@BigDickBarclay Volts are joules per coulomb of charge; Pascals are joules per cubic metre of fluid. I think it's a very good analogy, at least until you're at quite an advanced level.
@ded6ajd The scores can go up or down, but you would only bother requesting a remark if you were close to going up, which means that you are not close to going down.
@ketchupvmustard I would imagine it's easier to have a policy of always doing this, even if it means some very famous people get their pictures put up!
@LoinDuTribu I'm fascinated by people thinking this could be the worst academic fraud ever. Even if everything they think is true were true, Arday wouldn't even be in the same league as, e.g. Andrew Wakefield in terms of the seriousness and impact of their academic dishonesty.
@redhotnerd When I saw this headline my first thought was exactly that: how the FUCK do you get salmonella in granola?? I have to assume there's some guy walking around the factory wiping a raw chicken breast on things ๐
@SandyofSuffolk On the first point: however you define the class "foreigners" to exclude, you could no longer connect National Insurance contributions from the same group. You almost certainly lose more money from foreigners in work that you gain by removing benefits.
@BruceHistorian It really is the assessment version of Churchill's take on democracy, isn't it? There is a lot not to like about pen and paper, timed and invigilated exams but every alternative has even bigger, more serious problems.
Reform might, and presumably hope to, be in government in three years time. If so, I suspect they will rapidly discover that a lot of the things they are saying now haven't been done yet because they're very complex and difficult.
As far as I can figure out, Reform's announcement on PIP etc boils down to a nebulous idea that they'll have some magic way of assessing entitlement more accurately, to remove the payment from those claiming it "falsely" while ensuring those who genuinely need it still get it.
(b) Reform, specifically (this applies to the Greens too) have a single-digit number of MPs and aren't yet *really seriously* contending for a parliamentary majority. They can promise whatever sounds popular to their base without too much care for whether it works in real life.