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Agree Stephen god all the reasons you list. And panels flow much better as a result.

Not to tread on my own pay-off, but I think the being-stupid-about-AI problem goes quite a long way up the intelligence spectrum.

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If countries deliberately reduce their workforces as populations age it will cause endemic economic failure.

I can’t grow anything but Xmas trees on my flat roof because everything else gets dug up by squirrels..! 😳

I spent YEARS counting calories. Would be fine for two days then by day three I was so HUNGRY. And anxiety meant I used food to knock down cortisol. But weight loss happened easily with Mounjaro.

How do you stop all the bird food from being eaten by squirrels?

The later part of the piece is good. The ‘it’s easy to lose weight, you just need to pay attention to what you eat’ part is infuriating.

Farage has shown how an effective campaigner can make large parties dance to your tune. And yet…

It is something I find so deeply odd. Because the fury about being outside the EU is still there. The professional classes are profoundly angry with the lack of economic understanding and yet there is so recognition of this among the major parties.

As a pensions journalist it could be the move from pensions deficits to surplus due to changes in bond yields and that adding to the value of overseas corporations balance sheets?

Labour ministers need to acknowledge that reality. Raising GDP growth is impossible without addressing the trade-related problems. And, my own view is that this cannot be done without more ambitious improvements to the UK’s most important trading partner – the EU. /23

This week's UK-EU "reset" deal, while it might help on the margins (eg, trade in food products and energy flows), won't shift the growth dial. It simply won't address the complex underlying dynamics at play. /24

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