Take some time to watch this, then you should understand.

They’ve got shareholders to feed. Somebody has to pay their inflated dividends.

Actual teaching is not the main part of the job anymore. Teachers are being used as social workers, child minders, parents, filling in the gaps where others are not doing those roles. All of that is wrapped up in red tape.

I’m not a teacher but I looked into it a few years ago. After having our own kids late in life I got to see the hell that teachers go through and many leave for new careers.

All of this on top of the debt that people take on to pay for the training, on top of the debt taken on for a degree.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that this is happening.

Until Christmas the last time I went to a WH Smith’s was when they had a record section.

Called in this Christmas for a last minute board game and ended up buying on Amazon. The stores are tired and don’t seem to have a purpose.

I’m surprised the High Street stores have remained opened for this long. They were past their usefulness well over a decade ago and have been supported by their airport and hospital shops by ripping customers off.

Outdated. Expensive.

“planning, deregulation, energy and trade.” It’s the combination of deregulation and energy that troubles me. Didn’t the financial crisis of 2008 to now start with deregulation of the banks?

Ladies and gentlemen, the United States of America has gone rogue.

Golden showers

This just confirms that Zelenskyy has a way bigger ball count than Trump by two.

On the whole the pub chains, or breweries as they were once known, have themselves to blame. The pursuit of bigger profits through increased rents & leases and drinks prices have led to them being a luxury item. This started back in the mid nineties at the latest.

I remember small pubs being bought out, closed for a million pound refurbishment, reopened with a fanfare and new prices to match putting off customers. The supermarkets saw this and took advantage.

“Basic democratic principles and checks and balances will be largely undermined, the legislature, law enforcement and media will be robbed of their independence and misused as a political arm, Big Tech will be given co-governing power,”

This is an interesting read. It wouldn’t surprise me in decades to come it will be accepted knowledge as to how deep and extensive Russia has interfered with British politics and its workings; most notably Brexit, the Tories.

Designed by a seven year old with a broken crayon.

It would seem that Fujitsu doesn’t need to bid as it’s being handed the contract on a plate.

Car parking companies in the UK are close to being sanctioned theft.

If Putin wants no NATO then all he has to do is get his poodle, Trump, to invade Greenland …

“If they invade Greenland, they invade Nato,” says Svane. “So that’s where it stops. Article 5 would have to be triggered. And if a Nato country invades Nato then there’s no Nato.”

“He’s saying it’s legitimate for us to take this piece of land,” he says. “If we take him really seriously this is a bad omen for the whole of the Western alliance.”

I looked into a static caravan to rent out about ten years ago. Very quickly established, from one of the better operators, that when you add up their fees for this and that there are significant costs. The fine print usually states caravans must be no more than 10 years old and site has first option on buying back. The latter is where you lose a lot of money. As said that was one of the better sites.

It’s a mixed bag causing two divides.

The first affecting the business with the savings to be had on reduced office space requirements weighed up against perceived lower productivity.

The second, workers enjoying reduced travel costs and convenience but offset the home stops being a home and loneliness.

It’s basic Tory strategy.

Here’s a little explanation as to the differences with US chocolate.

The bit about Butyric Acid explains why US chocolate tastes literally like vomit; it’s the component in vomit that gives it the distinctive taste and smell.

When Hershey’s products came to the UK they initially had to be relabelled to reflect the extremely low cocoa content and be called “chocolate flavored candy bar”.

Ironically, the article references Cadbury.