You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to Europe. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?
🚨 Online traffic to the entire European far-right collapsing after a successful Ukrainian attack on a Russian data centre feels like quite a big story.
Research by economists at NYU found that compulsory petrol price transparency in Germany reduced petrol prices by around 3% and diesel prices by 2%.
Very sensible pro-consumer policy here to put pressure on retailers to compete!
While all drinks are essentially raised by 20c in Ireland this scheme works brilliantly and the place is much cleaner. It’s been around forever in Germany also. It should be a scheme everywhere.
From October 2027, eligible bottles and cans will come with a refundable 20p deposit.
One interesting bit: you won’t need a receipt, and the person returning the container can claim the refund even if they didn’t buy it.
So 50 eligible containers could be worth £10.
We’ve broken down how the new Deposit Return Scheme will work here 👇
https://t.co/MkotpJbxP6
Anthropic: Claude has a soul
Leo: nah
Anthropic: please say Claude has a soul
Leo: nah, here’s a book length explanation why that’s not true
Anthropic: we’re pretty sure Claude has a soul
Leo:
I do wonder if politicians on the right understand just how flat the “he’s taking us back to the 70s” sounds.
Much of the electorate has no memory at all of the politics of that era. They do have sharp memories of what we have had recently. And many conclude anything might be better.