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UK Unemployment rises and remember the employment tax rises are yet to come
This morning brought us up to date with the latest news on the UK labour market. With the recent rise in employment taxes in the Budget from Chancellor Rachel Reeves most eyes will have been attracted to this bit. The UK unemployment rate for people aged 16 years and over was estimated at 4.4% in September to November 2024. This is above estimates of a year ago, and up in the latest quarter. Much…
#business#Chancellor Rachel Reeves#economy#Employment#employment taxes#Finance#Hours worked#public sector pay rises#Real Wages#UK#UK Budget#unemployment rate#Wages
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#chancellor of the exchequer rachel reeves#united kingdom#asylum seekers#rwanda#offshore asylum processing#uk budget#tories
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the way the speaker of the house tells MPs to shut the fuck up simmer down is glorious
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AAA games targeting a release date of 2024-2025 mostly have budgets of 200 million dollars or more. Do you know how many fucking copies you have to sell of a game to even break even with that?? That's why AAA studios only make games with the broadest possible mass market appeal! They can't afford to do anything else!
#Apparently five years ago budgets for a triple a were more in the range of 50-150 million dollars but costs went up rapidly#And call of duty seems to have a budget of around 300 million per game which is wild#Anyway this info is from the UK CMA report about blocking Microsoft's acquisition of blizzard-activision#If you want to check it out yourself#This totally derailed me from what I was originally going to post about these numbers are just crazy#Anyway yeah. Why are games Like That? Well at those prices they have to be#Indies cost (relatively) less to make and can therefore take more risks#What an absurd amount of money
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why are canadian cartoons and US cartoon so distinct. I could usually tell when a cartoon was from canada as a kid but couldn't tell you why even now.
#it couldn't have been the scenery like the locations being based on canadian neighbourhoods it's not something I would've picked up on#I could also tell if they were from here in the UK because they were often low-budget gross and mean#except cramp twins which I always assumed was american growing up honestly (and the cast are)#but later learning it's british was Not a surprise
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The 2p cut to National Insurance contributions will give the richest 20% of households £424 a year.
The poorest 20% will only get £34, nowhere near enough to make up for crumbling schools and months long NHS waiting lists.
No one wants more tax cuts, we need the public services that allow us all to thrive.
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Honor Blackman guest stars as art expert Syd Lewis in Saber of London: Deep in the Heart of Chelsea (1.3, NBC, 1957)
#fave spotting#honor blackman#cathy gale#saber of london#the vise#the avengers#classic tv#deep in the heart of chelsea#1957#nbc#so im visiting parents for a week or two and taking the opportunity to catch up on my old tv watching as i have access to my beloved#dvd collection. Saber was one of the final network releases I've located (after‚ i might say‚ a long long search for a reasonably priced#copy). so. the story of Saber of London. (deep breath). SoL is really a development of The Vise; for more on the needlessly complex history#of that series you can follow the appropriate tag above. in short The Vise was a crime anthology made specifically for US tv but produced#in the UK using brit actors writers and directors. the recurring character of Mark Saber was popular enough that the show eventually became#The Vise: Mark Saber; it then became Saber of London. some sources still regard this show as essentially being a later series of The Vise#(and it does still use the og theme tune over the end credits) but considering the title change and (crucially) the fact that SoL saw the#series move from ABC to NBC‚ im gonna consider this its own self contained show and number the episodes accordingly (ie. this is series 1 o#Saber of London not series 5 or 7 (depending on your counting) of The Vise). anyway now that's all out of the way.#there's little material difference between this series and the slightly earlier The Vise: Mark Saber episodes besides new titles and a#different introductory spiel from star Donald Gray. our hero is still a plucky private detective undertaking modest cases that the show's#budget will allow. this ep concerns art forgeries and an attempt to trap the criminals responsible‚ which means Saber must call on an art#expert to help authenticate the works. enter Honor! not yet a star‚ Honor did have a decade of acting experience behind her#which is maybe reflected in the fact that she's given an unusually meaty part for a woman in this series: she's neither victim nor love#interest (which are the usual roles) but a witty and intelligent source of assistance to the hero.#unlike The Vise episodes (which could take up to a decade to appear in the uk if they did at all) SoL appears to have had a fairly regular#slot from Granada about two years after the show's US premier. this ep would have been seen by uk audiences in 1959
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Channel and asylum crisis could take half of aid budget after cuts for defence
Cutting foreign aid to hike spending on defence means the UK is on course to spend half its overseas development budget on dealing with the Channel crisis, Sir Keir Starmer has been warned.
#united kingdom#uk prime minister keir starmer#asylum seekers#migrants#uk defence budget#channel migrant crossings#english channel#overseas development budget#channel and asylum crisis
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The government are going to scrape people's bank statements every month in order to take their benefits away but god forbid the rich are expected to pay their taxes👍 [thumbs up emoji]
#how are we supposed to just roll over and accept this#they are fully aware of the protests theyre getting and theyre just carrying on#because of course they are#it said on the radio earlier that the government dont want the slashing of the inheritance tax to be the main focus of the budget meeting#I wonder why /s#politics#uk politics#uk#not disability related
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If we drill and dig up the coal and oil and gas that we know about (fossil fuel reserves) and burn them, we will heat the Earth far past the red lines drawn by scientists and governments. We know this, and Rosebanks keep happening around the world. So frustrating.
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genuinely feel like a baffled alien when i read posts about how 90s-00s media was all made for the love of the craft, with not a care about profitability, and how the budget for famously expensive tv shows was in fact thruppence ha'penny and the fancy CGI effects were somehow intended to look shit because wheeeeeee people just enjoyed things back then!
#i think the budget misconception MIGHT be explained by simple aging of effects and the fact that the to a modern viewer the gap between the#effects of something made last year vs made in 2005 is more notable than the exact degree of how bad an effect looks now.#otherwise it's just... erm... nostalgia (shut it!!!) and young people not knowing when older fans are talking utter shite.#(that said i might pay real actual money to see a young person tell russell t davies to his face “lol i love how you make it look shit!”)#(“not like these modern television things where they pay the actors and want the effects to look convincing! well done on the cheapness!”)#it's a bit like how filler episodes have somehow become great lost opportunies for genius and creativity instead of... well... filler.#you're just tired of excessive serialisation! which has been done mainly because earlier efforts were very well received by their audiences#it became a sign of prestige and now everyone does it and also because UK-length TV seasons for US shows now limits options somewhat.#which is indeed ironic when twenty years ago the problem was having to make *too many* episodes and drag everything out forever.#we had a break from the season arc because it needed to last six months and there's only so slowly you can tell a story.#anywho#television#if it was all for art then why do you think so many tv shows were abruptly cancelled after 1 season? (yes that happened then too!)#there's also a MASSIVE chunk of survivorship bias at work in a lot of this accidental retconning.
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not to blog about politics on main but fuel duty should've gone through the roof
#might have paid to prevent more expensive trains#not getting much environmental effort from this car obsessed gov#anyway#budget 2024#uk politics
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Ngl, while I do get where RTD is coming from that the Disney deal could save Doctor Who from dying if the BBC does essentially die since the tory government are basically killing anything they can, BBC included- I really don't like the idea that the solution is just to give Doctor Who to Disney, given we all know what Disney is like with everything they own and would not hesitate to milk Doctor Who like they do with Marvel, let alone just adding to Disney's monopoly on everything we watch.
#doctor who#im not saying i'll jump ship as soon as i see it becoming marvellised#but as soon as i see 100 spin offs coming out of it#i wont be there for them#and like the fact that the air times are already americanized#but rtd is fine handing over a show that has had its 60+ years of life in the UK to an american company like disney.....#and like yeah i get it higher budgets are fun and all#but also ngl upon rewatching older new who and the SJA#dw was just more fun and such when it had a shitty budget#imma just be honest there#invasion of the bane is a comfort special for me#shitty cgi and all#the same going to alot of old new who#tho i guess this might explain shit like doctor who now just being fully pro-military and shit#we know how disney allows the military to dictate marvel nowadays after all...
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