Didn’t know about Syria’s flag change

This is so engrossing. I’ve made it to chapter 77 while “working”. What a story.

The new “BritCard” would be used to check on an individual’s right to live and work in Britain, with senior No 10 figures examining the proposal, The Times has reported.

The card, stored on a smartphone, would reportedly be linked to government records and could check entitlements to benefits and monitor welfare fraud.

I’m not against what it’s trying to achieve, but will it achieve that and isn’t there a less expensive or better way to do it?

I was warching somebody yesterday say that since Cadbury was bought by Kraft and Dairy Milks are no longer milky. I really didn’t notice it if that’s true, but then again, I eat a Dairy Milk on average once every few years.

I’ve seen ads like this for Temu (Teemu?) where they have a bunch of seemingly random products and I actually want to click it to find out what they are.

Not sure what your point is here? We all know what the Southport attack was.

Why do you think all knife deaths are due to mass murderers on a mission?

If you ban all potential weapons, deaths due to weapons would fall, yes.

If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.

It’s not expecting to stop all murders. It’s about reducing deaths.

No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed.

She’s asking for half of this. Probably she only stops short of asking to to destroy existing knives because she knows it’s impractical. But if you stop creating new pointed knives, they’ll slowly get phased out. You wouldn’t save lives day 1, but decades down the line when nobody owns a pointed knife any more, you will.

It’s a difficult one - inconvenience some chefs or have a chance to save lives