bendan

So you're a regular viewer, then? I've managed quite easily to watch not one second of this channel since it started.

Is this post not a bit creepy in itself?

I wish MUP was a tax. At least the government would be getting some extra money. It would probably be a drop in the ocean compared to the harm alcohol causes in Scotland, though.

The true disaster of Brexit is the complete poisoning of relations with our neighbours, and yet we are still throwing petrol on the flames. Meanwhile everyone thinks the real litmus test will be the availability of pigs in blankets and Christmas trees.

I could be wrong, but I'd imagine a non-EU (e.g. UK) driver could get a work permit in quite a few EU states at the moment.

Given that EU states make their own policies on work/residence permit offers to non-EU nationals, even within the Schengen zone, that wouldn't actually be possible. The source is not a surprise, though.

How can that be sustainable for anything more than a couple of weeks?

I've never been to one, but everything I've seen makes me think I'd rather spend a weekend being waterboarded.

If you go on Tripadvisor and read about people's experiences in any city you've known as a resident, they mostly seem to spend their time in the most gash places around.

Wouldn't it be this lot? https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09562180

Doesn't make sense at all.

There are so many up it these days he barely notices any more.

I saw Checkpoint Charlie (from a distance) when it was a functioning check point, and I've seen it in its current role. It's a shite experience but it's all the people who make it shite. They could just knock it down, or fence it off and charge money for an 'interpreted experience,' but that would also be shite. To me the worst attractions are the shite ones specifically created as attractions, or the dull historical remnants to which a huge entry fee is now charged. Mannekin Pis and The Little Mermaid aren't really claiming to be what tourists expect them to be.

I agree. I actually like the idea of a Christmas market but the reality, in Edinburgh at least, is tacky as f***.

Most people in London never go out of their way to visit Norwich. Nor do most of them ever visit places like Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds or Newcastle unless they have to. I think that's actually part of the problem we have in the UK. I like going to random places in Scotland just to see if they are actually how I had previously perceived them to be.

Most HR processes nowadays try hard to avoid providing decision makers with any more information than they need to make a fair decision, because subconscious bias could well creep in.

Surely the problem is that though it provides insight that might help weed out a 'wrong un' it also provides a whole lot of irrelevant information that might result in a 'right un' being excluded.

You're making me doubt your judgement here.

Are there office environments that aren't stuffy, tense and weird? I haven't worked for Google, obviously.

I was totally with you in the first paragraph, but I'm fine with Aberdeen. Helps if the sun's shining, TBF.

Yes, but they would mostly be the female and ethnic-minority officers. I'm not surprised at all that we end up with police officers like this, but to me it's just a refection of the wider society. And I don't think Scotland is much different to England. I'm in my fifties now, but when I was younger pretty much every sphere of male life was dominated by misogynistic, racist, homophobic bullies. It wouldn't have been difficult for a psychopath to hide amongst them. Certainly easier than standing up to them. I was away from the UK for a long time, and to me the police seem to have improved in some ways but regressed in others, just like the rest of society.

I watched the second half of this, and quite a decent game. I've picked up one or two games over the last year - good to have access to this.

I read that first letter in the Guardian and I pretty much agree. A lot of Remainers who worked in professions largely insulated from competition from EU migration (because high-level English language skills are required, among other things) don't seem to have any empathy for people who literally saw their pay and conditions stagnate because of it. I don't think they'll be giving a **** if you now have only three kinds of tonic to choose from instead of the usual ten. Obviously any Brexiteers now complaining about supply issues have only got themselves and government incompetence to blame.

It's pretty amazing you could get 52% of the population to vote for something like Brexit without the vast majority of those 52% realising it was going to cause dislocation and disruption.