So growth higher than expected and inflation lower than expected. Net migration and small boat numbers also down. It’s still tough for many families but these statistics are going in the right direction.
While the world’s media obsesses over every spit and fart from the White House over Iran, and Trump’s endless commentary on talks and deals and negotiations, the 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 war he said he would solve in 24 hours continues unabated … and in addition to benefiting from the oil price rise and lifting of sanctions Putin has also unleashed the largest 24 hour aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began. Almost 1000 drones. A UNESCO world heritage site hit. A maternity hospital hit. Residential buildings hit. Several killed. Dozens injured. Barely registers on the news. This war must not be forgotten
Wow! After Donald Trump mocked Gavin Newsom and other people with dyslexia and learning disabilities, Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, just completely torched him.
The end is the best part.
Every couple of months I feel contractually obligated to remind you why I hate Dragon Age: The Veilguard:
• Three games worth of choices? Basically irrelevant.
• Your world states from Origins, DA2, and Inquisition? Decorative.
• Years of carefully built lore? Compressed into “the elves did it.”
• Except wait! Not even the elves, because now the Executors (a secret Illuminati faction we’ve never heard of) have apparently been manipulating events behind the scenes the entire time.
So congratulations:
Illusion of choice ×1000.
But wait, there’s more:
• The Chantry/Maker mystery—one of the most interesting religious conflicts in the setting—basically sidelined.
• The Old Gods/Archdemons lore thread that fueled the entire Blight storyline? Suddenly background noise.
• Decades of political tension between nations like Orlais, Ferelden, and Tevinter reduced to set dressing.
• The morally gray world that made Origins special replaced with something that feels way safer and flatter.
• Characters constantly explaining the lore instead of letting the world breathe.
• The tone shift that makes the setting feel less like dark fantasy and more like fantasy theme park dialogue.
Ten+ years of buildup and mysteries and it all boils down to:
“Actually there was an even more secret secret group controlling everything.”
Amazing. Glad the last three games were basically optional reading.
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