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Great thread, thanks.
January 15, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Great thread, thanks.
No, it’s fantastic - for my money Dickens’ best.
December 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
No, it’s fantastic - for my money Dickens’ best.
Well, it’s entirely hypothetical, I guess, but the reality is that it would require a very similar response to overdiagnosis: gov would need to redesign the current welfare system as it wouldn’t be able to cope with the volume/expense.
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Well, it’s entirely hypothetical, I guess, but the reality is that it would require a very similar response to overdiagnosis: gov would need to redesign the current welfare system as it wouldn’t be able to cope with the volume/expense.
I know you’re not, but I think this thread shows that plenty of others really don’t want to engage with any sort of analysis that challenges *their* priors - Covid, underdiagnosis, etc.
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I know you’re not, but I think this thread shows that plenty of others really don’t want to engage with any sort of analysis that challenges *their* priors - Covid, underdiagnosis, etc.
I disagree with your initial point, if it’s any help. I think it’s better to focus on an analysis of the root causes and the validity of the data, before lots of expensive policy-making to mitigate the negative effects. Let’s clean the lens of the telescope before looking through either end.
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I disagree with your initial point, if it’s any help. I think it’s better to focus on an analysis of the root causes and the validity of the data, before lots of expensive policy-making to mitigate the negative effects. Let’s clean the lens of the telescope before looking through either end.
Well I’m coming from a bg of seeing very large increases in prevalence amongst young people in universities, so there’s that, but I think my point - simmering down a bit - is that the correct and most caring response to the evidence that we do have (even if limited) is to do the analysis.
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Well I’m coming from a bg of seeing very large increases in prevalence amongst young people in universities, so there’s that, but I think my point - simmering down a bit - is that the correct and most caring response to the evidence that we do have (even if limited) is to do the analysis.
‘Significant improvements’ - like, just your opinion, man. ‘Might’ - well yes, let’s try to get a bit further than a big old guess.
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
‘Significant improvements’ - like, just your opinion, man. ‘Might’ - well yes, let’s try to get a bit further than a big old guess.
So what the hell are we arguing about? The branding of it? Classic social media interaction I guess.
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
So what the hell are we arguing about? The branding of it? Classic social media interaction I guess.
You’d just prefer the government didn’t, for some reason.
December 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You’d just prefer the government didn’t, for some reason.
It’s always, “why bother even looking into it”, and never “let’s try to understand what’s going on instead of guessing”, isn’t it?
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It’s always, “why bother even looking into it”, and never “let’s try to understand what’s going on instead of guessing”, isn’t it?
Plenty here. 41% increase in last 10 yrs, overall. A more than doubling in the 16-24 age group. Large increases in mental health disability prevalence for children and young people.
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UK disability statistics: Prevalence and life experiences
An estimated 16.8 million people in the UK had a disability in 2023/24, accounting for 25% of the total population.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Plenty here. 41% increase in last 10 yrs, overall. A more than doubling in the 16-24 age group. Large increases in mental health disability prevalence for children and young people.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Huh? Just look at the numbers. The correct response isn’t cynicism but it’s certainly a degree of scepticism, leavened with concern and empathy ofc, but I mean, look at the numbers…
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Huh? Just look at the numbers. The correct response isn’t cynicism but it’s certainly a degree of scepticism, leavened with concern and empathy ofc, but I mean, look at the numbers…
I have to say the poem doesn’t feel nihilistic to me; there’s something pitiful about it, plaintive, and actually that generates a degree of sympathy in me, which isn’t how I’d respond to a coarser, angrier nihilism.
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I have to say the poem doesn’t feel nihilistic to me; there’s something pitiful about it, plaintive, and actually that generates a degree of sympathy in me, which isn’t how I’d respond to a coarser, angrier nihilism.
It’s ages since I watched it but I remember feeling that to me the reveal was exactly the kind of cheap trick that the narrative is working hard to turn into actual magic. I know there’s a whole lot of meta involved, but it didn’t work for me.
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It’s ages since I watched it but I remember feeling that to me the reveal was exactly the kind of cheap trick that the narrative is working hard to turn into actual magic. I know there’s a whole lot of meta involved, but it didn’t work for me.
I love Interstellar but found the deus ex machina reveal in The Prestige infuriating, to be honest.
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I love Interstellar but found the deus ex machina reveal in The Prestige infuriating, to be honest.
Does this include housing benefit?
September 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Does this include housing benefit?
Places are not fungible units. Your repeated comparison of the Lakes with the French Alps is not the winning argument you think it is. If you want to win any sort of political argument around planning, start somewhere else other than this.
August 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Places are not fungible units. Your repeated comparison of the Lakes with the French Alps is not the winning argument you think it is. If you want to win any sort of political argument around planning, start somewhere else other than this.
It is not easy. It is plainly not easy. I will in fact wager that it will never ever happen because it is so difficult. If, however, Buttermere (!) becomes a seething tourist hotspot serving 20,000 Frenchmen who want washing machines with their Wainwrights, I will return here to admit my mistake.
August 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It is not easy. It is plainly not easy. I will in fact wager that it will never ever happen because it is so difficult. If, however, Buttermere (!) becomes a seething tourist hotspot serving 20,000 Frenchmen who want washing machines with their Wainwrights, I will return here to admit my mistake.
I don’t want this kind of growth and what’s more, nobody else does either! So, given the fact that your plan for growth would also destroy the very resource it depends on, I think we can just move on and hope the French are happy with all the accommodation available to them in Blackpool.
August 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don’t want this kind of growth and what’s more, nobody else does either! So, given the fact that your plan for growth would also destroy the very resource it depends on, I think we can just move on and hope the French are happy with all the accommodation available to them in Blackpool.
Can I just reiterate that you have made up this problem. Lots of people come to the Lake District, it isn’t unaffordable, why am I screaming silently into the void
August 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Can I just reiterate that you have made up this problem. Lots of people come to the Lake District, it isn’t unaffordable, why am I screaming silently into the void