It doesn’t highlight anything. It’s just an unsubstantiated assertion about how the private sector operates.

Are we sure the statement wasn’t “1 in 4 will pay? No! More tax!”

only issue with riding (MTB) in Aus is that others have stated, it’s a portion of a day drive away to get anywhere worth riding

I don’t know what the cool kids are calling categories now but there’s OMV in Hornsby for example. Plenty of cheeky trails in kuringgai. and that’s not talking about belanglo and whatever the place next to it is called. It depends where you’re starting from in Sydney too obviously

RIP Schrödinger’s cat (possibly)

and will be making very little use of public services including education in future is particularly fair.

Did you enjoy not being hacked to death by a band of highwaymen on the way into work today? Not being crushed by debris of falling planes? Not choking on toxic smoke? Not contracting smallpox or rubella? Reading the road signs? Having a proper phone signal? Walking along the roads? Not tripping over small children and the lame begging?

Yeah? Seems like you used a fair number of public services before you even clocked on…

It does happen. My friend was an active Democratic Party member and he told me the local Dems and Reps regularly registered on each other’s side to try and get the most loony candidate nominated. (This was for state politics – idk if he also meant it happened for presidential campaigns.)

nce in Tehran in August sitting on my desk and I’m just pondering it now. I’d like to go but the MrS isn’t too keen on me going.

Tehran would be a different kettle of fish, I think. (And my colleague is going to that same conference I suspect).

nyt story was headlined “Trump receives humbling defeat in Iowa”. I doubt it will humble him…

I seem to remember that UPS drivers in the USA are unionised as well, and consequently it’s seen as a reasonable job that pays a wage you can live on. (I might be wrong).

Trump and Sanders both lost to “machine” politicians.

activist group with deep pockets could bring a private prosecution against the Yodel directors.

You’re overstating the meaning of “having regard to”.

The trouble is companies are avoiding minium wadges via the zero hours and “self employed” method of payment.

Exactly. Yodel only exists because it circumvents minimum wage requirements by formally using independent contractors, and pushing the cost of labour, fleet, maintenance, insurance etc onto them, in return for a tiny flat fee per drop. Yet in reality and in substance we know that those drivers are really employees: they mostly spend all day delivering whatever volume of parcels is given to them by Yodel.

No matter how hard they try, it is impossible to make a living wage from delivering parcels at 60p a drop – and everyone else subsidises those low-earning “self-employed” people through the benefits system. We are all paying to maintain Yodel’s profit margins.

…said Yodel’s Director of Public Relations.

I am astonished that the Telegraph wasn’t interested in this story and didn’t carry it in its newspaper or on its website

Holy cow! Just read that someone shot Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. this won’t have many implications for anyone else in the world but it’s be big news for us Bosnians.

…but obviously you can’t put a price on the “freedom” of being self-employed

Greggs and Starbucks minifranchise – they’re both fair trade

I see the Yodel website is offering a lot of exciting opportunities to earn £30-50 a day delivering parcels six days a week in your own taxed, insured and fuelled car in That There London (average rent: £49/day).

does anybody go to a coffee shop to spend several hours there and drink several coffees?

Yes. Loads of people.

I am flabbergasted to learn that “self-employed” drivers paid little to do a stressful job with no safety net are not more dedicated to their craft.

Starbucks prices aren’t lower, though. They’re a fairly expensive place to buy a fairly ordinary coffee

So if it’s not the coffee that gets people through the door of Starbucks, what is it?

. I want the friend do do a polygraph though

Polygraphs are about as scientific as rear wheel hub motors and chiropractors…bollocks but they have their defenders.

I gave a regular user off here some hayes brakes as he (said he) needed them for his girlfriend’s bike.
He added a couple of rotors and sold them in the STW classifieds the following week.

Pitchforks! Pitchforks! Get your pitchforks here!

1. Corporation tax is a direct tax on capital and the Wealthy.

No, it’s not. hth

9.5/10 trolling. Excellent.

Ooh Hey Jude? Wow, just wow.

You won’t believe how Hey this Jude is
One Hey to a tiny Jude
I’m just going to Hey this Jude right here
On that day, no Judes were Heyed
Have we Heyed Jude?
What tyres for Heying Jude?

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Yes, it’s true – she does claim child benefit for her kids.

but are hamstrung by being out-gunned by the contractor’s specialist bid and legal team

It doesn’t help when some contractors systematically bribe ministries of defence and their political overlords.

Type 7

You are an NHS “Angel” and I claim my five pounds

Has anyone else noticed that everyone else is an idiot and I’m incredibly superior in every way?

Sorry – thought I’d skip straight to the subtext of this thread.

People get a lot of pleasure out of cat owning. Kids learn from owning a living creature, getting smeared in maggoty cat shit

Surely you should be patronising a certain cycle boutique in Glasgow? :D

There’s a group of three ladies at our school who drive in their >1 year old 4x4s, lift £4k road bikes off the back, drink coffee for an hour or two at the school’s coffee shop and then head off for a ride. I’ve followed them on Strava and, well, their rides are usually less than 10km at a 7km/hour

#stalker

As an aside, did anyone just hear Any Questions where there were two successive questions:

1) what would you do to improve oecd numeracy and literacy ranking? Unanimous answer: let teachers teach without interference

2) should that headteacher have told parents to come to school properly dressed? Unanimous answer: noooo,there are more important things, she shouldn’t have…

Gaaah, well, which is it, you bastards? Either we let teachers use their latitude and initiative to do what they judge their schools and kids need, or we don’t! Very annoying.

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All the same, they’ll just fit up the boogie like usual

And how do you deal with people who dont like having your pet roaming around in their gardens/sheds/houses

Pet ASBOs?

much as I’d advocate a “buy British” approach, the government should have awarded the conversion contract to General Dynamics and snubbed BAe until they get their act together

BAE Systems isn’t even that British. They and the House of Saud were able to get Tony Blair to shut down the bribery investigation though. Does Tony Blair do any consulting for influential Saudis since he left office, I wonder?

#itmakesyouthink

house price obsessed nimbys in this country.

Bah

Too many multinational corporations whacking up fugly structures to make more money

Isn’t it all a bunch of arse because all they’re doing is rebranding the minimum wage as the living wage?

iirc the living wage was developed by unions to show the difference between the min wage and the amount you a jelly need to live on

Good luck!

Half of these retail banks didn’t even compete with each other in the same geographic market so their merger increased competition, not reduced it

There is no shortage of retail banks in the US. My old local town/village has its own private commercial bank! There are also zillions of credit unions.