Not sure I care anymore. The UK is for the wealthy only and we can only try to struggle through, whether it's through inflation, poorer services or more tax. Until we address the power dynamics, wealth inequality and tax havens (City of London, Jersey, Guernsey, etc), I could nor give a flying fuck what inflation is quarter to quarter. Prices and housing costs are already fucked

I'm really torn about this. We want police by consent and to have some discrepancy to do the right / moral thing but don't want to give them too much power to choose what laws they enforce. You don't want Nazi type "just following orders" but you don't want them targeting left-wing protestors more because they lean right-wing (the Met police at least who let's not forget, targetted/target women, queer people, black people, etc much more than the right wing)

The laws are made by Parliament and the current labour government should take the full blame for proscribing this group. The anti terrorism laws are so harsh that I can believe the police had no choice but to arrest them.

The absurdity of arresting the numbers they did, the type of people they did, and this £10m cost should have made the government change the law itself.

London under his mayorship has seemed to improve dramatically but to be honest, the mayor has quite limited powers compared to other International Mayors. He has pushed for things that would not have happened but the whole system is split across local Boroughs (32 of them with different demographics and priorities, plus the mess of the City of London), the London Assembly, the London Mayor executive branch, and the national Government.

Given these splits, you only really hear about candidates from the main parties who have resources to publicise them and you know you can guess their general politics just from their party so easier to choose them.

Has the usage of ebikes as a proportion of cycling gone up by that same amount, more or less? Without knowing that it's meaningless. I couldn't find anything in the article to conform that

There is no set meaning for it. It could refer to a wall of text, the top few lines on your CV or another name for a cover letter. Does it have a word limit to help figure out what it is?

If it's a beefy bit of text, aim for just under that amount of text. Go through the job description and cover all the points in there, and refer to previous experiences (could be within work, uni, school, volunteering, anything really, tbh could make it up or exaggerate an event) to demonstrate that skill of requirement. Try to use I did x rather than we or x happened. In the examples, you could have something that went wrong and what you did to fix it. (E.g needs to be a team player in job description becomes I work well with team members by listening to the input from others and also putting my point of view across where relevant and helpful. For example, in my final year at university we did a group project on x. Two of my team members got into an argument about which direction to go. I talked to both of them to calm down and as a group, I encouraged everyone to evaluate each idea by the positives as well as areas of improvement. That way, we were able to take the best option for the group and move forward to complete the project.) Or some bollocks like that...

Don't use AI to blindly write it. You can use it top give you examples of what to put in or to proof read but chances are 90% of people will just use AI which they'll be able to tell and they'll sound the same so not using it will stand out.

Don't spend too much time and effort unless you really really want the job. They'll be mostly skimmed through if read at all.

I'm all for this. The arts really suffered for years under austerity and cut backs. Right now it feels like enjoyment only for the rich (who can afford tickets, can afford not to work or nepostism). The UK has deep cultural heritage and needs to nurture and develop it in all parts or society.

Not a domestic terrorist because of ... reasons

Sounds awful! Half the point of beans is that you know what you're getting and it works for certain dishes. If you want to upgrade them you can but it needs to be the same starting point. I love masala beans (something like https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/masala-beans but my own version) from time but a herby mix would be horrible. I'm not doing that for an English brekky though, just a bit of brown sauce on the side.

I am slightly surprised Heinz scores so high as expected some of the own brands are the same but cheaper. Not going to lie though, it is my favourite so I wait for a deal then stock up.

What really surprises me is that Holland and Barret have their own brand?!? Does it come with extra vitamins or some health claims that it cures leprosy?

You don't necessarily have to make a profile. It's just a section of the site to search for jobs but you need to be logged in. Some of them you can apply using your linkedin profile info (I think it'll ask for anything missing) but mostly it just links to the companies own website advert where you apply directly.

Be careful with the adverts by recruiters. I have a specialist job and have actually had more luck with recruiters, which I found through these adverts but it depends on the industry. I still found some lied to get contacts or sent me stuff completely different to what I asked for.

I have to say, companies take the piss now so be prepared to be annoyed. You have to set up an account for each company, upload your CV but they still ask for all the info to be put in manually, each slightly differently. Half of them use Workday but you still need separate accounts for each, and they have slightly different questions.

Then they don't bother to respond unless they want to progress or sometimes you get an automatic rejection after several months. You have no idea if the job already has several candidates in progress, if they have someone internal but their policy means they have to advertise the job, or god knows what else. Try not to get yourself down if you don't get any responses. It's really normal. It just becomes a numbers game so try to apply for x number of jobs each day or week, and you will hopefully find the right advert at the right time.

Some really good tips on here I agree with. Also you could check out LinkedIn jobs. Lots of companies post their jobs on there directly and also recruitment agents use it

And better air quality because of ULEZ and maybe 20mph zones (https://www.london.gov.uk/media-centre/mayors-press-releases/new-evidence-reveals-all-londoners-are-now-breathing-cleaner-air-following-first-year-expanded-ultra), another right wing complaint.

Problem is facts don't seem to matter (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_Leave_bus)

You are bloody unlucky to have 3 tyre punctures in the last little while! In 20 years of driving, I've had 3 punctures. Are you purposefully driving over sharp gravel or am I particularly lucky?!?

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In what sense? It's pretty hard to compare a Saturday afternoon in Trafalgar Square vs Canary Wharf vs Burgess Park to a Tuesday morning rush hour time in those same places.

It's a massive global city with anything you can possibly want to do or eat, with some amazing areas to some shit areas and everything in between! It can sometimes be crazy, hectic, busy, expensive but theres a reason went millions of people live and/or work or travel there every single day.

It's not for everyone but that's fine. I know people who can't stand it, and I personally can't imagine living anywhere else. Most people fall somewhere in the middle though. Everything in life is a compromise in some way.

Currently, it's colourful and busy with Christmas lights, parties and markets. Crime feels the same it's ever done (generally pretty safe but you have to be careful). It's so much nicer to walk /cycle places than it used to be with wider pavements, pedestrian areas, cycling lanes etc. If you're driving, it's horrible. The tube older lines are still horrible but new Elizabeth line is amazing. Some suburbs have lots of flags up, some have none at all. The cost of everything is crazy - £8-9 for a pint typically.

"Criminal damage", of course. Of course the obtaining of the crown jewels was always completely moral, justified and legal, like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor signed over by an 11 year old is valid and definitely not a spoil of war...

I don't know how any company I've worked for would operate, especially when headquartered in another country. They'll just have to fire everyone in that country rather than compromise their security

Unfortunately theres a long lost of things we weren't taught in school in England. One of the biggest omissions in my view is Irish history, which is still so relevant to this day. On one hand you can't teach everything but on the other hand, there has to be room for this stuff.

Indians even fought in the western front in WW1, contrary to almost every documentary or film out there! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army_during_World_War_I

My great grandfather fought in the second world war but never talked about it. He died when I was a going teenager and really wish I could've asked him more. We only realised the extent of where he fought when we found his campaign medals after he passed away, one of which was Italy and we can guess was one of the more brutal campaigns. My mum and others said when they tried to talk about it he shut it down quickly though.

A lot of wider family fought in that war but we never brought it up or really talked about it until it was too late. One died recently and is in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/09/british-asian-families-share-stories-greatest-generation-fought-for-britain.

This made this Sunday more emotional for me as he's the last I know of who was part of that war but at least he got some respect for it and his story told, unlike others.

I was quite sad to see that someone had put up lots of union jacks and England flags on the war memorial near me that I stopped at to give thanks and tell my son about his ancestors who fought in it. My ancestors fought too and it was not Britain against the world. Let's leave the current divisive politics out of it so we can think of and appreciate anyone who picked up arms, traveled half way around the world, saw things and did things they should never have had to do.

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