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The replacement funding has been "pledged". https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8527/ So no worries there. Bound to go to those that need it most. It's been promised.

My Dad used to serve us banana doused in lemon juice with a curry, back in the early 80s. He's not from Edinburgh though, but he is from the south of Fife and you can see Edinburgh from there. Tasted fine if i remember rightly.

Great, that will help exports. Got to love the complete idiocy of thinking that having a strong currency means "good". Although it should offset some of the increase in euro denominated imports and make US imports cheaper. Which will mean that our beef from normal sized cows will stand no chance in the market against their juiced up freaks.

I wouldn't suspect any of the current hibs posters. Recently banned ones however.....

They sound great. Much better than yapping incessantly about shite.

How do your duvet covers go on then? Do you get someone in?

The UK actually wastes an absolute fortune on all the humdrum routine stuff too through the magic of outsourcing procurement. Why pay £50 to get a pair of boots when you can secure a supply for £150 a pair and a future consultancy/directorship for the minister of defence.

Was a good tackle though, he'd got in a dangerous position and looked odds on to score.

True. However, Greg Stewart had been good that very season the second time around.

I thought it sounded harsh

I think we've a big enough management team as a business that the football people can stay on football stuff while commercial people stay on commercial stuff. Maybe the chairman /chief exec are less focused on football matters but evidence suggests it might be good if they stay out of it.

Complete coincidence surely. Different people's jobs unless you think McInnes has been out trying to sign a proven electrical contractor instead of an attacking midfielder?

The trouble with monetising your data is that it's not an exclusive good, like physical goods. So amazon having it won't stop google getting it from them or a third party for less than they'll pay you. So you'd need a legal framework that gives you ownership and the ability to exploit that and then digital rights management to enforce that ownership. Firms dealing with data for hundreds of millions of users can afford the contracts and the drm. I'd guess most people's data isn't worth more than three figures in total, individually, which would make the lawyers fees and software prohibitive. So you'd need collective action of some sort.

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I like your theory. I think your conclusion is a bit of a jump from the evidence you've presented but it could be worth more work. It's definitely an interesting point about the homogenisation of production. Less convinced by the footballer thing though. I think there's an underlying truth in there. I'd guess that some things just happen under any stable system because of economic logic (the standardisation), and some things are common features that derive from human nature. Our biology compels us to seek power over others and resources, information lets us do that, so in any system those with the power to obtain and use it will do so.

Can't or won't? Spaniels are friendly, it can't be that hard.

A naked, sweaty Danny Devito escaping from a sofa is an image i can never forget.

I've two young daughters, both mixed race, and they've grown up the last few years with there being black and female superheroes as standard. They've never known different. I think it's just great, it really is.

I'd like to congratulate Glaswegians on being freindly. Some achievement.

I took a day off last week and told her about it after lunch at about 2pm. She then answered her own question. "why didn't you tell me? We could have done something together"

So what you're saying is Stewart Milne saved Scottish football. The man's a visionary.

Rangers winning the league is... ... A first. Well done guys!

I think that idea comes from "free market" Tories with a victorian-era fetish who want to shrink the state and especially the state's spending on poor people. They are aided by a complicit media staffed by careerist morons who regurgitate briefings as news. The 3/4 never really needs to be paid back. For a household analogy, it's like having a money printer that you own and you just keep a tab as to how much you "owe" it. It's an accounting fiction with no basis in reality. The 1/4 that is funded by outside lenders that could need paid back. But an overdraft isn't a good analogy because they're usually high interest. Most gilts at the moment have negative real interest rates so the government is getting paid to borrow. There is a risk that when those need refinanced that rates will be higher, so they shouldn't just borrow un needed amounts. Imagine your overdraft had an interest rate of 2% and you only ever dipped into it to pay for courses that would increase your wages by 5% at a time. Even if you never paid it back it would be worth borrowing. Your debt and interest would go up but as a percentage of earnings it would decrease. Even if your consumption increases in line with your earnings so you never have spare cash, you can increase your overdraft to increase your income. And if the bank decides they do want their money, you can always print some for them. So there's a large chunk that's not really borrowing at all and a large chunk that will always be manageable and repayable if really necessary.

Everyone knows the government has had to spend more because of covid. The governmant has borrowed something like £320bn. But it has borrowed £270bn of that from the bank of England, which is owned by the government. The bank of England has "printed" that money. They create it out of thin air and don't borrow it. So if you were to view the government and the Bank of England as one unified entity (which in substance they are), the government has printed most of the money they have spent on covid and not borrowed it from outside lenders.

We could always just drop the pretence that the deficit was debt funded rather than an a monetary expansion. >3/4 of gilts were acquired by the BoE. https://www.omfif.org/2021/01/the-bank-of-england-nearly-financed-the-deficit-does-it-matter/