@davidallengreen @TimWardCam Before the introduction of the law degree, maths was a common first degree for lawyers. Maybe we should do that again.
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@vetjc @TimWardCam @armb @davidallengreen Perhaps it needs a new name, one that makes it more obvious that the courts should be on their guard against it.
@TimWardCam @davidallengreen Could be the next Lord Denning right there.
If you spent the last few years campaigning against the RNLI, the National Trust, the NHS, bicycles, loft insulation, railways and scones, please forgive my somewhat sceptical expression now that there's an election and you want to lecture me on Our Great British Way Of Life.
@ChrisMayLA6 Fixing corruption abroad is hard, though. If the UK government were desperate and cynical enough, an easier way to stop the boats would be to make Britain more corrupt than...
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@[email protected] @ChrisMayLA6 @ianbetteridge Foreigners can already buy property in the UK, and they do. (Helpfully, the pound is cheaper than it was before 2016, which makes it easier to outbid the locals.) If the point of all this is to "keep the furrins off are land", we don't need all this rigmarole about UBI and farmers. Direct transfers from the Treasury to large landowners would be much simpler to administer, and probably more effective.
@ianbetteridge @ChrisMayLA6 Pro-Brexit farmers were very visibly campaigning around my area in 2016. Maybe it balanced out elsewhere, and somewhere out there are farmers with a basic sense of self-preservation. Maybe. But there are millions of people suffering the economic impact of this idiocy. Why single out farmers, of all people, for help?
@ChrisMayLA6 After generations of breeding from the Young Farmers gene pool, British farmers are so ineffably dim that they festooned their fields with "Vote Leave" billboards, apparently without first asking their accountant where their income was coming from. Paying people like that to stand in fields planting potatoes (rather than letting them try their hand at banking, running the NHS or flying airliners) might count as a public good, but there must be cheaper forms of outdoor relief.
@ChrisMayLA6 Someone needs to tell them what "universal" means. This isn't UBI, it's just another subsidy for a politically well-connected group.
@CatherineFlick Oh, absolutely. But UK schools are a tiny part of what the company does. We're all looking at that headline 30% figure, which relates to all sorts of activity, 2/3 of it in N America, and drawing dire conclusions about UK school meals. Global profits went sharply down in 2020/21 (hurrah!) and came back up again in 2022/23 (boo!). The figures for Le Manoir probably look fairly similar, so I'm not convinced that that in itself tells us very much about the quality of school meals.