Bedford Borough Council investigating if some teddy bears are running an illegal cafe. This is what your council tax is going on.

Green Party. Celebrating this because it will keep the wrong sort (poor) of people out of their wealthy area.

The rules soldiers follow are distinct from ordinary law. Soldiers should be held to higher standards than the public by military courts and judges who specialise in and understand the rules and situations of being a soldier. Putting soldiers through civilian courts is a betrayal

The UK sovereign wealth fund shouldn't be based just on resource extraction revenue. Most of the money should be from national insurance contributions and it should work like a massive pension fund. There are already huge public sector pension funds which should be incorporated.

Failing to understand reverse causation like this deserves mockery but he was bereaved nine years ago so he’ll continue to be presented as an expert in TV studios forever.

Archive.org is amazing. Only a total arse would attack it.

Grocery stores operate on razor-thin margins. Where does she get the notion that they are price gouging us to enrich their executives? This is so detached from reality.

Credit cards are better in every possible way than debit cards. The only people who don't prefer them are people who can't manage their own spending.

Hello all, I'm going to start actually using this account. Expect many updates about my life.

Relatedly, the motto of Lloyd's of London's - the world's first insurer - is 'In Utmost Good Faith'. On a tour of their offices, a gentleman told me a perhaps apocryphal story: decades ago, a chap had come to Lloyd's to buy insurance for 25 cargo ships. By mistake, the contract only covered 24 ships. Of course, the ship that wasn't covered sank. Everything was lost. The ship owner showed up to see what could be done. The insurer who had underwritten the 24 ships said: "I had intended to cover all 25 ships. Had we gotten the paperwork right, I would be on the hook on. I will happily cover the losses." He acted in Utmost Good Faith. Silicon Valley tends to celebrate the companies that are best built in an opposing spirit, the Uber's of the world. To be clear, I'm happy Uber exists, and likely couldn't have been built In Utmost Good Faith. (Perhaps to some extent Lyft tried this, with less success). However, there are some companies that can only be built in a spirit of Utmost Good Faith.

‘Legal risk’ is always such a funny excuse in The UK because it’s a complete cop-out. Parliament is sovereign, if you pass the ‘Nationalise Thames Water Act’ no court could stop you. Total American cultural victory that Brits think they have an all-powerful Supreme Court