Here we are:

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'...expectations for the mini-budget tomorrow are running sky-high.'
'...brilliant for growth.'
'...this could be the most taxpayer-friendly fiscal event in recent times.'

'The Taxpayers’ Alliance [...] predicted that the [Liz Truss mini-budget] would boost economic output by £99bn over the next ten years and said it was the “most taxpayer-friendly budget in recent memory.”'

Curiously, all evidence for their support has been scrubbed from their web site.

The oldest I felt recently was when I was in the technology museum in Berlin last month, and saw my first mobile phone (Nokia 5110 that I got in 1999) as an exhibit. It is a throwback to a bygone age, and I felt the same way...

Corridor Crew's video on this is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4TX...

The UK is a lost cause since Brexit. Similarly to the US, there is now a large, incompressible segment of illiterate morons who will actively seek the most outrageous clown to vote for - disregarding even their own selfish interest as long as they are flattered and entertained.

Valley Parade stadium fire; 40 years ago yesterday.

I just remember the mid-late 80s bringing a major disaster every few months: Challenger, Chernobyl, Lockerbie, Hillsborough, to name a few.

I Want To Break Free