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Seems surprising to me. I've not swiped a UK card in many years. Honestly can't remember the last time. It's curious you're seeing so many stripe fallback incidents. Is this a USA …

Yup - and this is where we're at with car safety too. Car marque CEOs are free to say "Yeah, it'll cost hundreds of millions to fix, it's cheaper to pay out per death for a rare ev…

Because people who you want to come and work in the UK won't bother coming if it's hostile. The quality immigrants will simply not bother turning up. There are not the British bodi…

You can get residential interest only mortgages - at least here in the UK. I used to have one, but remortgaged to repayment ten years ago. It's quite common to see "buy to let" mor…

Unsure if it's law in the UK - but every UK supermarket I've visited has price per 100g / kg / litre / 100ml on every product. Rather amusingly (to me!), lavatory paper has a price…

The author talks about many aspects of traveling in London as though they are novel. Signs to hold on to the handrail, or to report antisocial behaviour are not new in London - and…

Oi. Fife isn't ENTIRELY about bowling clubs and dogging.

Are you having a stroke?

NHS practices are private businesses, which are contracted to provide NHS services. That's why there's the complex business of 'partners', which buy into the "business".

The rest of the civilised world manages just fine.

At a tangent - I'm quite worried about software licencing costs due the divergence in fortunes of the USA and the UK. As a UK small business, we've seen software licencing rises be…

Ah got you. I live in the Scottish countryside where property is cheap. Forgot about insane city prices.

While I'm inclined to agree - I wonder why you are still in a basement if you're renting? Surely the benefit of renting is the ability to quickly change living environment as you w…

You don't need to be an immigrant. Vegetables are cheap in UK supermarkets. 1kg carrots - 39p https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-carrots-2... 2.5kg potatoes - £1 ht…

Even within BBC News, there is notably different content between the World Service and home stations.

Only if they're aware that the information was manipulated.

Counting spots? Not the biggest challenge for a robot. I wonder if there are any disability legal concerns with this?

Agreed - although remember the MOT only starts once the car is there years old. There is no MOT for the first few years. Also, and more of an edge case, there are some vehicles tha…

That's insane. I'm in Scotland and this sort of maintenance is just part of my council tax bill. Shared with everyone else in my county.

The Spanish manage?

Indeed. It's a very strange argument - sidewalks require significantly less to sustain. For a start, the build quality can be a lot lower - a sidewalk doesn't need to support lorri…

They also have a good podcast on this. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49

Contemplate suicide? Four post masters actually did it - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/post-office-scandal-worke...

It does sound insane, but sometimes these things are founded. Just a few months ago, a local government body finally awards as millions to someone their formed chief executive had …

I'm afraid my experience is with local companies, so unless you're in the central belt if Scotland, it won't be much use. The two companies I'm thinking of recruit only for IT. If …