I’m sure this is common knowledge but Lyon’s worker uprising in the 19th century is the origin of the word ‘sabotage’. The workers were protesting against semi-automated loom weaving machines that used punch cards like primitive computers. When the managers weren’t looking the workers would through their shoes (which were called “sabos”) into the mechanism to break it.

Just got back from a holiday in Lyon. Super interesting place! I got the impression that the quality of life was good for the locals. Met a bunch of friendly Lyonnaise at a music festival and they were extremely generous sharing their party supplies.

Edit: I believe Lyon workers movement were also originators of slogans like “workers of the world unite”

I’m starting a new party for punching babies with Corbyn as leader. He’s left me on read but the media need to hear about this innovating new alternative NOW.

Do we need experts to tell us what the average enthusiastic gamer has been saying for years?

Guilty of the original set of charges as judged by a jury who had access to way more information than random people online. Now there are new charges being added.

I suspect people who are keen on her innocence are similar to other conspiracy theorists who feel important when they are being contrarian.

Left wing politicians can’t help but apply ideological purity tests to each other while the right is a large tent that all march to the same drum beat.

I liked John MacDonnel a lot but Corbyn’s views on international affairs were a real turn off

It would increase rental supply if people couldn’t turn (much of) a profit by selling houses that are too big for their needs. I get your point though.

I always wondered why first homes were excluded from CGT because it creates perverse incentives in the property market where a home becomes an asset with better returns than any other investment

It’s difficult because people in the higher tax brackets are already paying the lion’s share of taxes in the UK and due to the laffer curve and expensive accountants it’s hard to squeeze them. They’ll say a load of BS about leaving but the real issue is the little things they can do is extra pension contributions and those sorts of things that let them avoid the next tax bracket. Fiscal drag is increasing the tax intake without the govt needing to enact any specific rises anyway.

It’s our collective fiscal hole unfortunately and the markets are reacting badly to Starmer implying he might replace her.

Does anyone else have a viable plan to pay for our social services? This bill has been watered down to the point where it is not saving the public purse anything while the welfare bill continues to grow unsustainably.

I’m worried Labour are going to continue floundering and in-fighting until the next GE and then Reform will come in and make cuts that are a magnitude larger than what Reeves/the Treasury had been proposing here.

I don’t understand how “death” and “kill” have started being so context dependent.

When we see people protesting in parts of the world chanting “death to the west” on tv, does the average person watching it understand it’s a figure of speech which is implicitly calling for social justice or whatever?

Social media posts too like “kill fascists/nazis”, I am terminally online enough to read it as a figure of speech but it’s pretty clunky.

FWIW Israel are committing war crimes in Gaza and protesting at Glastonbury where there are lots of eyeballs watching makes sense. I just find the rhetoric a bit clumsy if you are chanting words that sound catchy but don’t mean to use them in their normative sense.

I wish I had some to hand but I tend to look them up ad hoc when I’m arguing with strangers for imaginary internet points

Yeah I agree it’s hard to say anything definitively. Especially if you are an armchair physician like me who read abstracts for random papers online.

I’ve read some studies that suggest people dying of lung cancer save the NHS money. They take up a lot of money in a lump sum but it tends to be incurable and kills them quite quickly. The alternative is people getting dementia or other degenerative cares and living for decades with round the clock care.

Oh well on the bright side we’ll save a lot of money on late life social care

I got the light version of this as a joke birthday present. It plugs into a USB slot and makes an anemic light source. Haven’t used it much in summer but it might have some limited utility in winter.

I think people find driving stressful because they struggle to operate machinery more than they are comfortable to admit

I do think that we are taking in too many people from around the world at the moment but I also think this sounds like a reasonable asylum claim. China does not treat its citizens well if they show any interest in politics.

The side-effects would need to be pretty extreme for the cost-benefit analysis to show using weight-loss drugs was more harmful than being obese.

I’m somewhat uncomfortable with the idea of muting some of our reward pathways in the brain though. Anecdotal reports so far have had people saying it has helped them with alcoholism and gambling in addition to losing weight, which makes me wonder if we’re using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. At the same time I don’t have a genetic disposition towards gaining weight so maybe I’d have a different opinion if I’d tried everything else to lose weight and had felt out of options before these drugs came along.