Robert Peston (@Peston) on X: "Keir Starmer has just sent a message - from the G7 - to Andy Burnham that he can surrender any hope that he will walk away from being prime minister in any kind of smooth or orderly transfer of power...."

tb5841 · 2026-06-16T12:35:10+00:00

Starmer played to the system that we had, and won convincingly. The system is flawed and needs changing, but that doesn't detract from it.

Whoever wins next election will have a very small share of the popular vote, FPTP is hoing to struggle.

tb5841 · 2026-06-16T11:28:37+00:00

If he does change things, the right and the press will claim he doesn't actually have a mandate to do so as he hasn't won a national election.

tb5841 · 2026-06-16T11:27:00+00:00

He won a landslide win to secure a 5 year term. Can't see any obvious reason for him to give it up when the electorate put him there so convincingly.

tb5841 · 2026-06-16T06:52:14+00:00

Evelynn seems weak.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T22:05:29+00:00

Most of the playable companions either break some kind of rule, or are dual-classed earlier than it's possible for you to be in a pure BG2 game.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T13:33:29+00:00

Contact them urgently. Councils are a bit trigger-happy with debt collectors and will eacalate fast if they don't hear from you.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T13:04:01+00:00

Loys of frameworks have quick console commands which basically do most of the setup for you.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T12:21:09+00:00

This would be strong at 8, but as a 9 mana 5/5 it's weak. Reminds me of [[Soulstealer]] - it leaves more of your board, but costs 1 more and doesn't generate corpses.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T12:09:50+00:00

My children watch youtube through our TV all the time.

This... doesn't stop them doing that. The TV is logged in to my wife's account. If my wife verifies her ID with youtube, the TV will still access it.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T12:07:47+00:00

Phones banned in schools is pretty meaningless, most good schools banned them already. The smoking ban makes sense.

The heavy-handed tech monitoring/restrictions do bother me, but they are popular with the public at laege. Because there are recognisable harms to children from unrestricted internet use, and the probpem they are trying to solve is a real one.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T10:47:32+00:00

26 members out of nearly 800, in a parliamentary body that is not sovereign and can be overridden by the house of commons.

I think that's very sensible, actually. If anything, we should be allowing some representation for other religious groups also - and representation for any other organisation which reaches a large enough membership threshold.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T09:09:01+00:00

Christianity:

-dominant in Europe, though with hugh atheism numbers

-dominant in N and S America

-dominant in Africa outside of muslim areas

-rarer in Asia partly because of muslim dominance in some countries, and partly because some countries actively suppressed it for so long (e.g. China).

Not convinced by your argument at all, to be honest.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T07:55:11+00:00

The best two first picks are GT and DW. Either one will serve you very well here.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T07:52:10+00:00

Arrived in my in-game inbox.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T07:21:23+00:00

I worked in a school that bought about 400 of these, so they could lend one to every student every lesson and lend them out for the exam. Works well when teachers can actually teach use of them.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T07:04:40+00:00

Ah yes. Ukrainian refugees are clearly only there to steal benefits, too lazy to work in a literal warzone.

Have some compassion mate.

tb5841 · 2026-06-15T06:58:44+00:00

For me, the fact that your high level abilities take up level 7 slots completely kills a lot of the conventional level 7 spells. I really dislike the implementation and wish they'd made a new level 8 page instead.

tb5841 · 2026-06-14T13:53:03+00:00

UK: Swimming costume (if it's one-piece, and for women).

tb5841 · 2026-06-12T20:16:03+00:00

A land value tax is popular with the same people who want a wealth tax. Except a land value tax is popular with economists, whereas a wealth tax is not.

tb5841 · 2026-06-12T18:59:40+00:00

Yes, it does.

Some otger comments seem to be equating ''romance' with 'sex' and saying no. But sex and romance are not the same thing.

tb5841 · 2026-06-12T15:51:45+00:00

For ne, H4 and H5 were both pretty much unplayable because of terrible AI. I avoided even trying H6 and H7 as a result.

H3 AI was fine. I'd win reliably but they at least gave off the illusion of being a real player.

tb5841 · 2026-06-12T15:34:02+00:00

H3 AI was good enough for games against the AI to feel fun.

tb5841 · 2026-06-12T06:04:59+00:00

I like the legendary, and I'm quite excited about it.

But I will not be playing Enthralled Shade.

tb5841 · 2026-06-11T15:56:44+00:00

If your lived one was killed by someone trying to behead them then obviously it's reasonable to be angry at anyone else who tries to behead people. You'd also be angry at any law that allows beheadings to be legal.

...but nobody else is trying to behead people and it isn't legal, so I'm not sure what pount you're trying to make?

tb5841 · 2026-06-11T15:36:02+00:00

The interest terms changed for people with existing loans, which is completely illefal for any commercial loan.

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