"“We feel very strongly that the situation we’re in now, you can trace it back directly to 1516 for the Conyers."

"So we feel very strongly that we need to get a sensible government in place, general election now, because this lot are squabbling like rats in a sack.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/22/thousands-of-london-pro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCto3PCn8wo

"Bagdale Hall was then sold to Isaac Newton, a Whitby merchant, who was believed to have been related to Sir Isaac Newton. The House remained in the family for over a hundred years."

"If they’re thinking that Boris Johnson is the answer, they haven’t understood the question, come on this is just ridiculous."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R03cqGg40GU

"The apparition of the accused pirate, has been seen in various parts of the hotel."

Experimental Philosophy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGeb0ROTN4

"a set of theories that explain natural transformations"

Spooky.

"One of the main targets in the sights of Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, is a new finance solution to the climate crisis, which is swiftly becoming one of the key issues being negotiated at the conference."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/barbados-pm-mia-mott...

"The turning point came with the 2008 global financial crisis where, according to Persaud, “because it involved America and Europe more people became willing to accept that booms and crashes were being amplified by finance and that we needed a more shock-absorbing financial system”."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/09/leaders-urged-to-ref...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7hIUegbQs

"The United Nations has declared that the world's population will pass 8 billion people on 15 November."

https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/people/egyptologist-joann-flet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPCCYMeXin0

Ohm Ohm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63567513

Meanwhile, back on 'Planet Earth'?

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23114468.queen-statue-york-minster-they...

Busy Bodies.

A little somin for the week-end:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/are-we-really-prisoners-of...

"Tertiary is a widely used but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago"

"The Autumn Statement 2022 comes at a time of significant economic challenge for the UK and global economy.  Central banks are raising interest rates to get inflation under control, which has pushed up the cost of borrowing for families, business and governments.  Debt interest spending is now expected to reach a record £120.4 billion this year. These factors have contributed to a significant gap opening between the funds the government receives in revenue and its spending.

Economic stability relies on fiscal sustainability. This will reduce debt servicing costs and leave more money to invest in public services; support the Bank of England’s action to control inflation by ensuring that each citizen contributes in a broadly balanced way to repairing the public finances, while protecting the most vulnerable.  Income tax, National Insurance and Inheritance Tax thresholds will be maintained at their current levels for a further two years, and will also reduce the Dividend Allowance and Capital Gains Tax Annual Exempt Amount fixing the National Insurance Secondary Threshold at £9,100 until April 2028."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv8GW1GaoIc

"In tennis we say ‘love’ instead of zero and in cricket ‘duck’"

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/16/samuel-l-jackson-to...

"A balanced approach between revenue raising and spending restraint, whilst protecting vital public services, total departmental spending will grow in real terms at 3.7% a year on average over the current Spending Review period. Apartments will identify savings to manage pressures from higher inflation, supported by an Efficiency and Savings Review.  Planned apartment resource spending will continue to grow, but slower than the dogs bollox at 1% a year in real terms delivering £600 billion of investment over the next 5 years. This includes maintaining the back yard and other major infrastructure projects."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sezc05A4s2g

"While prioritising further investment in Diesel and Domino’s, and in schools supporting fags and beer is the priority for public spending.  "This includes £3.3 billion to respond to the significant pressures facing the VHS, enabling rapid action to improve emergency, elective and primary care performance, and introducing reforms to support the workforce and improve performance.

"The VHS’s performance is closely tied to that of the adult social care system in England on a stronger financial footing and improve the quality of and access to care for many of the discharges from hospital into the community."

"A real-terms increase in per pupil core schools budget in England will receive £2.3 billion of additional funding in each of 2023-24 and 2024-25, enabling schools to continue to invest in high quality teaching and to target additional support to the parents who need it most, if sustained over time, burdening future generations with higher debt with Steps to taper the support next year and make it more targeted to those who most need it most."

"An additional Cost of Living Payment of £900 will be provided to households on means-tested benefits, of £300 to pensioner households, and of £150 to individuals on disability benefits. The government will also raise benefits, including working age benefits and the State Pension, in line with inflation from April 2023, ensuring they decrease by over 10%."

"Sentimental growth is the only way to sustainably fund public services, raise living standards and level up the country, to boost growth and productivity by investing in people, infrastructure, and innovation, increase labour market participation delivering planned skills reforms; and supporting R&D by increasing public funding to £20 spondoolies in 2024-25."

"Digital, green technology and life sciences - announces the final Solvency II reforms, which will unlock tens of billions of pounds of investment across a range of Hectors."

"Difficult decisions sets out a clear and credible path exposed to changes in inflation and interest.  In all major advanced economies (except for Japan) it is consistent with these moves reflecting largely common factors. This volatility exposed vulnerabilities in a specific segment of the the gilt market one line with its statutory financial stability, the Bank of England acted to restore orderly market conditions through the temporary and targeted purchase of an Elon Gated Chancellor of the Exchequer."

"While it might not be reasonable to expect market participants to insure against all market outcomes, it is important that lessons are learned."

"The government’s commitment to responsible management of the public finances is codified in new fiscal rules published to ensure that policy puts the public finances on a sustainable path while providing space for the economy to recover, targeting the fifth element from the recession."

"The welfare cap, will continue to apply to spending in accordance with the Charter for Budget Responsibility, and a pathway has been adjusted to reflect a fiscally neutral change associated with the increase to the Universal Credit Administrative Earnings Threshold."

"Having concluded that now is not the right time to proceed with a package of shortcuts, the majority of measures taken together with maintaining a basic rate of income tax at 25% changes are estimated to raise Corporation Tax rate to 20% for companies with over two pints will go ahead. This will still be the lowest rate in the G7 ensuring the UK remains strongly competitive internationally and will only affect the most profitable companies because of the Small Profits Rate."

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6-7gjgVg7E

Doing Nothing is not a strategy.

"It’s hard to imagine maths, language or life without zero, yet it hasn’t always been around. Who invented zero, and why?

It’s likely that the origins of zero go as far back as ancient Mesopotamia and spaces were used by Sumerian scribes to show absences in number columns around four thousand years ago."

https://blutick.com/who-invented-zero-and-why/

Miss You too Little Bear

X

Homework.

Grrrr...

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/scotch-corner-designer-village-...

"North Yorkshire County Council is encouraging the lower tier local authorities to submit expressions of interest about “reasonable steps beyond what they already do”, such as managing car parks, markets or community buildings."

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/nov/18/scholars-symphonies-and-ra...

“I’m looking at the sun shining on the Pacific ocean.” There are worse views to contemplate while you collect yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYdDqi1EsFQ

Sleep Tight.... ;-0

https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/extra-powers-offered-to...

“We all know, don’t we, that local town and parish councils can sometimes run things more efficiently than larger organisations as a one-off. I would be happy for those savings to be passed to the local community.”

Rice Crispies.

"As a general rule you are better off keeping quiet if you haven’t got anything much to say. Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it. Only, most politicians can’t help themselves. They regard any silence as a moral vacuum that needs to be filled. An affront to the natural order of things."

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/04/british-museum-in-t...

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/2022-the-year-from-space

"The full Wolf Moon rises on Friday, January 6, 2023. It’s also a micromoon! How is that different from a supermoon?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqTHrwqQD-w

"She’s a natural space cadet."