@Aella_Girl@InLuvWScience It used to be like that with poker! The stigma kept out loads of smart young men. Now it’s gotten respectable and it’s ruined.
@MartinKnight_ Jack Black. Was introduced by a friend who rattled off the names of several of his films to ask if I had seen them. Turned out I hadn’t seen a single one. When he got to High Fidelity I said that I had read the book.
@MSmith58282@JakeBenRichards@ShadowyPM@margarethodge What makes you think the money would be spent on anything remotely useful?
HS2 / bat tunnels
Hotels for bogus asylums seekers
Welfare for people who fake anxiety
That is where it will go. Better to leave it in private hands. Might be invested in something that does good.
@AndrewSabisky@thomasforth The best thing to revitalise the UK would be a shake-up of the planning system. Right now there is far too much local consultation and excess concern for the habitats of animals. HS2 should not have happened without planning reform first.
@AndrewSabisky@thomasforth I am of the generation that remembers DeLorean and the Humber Bridge. I would be very fearful of any move to abandon comparative advantage theory for the dream of politicians picking winners.