The awkwardness for that is intentional. It sets the tone for the rest of the show for Alex to be hapless and overly eager to please Greg. If Greg and Alex wanted to they could write genuinely funny intros, they're very experienced and funny comedians in their own right, since long before Taskmaster

Progressives often see these as harmful—rightly or wrongly—so the instinct is to raise the age. The earlier list, on the other hand, is seen as beneficial, so the instinct is to lower it.

I don't understand why you keep equating quality of any kind with volume of exports? Those exports could be catering to any market within the importing country, not just those that require high quality.

5 minutes looking at the underlying numbers for that historic majority tell a story that don't exactly suggest political strength on his part, and those numbers have gotten rapidly worse. We risk ushering in horrific right wing populism by focusing only on headline facts and ignoring the context

A big part of the issue with young people getting on the housing ladder today is that mortgage deposits have rocketed. So yes, if you exclude people who live with their parents and only consider payments after they've already secured a mortgage, then you will flatten that line quite a lot.

I think people have the same instinct about art. I love The Great Gatsby, but if you told me F Scott Fitzgerald was an LLM it would kill it. Not due to any principle or ethics I hold regarding AI, it's just not interesting to anyone if it's not formed from human experience.

I agree and I think people have an instinct for admiring human endeavour. No-one would watch 'perfect' competitive AI vs AI on Fifa, but millions watch e-sports. Similarly, you might be able to build a robot quicker than Usain Bolt, but it wouldn't be as interesting or popular as the Olympics.

I assume on a personal level the Mail and the Tories are inextricably bound together in terms of number of: 'sources', dinner party guests, job opportunities from one to the other, drinking buddies in Mayfair members' clubs and so on, which they might not have to the same degree with Reform?

Orban uses that as an argument because it resonates with the population as a fair and reasonable position. If it didn't, what would be the point in saying it? The problem is that he's using it as cover for malicious, anti-democratic purposes. That's not an essential part of it for anyone else.

"A single American-based billionaire wanted to give £100m to one party, because he felt it would benefit him and his mates, so we had to take action". Done. Do you really think the public are paying close enough attention to party funding rules to rally behind third party grievances instead?

Would that not follow that countries or places that maintain a strong sense of cultural identity are more welcoming to 'other' communities? Cities in the UK don't have as strong a sense of tradition and community as rural areas, are the latter generally more welcoming to other communities?