Recent content by Kaushad

If you fall on hard times, why don't you use your savings? And if you didn't earn enough to accumulate savings, why didn't you get a better job?

I should think that this ship has sailed. Surely there are too many non-white people diagnosed as autistic for this to catch on.

I think they will have one more term. The Conservative Party still seems very unpopular, with voters and donors.

Don't they neutralise each other and leave a load of salt in the drain?

Gas generated electricity is one of the most expensive types going whether it's imported or not. We pay suppliers for gas high rates whether 60% or 1% of our electricity is generated by burning gas at any given time. This should be a reason to come up with something better than a "marginal cost...

It was disturbing how Truss' scheme was denied by something outside the elected government. It's more disturbing how that seems to be happening to Reeves' budget, in spite this government at least affecting a moderate economic agenda. According to that writer, Reeves could over rule the Bank of...

Considering that Arthur is the name of the most famous character from some of Britain's oldest preserved stories, I'm surprised that it isn't more common when I think about it.

Pinkwashed racism. Maybe "neighborhoods in Berlin with a majority of residents from Arab backgrounds" would be safer if Germany wasn't so fanatically supportive of mass killing Arabs and legally conflating Israel with the Jewish people (also thereby exaggerating the scale of antisemitic speech...

This is one article from a pundit whom I'd call a leftist. The short answer from it is neoliberal, competitive, hierarchical individualism trumping (not her pun) class solidarity, partly because the Democrats haven't been investing in aspects of the economy that would make the working class more...

Are stiff crusted pizzas the norm anywhere but in supermarkets? The pizzerias that I know usually serve the sort of pizza that one can slice and roll. Given what Turkish cafés call pizza, I assume that's closer to an original type of Mediterranean, flatbread sandwich and probably more or less...

Small (Petrol station that's sort of open 24 hours): <5 minutes Medium, everyday supermarket: ~10 minutes If the district council banned supermarkets, I would be able to go to a reasonably priced one on a ~20 minute diversion on my commute from my office in London. Cheaper supermarkets are...

I wish we had more of those. It sounds much easier to meet people and commute in such dense neighbourhoods. Provided they're sound proofed. And I'm happy with my country's 35 sqm minimum. Still, it has to be better than life in random house shares.

Exactly. Have you heard the Prime Minister mudslinging Labour during PMQs because one of them didn't support genocide in Sudan with enough vehemence? Have any MPs been suspended for criticising the gangs in Haiti? When the Russia army invaded Ukraine, how much did the papers make it about how...

It's one thing to question whether student protests effectively influence government and socierty, but you make it sound as if you're struggling to understand altruism itself.

I was watching a Twitch/YouTube dramatised roleplay show and one of the plot points was that the characters acquired a small archive of old records. Some of them were on floppy disk, which they treated as a problem that would require some sort of antique technology specialist. The cheek of it...