If you gave me this data in my day job, well, first I would say "did you mean to email the Treasury?" but secondly I would say "this is pretty meaningless without seeing the numbers from a year ago". Turns out it's....kind of as you were, except apparently health care is a new and exciting problem.

What is up with this weather warning? "Yellow warning for heavy rain, but it refuses to cross the Thames so anyone north of that should be fine...."

Have we conclusively ruled out time-travelling AIs in naval design in the late-19th and early 20th centuries? This one has forgotten to stop adding turrets.

I should probably add for the coup de grace that the number of people saying they've actually been victim of a crime in the last year has actually fallen in this time:

This is being treated as a new thing and a result of current media trends, but it's probably neither. As part of its annual crime survey, the ONS has ben asking people if crime has gone up a) nationally, and b) in their area in the past few years. Here's the proportions of people answering it has:

Well, it looks like it failed to get into Cambridge, so it's not that smart:

It's not quite so rude, but the next village over to where I grew up, (Haxey, North Lincolnshire) always amused me with this piece of excessive literalism:

The thing is the British built these ships substantially faster, and then resisted the impulse to tinker with them, instead just building better ones. So by the time the French had _finished_ building the Marceau class, the RN had moved on to the Admiral class, which look like battleships

The thing is nobody in the 1880s had yet figured out how to design a battleship. While the French were doing this, the British were busy producing the Colossus-class, the location of the armament on which I am still unclear for the reasons for...

Can you see the magic word I put in the post below that caused the bot to follow me? Confused me for a while given that I wasn't using it in the relevant context...

"I'm sure nothing will go wrong if I try to hold on to the pawn in the Queens' Gambit Accepted without knowing the theory", an occasional series

Chess moves I'm proud enough of to brag about, an occasional series. This one looks bad for black, doesn't it? But....

16... Qc7!!
IRL my opponent failed to notice the main problem and the game ended
17 g5?? Qxc2#
But even if you do...
17 Rxd4 (or c3) Qxf4+
18 Kb1 Bxg5 and the Queen is trapped.

Though sometimes the judge just wants to vent. I don't think this paragraph is particularly useful, he just wants to get the last sentence in.

@spotify.com, do you really think this is a helpful search return?

Why did he win, then? Because the consensus politics of men like Blair and Starmer depresses Conservative turnout. Adding that to the previous graph:

See, what it _doesn't_ do is "appeal to more voters". In fact, Starmer won the 2024 general election with fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn got in either of his attempts:

Microsoft once again disapprove of me having multiple hobbies