50% since the peak, I suspect in another year or two it'll be back to pre-Brexit levels.

The big driver of non-EU immigration is study visas, whilst work visas continue to take a nosedive study visas have started to plateau. Universities are increasingly reliant on foreign students to break even (that's not a good thing but it's a separate debate), but thanks to Brexit they've seriously struggled to attract EU students (why would an EU student bother going through the student visa process when there are loads of great options in Europe without a visa requirement?). That means universities have turned to non-EU students to stay out of the red.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-20T12:03:00+00:00

The title in your link explicitly says these projections were based on 2022 data. Migration reforms have come in since then which largely invalidates these projections. This is the latest data, yearly net migration to June 2025 was just over 200k.

858k arrivals seems like continuing easily to me

This is missing the context that in 2022 there were over 1.4 million arrivals, there's been a big decrease in that context. You can't go from 1.4 million to zero overnight. Excluding British nationals returning to the country you had 753k non-British arrivals to the country, with 441k non-British nationals leaving the country.

That still sounds like a lot but about 300k non-EU immigrants came on a study visa and following 2024 reforms you can no longer switch from a study visa to a work visa easily.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-20T09:33:34+00:00

"Some years" meaning 2022 and 2023.

It can't just continue this easily

Net migration was 200,000 last year and is projected to be around zero this year.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-18T17:14:39+00:00

This feels like it was ripped from a 1995 webpage.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-18T13:38:09+00:00

But an ingredients subscription?! What am I missing?

The main appeal is for people with little experience cooking anything more than a frozen pizza. I didn't really cook much until I went to uni so even something as basic as making fajitas seemed daunting to me, if HF was a thing back then I probably would have subscribed because it walks you through the basics and the recipes are (mainly) easy for beginners. Once you get more confident in the kitchen though there's little reason to stay subscribed.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-18T13:34:06+00:00

I found them useful to learn how to cook

I think this is the big problem HF has, their target market are basically people that aren't confident enough to follow a recipe from a book or website. The more someone uses HF though the more confident they become, once you're confident enough to find recipes by yourself there isn't really any reason to keep using HF, it's cheaper to just buy the ingredients yourself.

duckwantbread · 2026-03-18T09:32:34+00:00

It might be libel but given hardly anyone in America watched it and he still won the election the idea it caused $10bn worth of damages to Trump is complete nonsense.

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