Real living Wage has never tracked NMW closely - NMW has jcaught up in the last few years.

And Real Living Wage is based on a single income l, living alone, outside of London (or any core city really), without children and non disabled. That's not most people. Or any (other) definition of average

Fortunately the Jam gave us an alternative use of the riff youtu.be/vI8AOkbfgNE?...

And (relatedly) that it's much harder for whole professions to go on strike

Remembering the time I confused a Black bean paste for a black bean sauce when cooking for friends. Only time I've told my guests to stop being polite and just let me order a takeaway replacement

It'd be like when a new VHS was released in the nineties

I take it back. Not all, but it's the most common approach

Indeed. There’s a weird type of person who just can’t seem to compute that some people actually just like living in cities.

Extra housework, but it also might rain

Even better, my office has four Hannahs and three Michael's. The speculation!

Id my niece is any indication, it ends and then becomes a Minecraft phase. Which is a change at least

It's soecifically automatically a form of unfair dismissal to fire someone for doing Jury Service, but not sure about withdrawing a job offer

Workers Rights is the perfect example of why this doesn't work. If you have an employment in your working life, a half remembered, simplified version of what your rights *were* at least a decade go (ignoring all the changes in technology and policy) isn't much use. In fact, it could be harmful!

Can you imagine it? 'They claimed for a room when it is was perfectly possible to do as an 8 hour round trip!' 'A Nandos?! Anyone with any sense of public service would have made a pot noodle using the hotel room kettle three nights in a row'