Have quite a lot to say about this EU Pay Transparency law. On the surface, you can see the problem it’s trying to solve; instances where people don’t get paid as much for roles as peers, usually because they are anchored to their previous pay… However…

Uh the new “EU Pay Transparency” rules are anything but

The World Cup schedule is just dire, isn’t it. Pity those with young kids who always wake up at 6am

Vitol with a rare public statement that “in Europe, and I think in the US, everyone is kind of asleep at the wheel and just carrying on life as normal” Given who they’re happy to trade with, quite the inditement….

It’s also just the opposite of anyone’s actual real life experience?! A mate who’s black would *always* gets stopped when we were on a night out if the police walked by. To the point the rest of us would do a “ooooooooWAAAY 🙌” chant when the rozzers made a bee line for us and then stopped him.

It is not the main point, but if Labour can’t absolutely wreck Reform over their reaction to this, they don’t deserve to be in government anyway. Ffs.

Train moan OMG. I refrained from complaining about my delay on Monday where my 90 min journey took 4 and a half hours. Only this morning I am stranded in the middle of nowhere with no trains going either way. Likeliest solution is to go back home & abandon. Ffs

Boss has arranged a big dinner for the great & the good of the firm and I have made the cut. I was quite happy until I realised him and his EA are so fucking posh they didn’t realise the table they booked was free because it’s during an England match

Gove was always a cunt and too many people fell for his shit. Someone who writes his own foreword in the bible to send to schools is not to be trusted - as you can now see.

For all the “public markets are dead” chat, all we needed was the main economic growth driver to move from asset light companies (software) to asset heavy (AI) and lending rates that aren’t practically free. Then they all go, cap in hand, to the markets.

Lotta double dipping required to fill out a 48 team office World Cup sweepstake.

Quite. He really is his own man. It’s just a shame he does it with so little flair, and instead it’s monstrosities like bibtights over tops.

Kept giving me U’s for my mock A-level history essays and no other feedback. I got so worried I would see my favourite teacher at lunch and he would set me additional essays and go through them with me. I got full marks in the exam. I let her know my mark and she exclaimed “my methods work!”

The margarita 🍸 with the toddler time dinner was a bad idea

We’ve had too many PMs come and go, so the solution is….a less stable electoral system? PR doesn’t solve what you think it does. I’m fine with it but let’s be honest about what It is….

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Not sure it’s my “favourite” (impossible) but I do really like this one and you can’t really get a full version of it unless you buy it on band camp on.soundcloud.com/Zun8daqjRekt...

What is this absolute travesty! Sparking water is the king of waters. “Oh I like my drinks with food literally tasteless” pah

Do all the people proposing this not drink sparkling water??!

I may be being really stupid but where the hell else can you build new homes? We’re gonna end up with towns of Manhattan style density and then tiny little villages populated exclusively by the elderly and the turbo rich at this rate.

Sorry, Jonas shaved his teenager goatee off but not his legs?!

Missed that the new Boards of Canada album is out!

Has he only just discovered Britain imports food? Wait till he hears about the..*checks notes* Corn Laws

Learn to love your other half as much as Yorkshire loves putting slogans on things

Who the fuck did this source think voted for Labour?

I have been in the Yorkshire Dales (no flying for me 😉) since Saturday and, honestly, in this heat ,we may as well have been on a summer holiday in Italy. 28 degrees, steep hills, sleepy villages, narrow roads with locals who drive with heroic assumptions, stunning vistas.

Delighted the enhanced games was a total miss

The main problem with this argument, and its counter arguments is they assume some level of growth. For the entire last two centuries, even the worst decades had some kind of growth. We haven’t since ‘10. No growth means you *have* to cut something, left or not.

So is the war over? Straits open?!

In my summer clothes my daughter says I look like a delivery driver. I cycle to town to return a load of ill fitting suits I bought online because the shops don’t stock my size, only for the entire rear wheel to buckle. How’s your Saturday morning going?

Has been a part of British road cycling, forever. Always worse in warm weather. Unfortunately, if you want to do road cycling in the UK you have to accept people will try to bully you. Sad state of affairs.

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Wehay. It’s that time of year again that football is on normal TV so I can have unfounded opinions based only on the football I see on normal TV

Stellar win. Outstanding

Go on!

Is being a mayor the easiest political job? Is there ever a mayor people don’t like at this point?

Was out travelling last two days so missed the Giro, but it really looks like UAE are racing on easy mode. Basically a team to *dominate* GC, so when they go stage hunting with the smaller teams who are already fighting for scraps, they really beat up on them

Burrito on the train. I have become what I hate. (Trips to Geneva do this to a man)

Remember when everyone said the nerdy a̶n̶t̶i̶-̶s̶o̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ introverted tech people were actually the cool ones? How did that fucking go? Back in your lane, boys.

This is so moronic on so many levels I just can’t

It’s an absolute and utter disgrace, quite frankly. Do we just not have any moral fortitude anymore?

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

I defy anyone on a bike to try and even get up to 55kph on anything isn’t steeply downhill. It’s ridiculous

Just spoke to someone who wouldn’t relocate to London because he’s Jewish and thinks the anti semitism has got out of hand. Honestly, it’s the first time I’ve been ashamed to be a Brit.

My only contribution to US/UK food discourse is that Americans seem to find a close correlation between food they like and how easy it is to eat without teeth.

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How about being able to watch cycling in the UK without having to pay to watch football?

A week after Reform were the biggest party in most recent nationwide elections people are saying the EU going to entertain versions of Rejoin. This is the other side of the Brexiters “they will come to their senses and agree what we want” argument during the negotiations.