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Exactly this. Housing land supply in the UK is bottlenecked by politics (NIMBYism) and economics (private developers seeking to maximise profits) not software.

Odd to see the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) presented in such a positive light.

As an engineering project Crossrail became famous for being repeatedly delayed (eventually opening four years late) and many billions over budget.

Since opening the Elizabeth Line has been beset by high numbers of service cancellations and poor punctuality (usually blamed on having to share track outside the central tunnel section with other operators).

Same as those advancing the anti-motorist policies mentioned in the article.

Buy property on the cheap because it’s on a busy road. Campaign to have the road fully/partially blocked to motor traffic, and/or speed limit reduced to something ridiculous (20mph) so motorists end up using other routes to make progress.

If challenged, claim it’s all about the safety of children walking to school. You’d have to be a monster to deny those windfall gains.

Each to their own but a £13k Vauxhall Corsa doesn’t seem like a bargain to me.

The average fully-qualified GP has something like 2,300 patients registered to them.

If you assume 2.5 people per household for those new homes, their needs would be met by the addition of a single GP to an existing surgery.

Then consider that the typical buyers of new builds will be younger and healthier than average.

And that of those ~2,500 new residents, some are likely to be doctors themselves who would otherwise be unable to live in the area.

And that GP surgeries are private for-profit businesses.

And you realise the issues are more complex than they might at first seem.

When you consider there are decades of under supply to make up for, this is still a paltry figure.

Presume they mean ajar, not fully opened

For small shop owners it’s a vicious cycle. They don’t want to take in Scottish notes because many customers won’t want them as change. Customers don’t want them as change because a lot of shop owners won’t take them.

As per the article, they’re not legal tender so no one is required to take them as payment.

People aren't always available, so you have to work around or wait.

I would have thought if everyone moved to four-day workweeks, they would all take the same day off, essentially extending the weekend.

Just a theory but in a downturn I could see a lot of companies increasing their ad spend as they lose existing customers and find they need to work harder to acquire new ones.

Obviously this doesn’t apply to advertising which is just gratuitous brand building.

This is beginning to feel like the Freenode takeover drama

What kind of social problems are people seeing GPs about, that they otherwise wouldn’t?

The example usually given is the other way round, that the woeful provision of care by the NHS leads to other public services (notably the police) becoming the backstop, e.g. for those with mental health issues.

That’s a feature. The value of AccurateRip comes from the accuracy of data submitted to it.

Tightly controlling how data can be submitted allows that accuracy to be maintained.

De minimis non curat lex

Does your ISP allow you to use their service to host a server? Most expressly prohibit it in their terms and conditions.

Have you considered that a consultant hired to fix a specific problem, and salaried employees seeking to justify their existence, may have slightly misaligned incentives?

Successful YouTubers get a good chunk of their income from brand deals.

Doesn’t matter if your video gets monetized if a company has loaned/gifted you a product and paid you to make a video featuring it.

Except the Supreme Court have said they will not consider an appeal.

So it is not illegal.

Corbyn self-identifies as a socialist.

So it’s illegal in your opinion but not in actual fact?

If it’s widely accepted that placing more women on corporate boards delivers better results for companies, then investors will push companies to do just that.

Those that fail to do so will see their share price lag behind their competitors.

But why do you need 10 fake Birkins?

Different colours?

Does that mean the UK doesn’t have income, outgoings and debts?

So what is your point? The UK cannot print its way out of its debts, so what’s the relevance?

Please enlighten me on how people and countries differ in the basic concepts of having income, outgoings, and debts

Yes of course, the UK could simply print enough money to repay all its debts and that wouldn’t have any harmful or damaging effects on its economy whatsoever…

The fact many (note: not all) of those crossing via this means are intercepted and processed through an administrative process does not make it controlled migration.

Austerity is not a difficult policy to understand.

If your personal debts had grown exponentially over the past year, and your income showed no signs of exceeding your outgoings, would you not make some effort to reduce your outgoings?

Perhaps we could do this with an NI increase that costs higher earners more, raising the NI threshold to benefit those on lower incomes, reducing fuel duty, and providing council tax rebates for those living in lower value properties?

If you completely ignore the context of a global financial crisis in 2008 and pandemic in 2020, I suppose you might think austerity has been unsuccessful.