Sorry to get you excited. If it’s any help, they do absolutely leave it open to return after the book time skip, they included a load of stuff that only makes sense in context of the last books.
I’d definitely give it a try! The concept is strong enough to be that I’d even consider a full reboot, although my dream is another soft reboot where the canon is left intact and we just follow a new set of main characters, and our old favourites might pop up occasionally. Having seen Amazon do great stuff with the tail end of The Expanse I think they have the chops to make it work.
Can’t believe the only strategy they have left is to buy pensioner votes at all cost.
The Conservatives pledge to raise the tax-free pension allowance by at least 2.5% a year if they win the election.
![General election: Tories announce 'Triple Lock Plus' pension allowance](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/5bbb44f0-fe69-4ef4-a510-09864c198e7b.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Manifestos aren’t due out for a week or two yet.
Institute for Government has you covered.
This is death spiral shit. I probably look on national service more favourably than the average person and I know you cannot just throw it out as a desperate Hail Mary without building a huge amount of consensus.
Every 18-year-old would choose between joining the military or volunteering one weekend a month in the community.
![Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/caecdbb0-975a-4e30-a788-1e0f0ea7cd7c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Where would one go to get a custom made backpack with double stitching?
I bought a Thule Crossover eight years ago and the zip on it has finally gone. Short of getting a local seamstress to fit a new zip, I think it's time for a new one, and am a bit tempted by the Thule Crossover 2 30l. Are Thule still good? Is there anything else of the same sort of size that I should be considering?
Bit late to the party, but something to be aware of if you're buying Solovair. I have a pair of astronaut boots, had them for about 20 months, worn them almost daily and I need to get them resoled now. I went to my local cobblers and they said they don't do Solovair, they just do glue jobs. I went to Solovair (I'm local to their factory) and they said that they're currently doing so much business that they're not able to offer resoling. They provided details of two webshops (keycobbler.co.uk and bootrepaircompany.co.uk) who do offer this service, but that involves sending them off for weeks and weeks. So I'm going to need to buy a second pair of boots to wear while my first pair are out for repair. And the resole is a significant chunk of the original boot cost: I spent under £170 on the boots, and they're going to cost £70 to resole plus shipping.
I'm still going to do it, I love them and I'd have spent a similar amount on trainers in the same period just through wear and tear, but it's not particularly a money saver or a convenience.
I guess that when I do have two pairs I'll be able to rotate them daily so this will be something that comes up every four years rather than every two.
I’d heard lava tubes pitched as one of the more straightforward ways of building a moon base, fascinating to learn that this would actually be a return to form for human dwellings.
Humans: we just like living in lava tubes.
Yup. Have put it down to the kids being at nursery and bringing back every cough and sniffle. It’s wrecked my wife’s sleeping because we’ve a baby who wants to feed when he’s feeling under the weather and he’s had a cold for what feels like weeks.
They were pretty direct remakes with a few new bugs and a controversial art style. I was never a big DPP fan and the remakes failed to change my mind.
I do think any future remakes will be different though, i vaguely remember a story about ILCA who made BDSP and I don’t think they exist in the same form as they did when developing the game.
There’s a lot of potential options. Gen V remakes are next on the main series remake list. Let’s Go and Legends were both sort-of-mainline-ish games that would be about right for a sequel. I’m betting there’s still more DLC for SV. And wasn’t there a rumour about another Detective Pikachu movie?
You can’t afford it now. This tech is going to be something people can do in their sheds within a decade.
I’ve set up a play-money prediction market if people want to join in.
IMO this is within Labour’s grasp, it’s in the range of their recent by-election wins and given it was Skidmore who took it from them, one has to speculate that a local MP of nearly 20 years, standing down in protest of the government, isn’t going to encourage the party faithful out to vote for his replacement.
The move will trigger a by-election in the former energy minister's Kingswood seat near Bristol.
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A by-election will be triggered in his Kingswood seat.
This prediction market has May at 50%, and that’s mainly because I keep buying it off he back of news like this. Seems like a lot of people are May doubters.
Reasons I think May is the most likely candidate are:
- expected polling bounce off a giveaway budget in March
- small boat numbers are at their natural minimum and only rise as Summer begin
- later in the year you start running into things like party conference, which you don’t want to miss, and fuel bills, which are going to be a bad news story again. Even if you rank “holding on to power above all else” as the most important thing, a late Q4 election looks a terrible mistake.
How dare you “two YouTubers” unname then when one is Ashens, king of tat, lord of the brown sofa.
It’s on his second channel for those interested.
20th to 23rd December, 3rd to 9th January
Wild that the government thought this needed to be a vote. Embarrassing that they then lost it, just for the chance to try and shunt some costs off their administration and into Labour’s. Now it’s just one more crack in the foundation of the party.
This is insane. Right now I’m reading The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman (formerly of DeepMind) and I’d been a bit concerned that he was all hype, but giving humanity a 45-fold increase in materials we know about? That’s enormous. The future is going to be a crazy place.
Fixed, thanks! Voyager auto title letting me down smh
Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence
![Powerful Lords committee damns Bank of England over inflation forecasts](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/afc70bd4-0a18-447c-8df9-836ec206a37f.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Analysis found an eightfold increase in the number of knighthoods or damehoods awarded to sitting MPs since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 - with two thirds handed to serving Tories
![Surge in knighthoods doled out to sitting Tory MPs sparks fresh 'cronyism' row](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/395bb83f-dd0f-4f5a-812a-74a0dd8107e9.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The SNP will lose seats to Labour and the Conservatives at the next general election, according to a poll that will be a new blow for the nationalists.Labour will secure 22 of the 57 redrawn
![Labour and Tories to win 33 Westminster seats, says poll](https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/9cae1b8b-b65b-429d-b11d-23fda1161b80.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Hoplite maybe? It’s on mobile but is a lot of fun.
Jeremy Hunt should increase taxes on rich to help fund public services for all, says Patriotic Millionaires UK
![UK millionaires group projects ‘tax our wealth’ on to Treasury and Bank of England](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/4f236783-e549-41ef-b1aa-ceac49d0410d.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
What's driving the day in Westminster. Politics and policymaking in the UK capital.
![The reshuffle could be on today — or not](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/614384b6-abe7-4a5f-b4db-650200145ceb.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Central government’s attempt to restrict councils’ ability to try out the practice is ‘a massive overreach’, say council leaders
![Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/5ddb4189-c4e0-447e-8eb4-ea7ea857490f.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The Reigate MP confirms that he was arrested but says he is confident there will be no charge.
![MP Crispin Blunt arrested on suspicion of rape](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/72e9a962-f6d0-4b77-a1ab-90b65c190ebc.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Decision based on harassment finding raises possibility of byelection in Wellingborough seat
![Conservative MP Peter Bone suspended for six weeks](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/f6aff978-ee9d-44a1-870b-52ea3df713d9.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I’m looking for a lightweight waterproof jacket with a hood, ideally available in the UK. I don’t buy jackets very often so I don’t know what I should be looking for asides from that broad category. Suggestions welcome!
Alistair Strathern overturns huge Tory majority to win seat vacated by former culture secretary
![Labour takes Nadine Dorries’ former seat in Mid Bedfordshire byelection](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/e60149ab-b8cf-458d-bb22-3079963e9f54.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Keir Starmer’s party wins seat for first time since bellwether byelection in 1996
![Labour overturns huge Tory majority to win Tamworth byelection](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/565addc6-bdb3-4c67-904c-307dc38bb76c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Commons will vote on suspension recommended by independent expert panel after investigation
![Tory MP Peter Bone should be suspended for six weeks for bullying and sexual misconduct, says report – UK politics live](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/b1215e8f-3ca5-4a3f-8206-cd0e027d821f.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
My daughter is approaching 3 and my wife has suggested a tablet either as a birthday or Christmas present, and I’m a bit hesitant. It’d be great for long trips, but I think as a day-to-day thing it might be a distraction. It’d get Spidey and Friends off the telly though. How and when did you handle this?
I buy a few kilos of dog biscuits at a time and at the moment we keep them in the bag in the garage, and decant enough for a week into a plastic kitchen tub. I’m worried about rats attacking what’s in the garage, so I suspect I want some kind of hard plastic tub, but I’m concerned about it being too big and awkward to easily get out the week’s food. Has anyone else got this solved?