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London Tube Strike

London Tube Strike Extended So Commuters Can Reconnect With Walking, Resentment, and Maps They’ve Never Trusted Transport for London has confirmed that the latest round of industrial action will continue into the foreseeable future, giving the capital’s commuters a further opportunity to rediscover their legs,…

Political

Yet Another Elegant Policy U-Turn

Britain Performs Yet Another Elegant Policy U-Turn, Claims It Was “Always Facing This Direction” LONDON — Westminster insisted this week that the government had not reversed its position on property taxes so much as completed a “pre-planned rotational clarification,” a maneuver officials described as both…

Culture Social

Pub Trivia And Lawn Care

UK Scientists Discover Most British Men Emotionally Communicate Entirely Through Pub Trivia And Lawn Care 🍺🌱 Five Stiff-Upper-Lip Observations On The British Male British men would rather rebuild a shed than discuss feelings. Entire friendships survive exclusively through comments about weather and lawn quality. Many…

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The UK Yield Curve: The Bond Market Graph That Tells You More About Britain’s Fiscal Future Than Any Budget Statement, Explained for People Who Have Been Reading About It in the News

The UK Yield Curve: The Bond Market Graph That Tells You More About Britain’s Fiscal Future Than Any Budget Statement, Explained for People Who Have Been Reading About It in the News | Complete Guide to the UK Government Bond Yield Curve — What It Measures, What Different Shapes Mean, What the Truss-Kwarteng Episode Showed About Its Power, and Why Economists Look at It Before Looking at Anything Else

Culture Technology

Human Scientists Defeat AI

Human Scientists Defeat AI in Complex Tasks, Immediately Ask AI to Write the Victory Speech The global scientific community gathered this week to celebrate what many are calling humanity’s greatest intellectual triumph since someone first explained how council tax works without weeping into their Weetabix.…

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Calling Someone “Daddy” in Bed

Nation Reassured That Calling Someone “Daddy” in Bed Is Perfectly Normal, Provided Everyone Agrees Words Haven’t Actually Meant Anything Since 2015 Sex Therapists, Lifestyle Bloggers, and Self-Proclaimed “Intimacy Coaches” Unite to Calm a Public That Wasn’t Particularly Fussed in the First Place Britain woke this…

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How to Enter a UK Postcode on Amazon: The Complete Guide to Why British Addresses Don’t Have Zip Codes, What You Put Instead, and Why Amazon’s American-Designed Form Has Been Confusing British Shoppers Since 1998

How to Enter a UK Postcode on Amazon: The Complete Guide to Why British Addresses Don’t Have Zip Codes, What You Put Instead, and Why Amazon’s American-Designed Form Has Been Confusing British Shoppers Since 1998 | Amazon’s Address Form Was Designed for US ZIP Codes; UK Postcodes Are Different; the Field That Says ‘ZIP/Postal Code’ Accepts UK Postcodes; You Simply Type the UK Postcode; This Has Not Always Been Obvious