FFS Iain, I read your guff for a little light escapism, not the raw emotion of howling into the void. I have enough of that in my own life.......
Have you considered a Sim City 2000 blog? I'd happily read that too. Sim Tower? Sim Ant? Please. Something...

Magnum's masculinity isn't ideological. He simply *is* a sexy, goofy, confident icon of his gender without telling us about it.

Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.

And don't say "they use the same local services". Council tax is only slightly about local services. Mostly it's funding social care.

The self-pitying articles, bemoaning the decline in [country's] attractiveness to migrants, which will appear in newspapers that have spent years whipping up anti-migrant sentiment are going to be particularly hard to stomach.

That means we'll need to extend the trench......

I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.

And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5

This is all why we're here no? That, and to reflect on the disgust at ourselves and our refusal to give up on our journeyman European colossus Port Vale team in FM13 😳

A Labour Party which takes middle class professionals’ money, comes after their job perks, and rejects their values, then asks “why are these people turning against us?”

There is a small chance that the AI investment pays off a lot AND that is somehow monetized and the IP protectable. There is an extremely large chance that solar pays off [it's paying off right now] for China and the rest of us [relative to the counterfactual carbon emissions.

Oh, come on now Iain. You already know that deep-down you want this to be a "collapsing Goodison to Ibra" extended narrative.
Get the notepad out and start scribbling those names, ages and contract expiry dates.