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Duh. London used to be the biggest financial centre in the world before Brexit, now its only No1 in Europe. Before Brexit only one EU financial centre was even in the top 20 - Frankfurt at No18 because London was the undisputed EU hub. Now London has fallen to second globally as it has haemorrhaged business to EU cities. Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Luxembourg and Frankfurt are all now top 20 in only 7 years. Way to go Brexit. And it's a process which is only going to get worse. Big institutions generally do not try to force their top performing senior managers to relocate - but when they retire or leave the vacant post is moved to the new city.

Yeah. Imagine if something real had happened instead of scaremongering - like financial services vancancies being down 60% compared to Q1 2017 .

That was one of the best things about moving away from Southampton. No more shitty chalk soup water!

Talking of intellectual - it's 'plane'

My dream car as a kid was a Cortina 2000E, way cooler than the Ghia 😄

Waters has just lost the plot. He has said Ukraine is lead by Nazis is not really a country at all' and more of a 'patchy vague experiment'. He claimed Israel is engaged in genocide and that Putin is leading his country for the benefit of all Russians. His bandmate Dave Gilmour said publicly Waters he is a raging antisemite. With that in mind its probably not the best idea to turn up dressed as a Fascist carrying a sub machine gun at a pop concert in Germany.

I bet you don't, even if you try hard. The only time you can be sure of origin is for raw unprocessed meat bought in a little tray in supermarket - and even then you need to read labels closely. Once its been cooked eg chicken wings or ham they dont have to tell you. Ditto in ready meals or restaurants. Most individual butchers will tell you what you want to hear.

Here's last week to start you off

Nah. The Cook, the Salesman and the Bottle Washer sounds like a bad French film.

Concerened yes. Vicariously excited, no.

I asked ChatGPT to suggest something Damn!! Whitey beat me to the easy gag

There really is nothing that gets Batman, Turkish and Weston going more than a good thread about kinks, trans and gay sex. Seems to be the the only thing that really engages them, topic after topic. Why don't you guys just go to a sauna in Brighton together and thrash your repressions out?

Seems to me most Russians genuinely think its a small scale peacekeeping / enforcement operation a bit like soldiers in NI in the 1970s /80s. They think its their land and a Facist RoI government are killing loyalists. Trump, this war and the China situation, reven the Johnson Government has demonstrated just how pervasive and effective propaganda / disinformation can be and how tenuous our access to relatively objective information and news is.

Why do you care? Why do you and the other 3 or 4 saddos care so much what other people do? You're like Poundshop Putins, the ones with less successful careers.

Depends. Are there pictures?

It's more complex than that though isn't it. The 'right' number depends on strategic policy decsions and what people actually want, what kind of society they want to live in. Do we want to invest in training Brits into high skill jobs or to import the skilled staff necessary after somebody else has trained them. Do we want to import low skill immigrants to to serve us coffee in Costa cafes or does that just exacerbate the housing crisis and we can just use the automated Costa machines as found in service stations instead. Do we kick all the students out when they graduate or do we ask them to stay because they are young and bright and likely to contribute more to the economy than than a no GCSE refusnik from Moss Side.

Have you tried seeing a dog behaviour trainer?

Didnt he have some major heart surgery years ago? Amazing recovery

Rolf Harris. Oh no wait....

The Ballad Of Darren The Ballad Of Darren, out 21st July 2023. Grimes?

8 episodes and the ending was still an anti climax is what I heard.