Agreed.
Expensive products are far from any guarantee of good quality. Cookers are a good example. The expensive ones invariably have identical components to the cheaper models such as the energy regulators or thermocouples.
It’s a shame wages weren’t keeping pace.
That’s one lucky alignment shot indeed.
Yes
It’s very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It’s all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven’t watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.
It’s been happening before Brexit. The Tories hate the NHS and want to replace it, as you say, with a private healthcare system. However, saying so publicly would be political suicide so the NHS has been gradually privatised within by outsourcing backroom services to the private sector. Having said that Brexit has not helped the NHS.
Such privatisation has failed in a lot of cases.
Here’s a list of such services privatised.
The common phrase “The NHS will remain free at point of use” is used to side step accusations of privatising the NHS.
So that Zombie apocalypse could still happen.
Chip shops will go the same way as pubs.
I think this story will be around for a while.
Liz Truss makes for a better parody version of herself than the best comedian. She’s is so inept in public.
Pretty much sums up the UK since 2010.
One of the best drama series I’ve seen.
Hollow threats. Go.
Mmm Gerhard Schroeder and Russia rings a bell …
Why Gerhard Schröder won’t unfriend Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s pal Gerhard Schröder won’t be kicked out of Germany’s Social Democrats
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
40 lines here. Using Boost For Lemmy on Android phone. Nicely intentioned but it is somewhat intrusive in its layout.
Not a surprise. The quality has dropped, they’ve priced themselves out of the market so that ordinary cafes (diners) are cheaper.
The clue might be France.
Closing corporate tax loop holes will help a fair bit. I doubt much has changed since this article in 2012.