@supracrepidity@eurorealist What is this sovereign remedy? It is to re-create the European family, or as much of it as we can, and provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe."
— Winston Churchill, September 1946
@TheCyberdevil iPlayer changes the facts of your assumptions. My daughter is 12 - born in 2013 - and adores Rose above all the others. And she knows them all. She also has not the slightest idea of what a broadcast schedule is, she just watches content agnostic of when it was created
@Towler Which faith aligns with your political choices? And lo, said the Messiah, we should send the fuckers back from whence they came. Matthew 25:35-40
@Towler Increased tobacco taxation was a deliberate tool to drive down use. It has worked with regular tobacco consumption falling by a third over the same period. It was designed to fall over time, it was the required output - Laffer curve is not a sensible illustration in this case.