UK Labour are too Tory for me.
Absolutely right.
It doesn't matter who you vote for now. I don't think it ever has (except perhaps in 1945). Social change in this country happens outside parliamentary politics. One of the big lies that we've allowed to become accepted is that changes to society happen as a result of MPs debating in parliament. They don't.
Westminster politics is an entertainment used to distract us from taking action .
Is there any chance that Amazon could quietly remove this show and pretend it didn’t exist? I feel it was all some terrible dream.
Jeffrey Hunter is pretty wooden in the role (as are almost all the actors in The Cage). He comes across as a flat, somewhat listless characters with issues with women. Anson Mount plays the role with a much better sense of the humanity of Pike.
I'd love to see a literal remake but there are scenes that just wouldn't work (eg. the creepy scene where the young female ensign speaks to him).
You are right about this and it's something I'd not given any thought to. Checking out your recommendations. Thank you.
It’s been reported in several places. For example:
“Despite its problems, owners of the chain, led by the Wilkinson family, took £3m in dividends in the 12 months to the end of February 2022.”
The article didn’t mention that the shareholders - mostly the Wilkinson family - were essentially looting the company while it was in financial trouble.
I won’t be surprised if the owners had been funnelling money out of Wilco for years.
Another case of greed impacting on the jobs of ordinary people.
Shrinkflation!
I'd be interested to know whether this will have an actual monetary gain for MS or whether it's a panic response to falling revenues.
Just listening to a piece on the radio about food poverty and the frequent reference to not being hungry as a "benefit" was horrific. So much in our society is normalised that is just so wrong.
It will. Even if we could imagine a completely free, properly-networked public transport infrastructure, people would also need access to vehicles conveniently without having to own one.
Cars in UK (and probably all countries really) are like guns in the US. Suggesting that they give up theirs for a greater good is seen as some sort of immasculising curtailment of their God-given freedom.
At some point cars became a symbol of individualism. The number of people (men, really) I've worked with who insist on "buying" a new car every year was astonishing. Cars got bigger and bigger and flashier and flashier. All on finance though. Seemed like a weird, maschocistic addiction to me. Almost like they'd been brainwashed into car consumption.
What we actually need is a completely free at point of use public transport system. Break the weird car addition and help deal with the climate crisis.
Just reported that - yes - the family were looting Wilco for years. £77 million funnelled out of the company.
Wilco paid 77m to owners before collapse