I like the economist drawing the conclusion that its the same size hole as the national insurance cuts, almost like the Tories willfully set everything on fire on their way out of the door.
Massively dumb of Labour to commit to not raising general taxation when it was evident that the Tories likely hadn't funded the national insurance cuts.
Ive had mine since 2014, worked well since then and I would consider getting another one if they would just do individual radiator controls like their other UK focused competitors. I have given up expecting Google to give Nest any real money to expand in this space so I shall be moving off the Nest eco system (I have a bunch of cameras as well) when the thermostat eventually fails.
My concern with this is that they have been cosying up to the likes of BlackRock so we'll see a for profit shared ownership scheme that will be just awful in practice and future governments can make it even worse.
For the private market all I want is simpler planning, a ban on building on flood plains, stricter regulations around new build sizing and construction, and taxing land banks at full value of any planning permission they hold or land value, which ever is higher.
Couple that with a mix of social housing based around council housing and not for profit social housing and we are good. However I cannot shake that they are trying to do this on the cheap up front and that costs us in the long term.
If Marko had a dollar for every time he had to do this he'd have two dollars as Yuki had to be told to stop playing on his playstation so much
I agree it was terrible management from the team during the race, they were begging Lando to move over rather than say what we saw during the end of the Nico/Lewis era at Merc. That nastiness is a golden example of why if you agree before the race to do something you absolutely have to stick to it, and why letting them race will eventually boil over into the unacceptable once the honeymoon of "this is fun" is over. Charles and Carlos were pretty sick of each other earlier this season when going wheel to wheel, another honeymoon over now that Carlos is under real pressure to find a new seat.
And they did agree to it before the race, thats the key thing here. Not sticking to what you agreed before the race is far far worse.
I ran Qubes for a while, really enjoyed the way it integrated windows so I could use MS Office (mandatory job requirement) as apps rather than a VM as I normally do. I realise you can do something similar with Winapps for Linux but to have it baked in was rather nice.
I don't like team orders but banning them just doesn't work as there are so many grey areas to trigger them, so they are a part of the sport.
The biggest thing is that this would have been agreed before the race, if McLaren were serious bout giving Lando the win at the expense of his teammte as with Ferrari in Micheals day, it would be been agreed no later than the Sunday morning brief. The fact that it was not, means that Lando had already agreed to abide by any team orders benefiting Oscar. Landos engineer even said as such over the radio to him as this played out.
By not abiding by what was pre agreed means a complete lack of trust from the Team and Oscar, it also builds in an expectation for Oscar to behave the same when the situation is reversed, in both directions. McLarens biggest strength over Red Bull is that they have two great drivers, Red Bull only have one this season. They will gain more working as a unified team than what Max can achieve on his own.
People can suggest that Lando should be more selfish, but the ideal time to get that nailed down is during your contract negotiations as with Micheal and his Ferrari teammates, or Max and Checo. Failing that you can try during the race weekend before the actual race, but it is going to be much more difficult especially when you have two drivers who are told they are number ones.
This is going to keep happening as the cars are a lot closer at the front than they have been for years unless the FIA start clamping down on it. You can't overtake if you can't make the corner and you cannot make the corner if you lock up both fronts because you went it far too hot. Even if Lewis braked to a standstill Max would have still locked up and over shot as he did earlier in the race
Ever since it got expensive. It also used to be possible to get it pre approved but heads are reluctant to do so now even if it for something special.
However it was being used by schools to hide chronic persistent absence, just massage the figures for those kids who take a lot of time off by saying some of it was "approved" holidays.
In reality all it does it is protect the vastly inflated holiday prices out of term time as parents have to balance the cost of the fine vs. money saved on the holiday.
What happened between Lance and Fernando?
It's only an issue if it's like that because it's been grounded against some rocks. If you are worried check the keel bolts and if you aren't comfortable doing that pay for a surveyor to do it for you, would take them like less than 10 minutes.
If I was a large institutional investor with a significant amount of cash tied up in Tesla stock I would be concerned about Musk selling off his shares en mass and tanking the share price. Musk has shown nothing but how petty he can be even if it hurts himself when he doesn't get what he wants