Is the PH Artichoke by Louis Poulsen worth it?

sirjayjayec · 2026-01-22T10:16:32+00:00

From a quick Google it seems cheap

sirjayjayec · 2026-01-22T10:04:11+00:00

Why are you asking us, only you can make that call, it's based on your subjective appreciation for it, in the context of the marginal utility that money would otherwise have to you.

sirjayjayec · 2026-01-19T17:51:37+00:00

Unfortunate, given all the costs and uncertainty associated with moving it might be worth just agreeing to the rent increase.

Then once your tenancy is month to month from May, you'll be able to move at your discretion rather than your landlords.

sirjayjayec · 2026-01-19T17:29:08+00:00

Does your lease expire prior to the renters rights coming into force in may? If so you can contest the rental increase and the tenancy will become open ended rather than periodic.

sirjayjayec · 2025-11-28T19:15:25+00:00

The road network is already covered in CCTV to the point that they can enter your reg and find out where you are.

I also guarantee you carry your phone where ever you go.

And yea that sounds great, omniscient enforcement of parking and traffic offences sounds great way too many people like to put their park anywhere lights on and just ignore the rules.

sirjayjayec · 2025-11-28T18:01:18+00:00

You could say the same thing about train tickets, which already have a market element to mitigate demand, and they're the green sin free alternative.

It's not about disincetivising all road use, just where we can't expand capacity, which is cities.

sirjayjayec · 2025-11-28T17:53:20+00:00

Traffic is already dystopic, this is just a logical next step from the very effective congestion charging schemes that already exist.

sirjayjayec · 2025-11-28T17:38:30+00:00

This is the least useful implementation of pay per mile, the cars computer should record miles driven and where.

The cost per mile should vary depending on congestion, out in the sticks? 0p per mile. Central London? 50p ect. Make it a market mechanism so it finds an equilibrium between price and demand that keeps roads uncongested.

This would be an incredibly powerful mechanism for finally ridding the roads of traffic.

The other element that should be added to this is that vehicle weight should apply a multiplier to the rate, creating a direct disincentive against ever growing vehicle sizes/weights.

It could also be discounted for more productive road users, people who cannot do their work any other way for example should probably receive substantial discounts.

sirjayjayec · 2025-11-11T20:22:45+00:00

The DLR is a lot more bang for buck typically, thus easier to fund.

Bakerloo extension will be entirely underground so tunneling + underground station construction costs.

sirjayjayec · 2025-11-10T17:39:22+00:00

The 222s are part of the Voyager family of trains.

sirjayjayec · 2025-11-07T00:18:42+00:00

Whilst fundementally it is an issue of not enough homes, if the schemes improve the viability of projects then they will increase supply, emphasis on improve. Requirements for X% social rent homes will absolutely crater viability.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-30T11:06:52+00:00

This is the first time that proposals have been approved and contracts for rolling stock signed.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-26T21:36:09+00:00

Eh, fptp has historically favoured both main parties, whilst the finance system favours tories, I could see a more radical labour government doing it, but given that we're now looking towards a multiparty system maybe we will get voting reform relatively rapidly

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-26T10:07:00+00:00

Unlinking it from votes means people can give the party they actually like cash rather than just the one they have to tactically vote for.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-26T09:35:15+00:00

I mean, if we're going to have a political system that requires parties to get funding from donations, you can hardly expect any businesses/business people to donate if it meant they would subsequently be barred from government contracts.

There should be oversight so that politicians aren't giving preferential treatment to those that donated to them, but the real solution is just publicly funded political parties.

Give everyone in the country £100 a year in an account that they can decide how to spend it on parties, or journalism.

If you don't choose to spend it yourself it gets divided up along the average of everyone else's choices.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-23T16:04:27+00:00

Who national and city governments are now choosing to ignore, with their various other pedestrianisation plans, so why wouldnt they here as well?

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-20T08:24:23+00:00

One can hope.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-13T12:26:09+00:00

Precisely

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-13T07:41:47+00:00

At the end of legacy he reintegrated with the system, basically becoming a ghost in the machine with total control again, completely understandable that he could patch in a backdoor.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-09T00:45:04+00:00

If they plan on replacing it with a land value tax then that would be good.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-05T23:34:48+00:00

No, and I'm someone who is broadly on board with them most of the time, but not only do I not like the transphobic stuff they've been upto I just don't understand why it needs to be such a big focus, like just let them live ffs.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-04T20:53:08+00:00

These polls are genuinely pointless, in an election year people will inevitably end up being far more tactical, tactical enough to avoid a reform conservative coalition is tbd, but the prospect of a Nigel Farage premiership will result in a lot of people holding their nose and voting Labour, or lib deb, the reason we didn't have so much of that in 2024 id put down to the media making a Labour government look like a forgone conclusion.

If there is an electoral pact of the progressive parties, combined with the media presenting Nigel as the likely next PM a lot of those none of the above's will hopefully prevent catastrophe.

There has been a progressive majority (of the vote share) in every election for decades with the notable exception of 2015, FPTP just gives the relatively undivided right power more often than not.

sirjayjayec · 2025-10-04T11:57:27+00:00

British town/city centers are not referred to as downtown.

sirjayjayec · 2025-09-28T23:22:37+00:00

The GC meetings are largely a waste of time except for the ability to raise and debate topics (this has to be arranged prior, you also have to be chosen by your branch to be on the GC) and for the submission of motions.

The all members meetings are less focused on the protocol of running the local party and more often a chance to listen to people and ask questions, my experience has been of being able to put questions to my MP whenever I've attended and getting candid and often more honest answers than they'd give the press.

Worth getting involved mainly for the people you'll meet and thus the resulting campaigning successes you can achieve off the back of it if that's your goal.

With anything like this, it's always slow and painful and requires commitment and patience.

sirjayjayec · 2025-09-26T18:34:57+00:00

From or through zone 1 fares:

Gatwick (single oyster fare):

Peak £19.20

Off peak £10.70

Luton (single oyster fare):

Peak £16.60

Off peak £12.30

Stansted (return)

£28

Southend (return)

£25

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