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Those costumes are only worn on the State opening of Parliament (which is kinda like Halloween for politicians) and even then only by certain people fulfilling certain ceremonial roles e.g. Black Rod.

Where wigs and gowns were a daily occurrence, until recently, was Crown Court where serious criminal trials were held. The rules changed a couple of years ago.

Now that's a Jod I could jet behind.

And even if there were a mechanism, the Kennedys are Democratic royalty.

Yeah... but it's only half-timbered.

Always. If inflation runs away, the poor suffer. If we get stuck in a deflationary cycle the poor suffer. Apparently it is impossible to construct an equitable system that works without gross inequality (spoiler: it isn't but some people love inequality and will do anything to prevent things being distributed more equally.)

It provides a reason for them not to just “take their ball and go home” once they have a pile of money.

If that's the reason for it it's not doing its job. Investments are much like savings to high net worth individuals and their investments are managed by someone else and they simply lay in the cut and collect dividends. Yes there is a risk to investments but if you're in a good wealth fund then over time you're almost guaranteed to win even if you have disastrous months here and there.

Yes, this is true but you also have to factor in the marginal propensity to consume, or in plain English, the poorer you are the more of your income you have to spend on necessities like rent or groceries.

There are always high interest investments available to people with a large amounts of spare cash floating about even when inflation is low.

If your rent + utilities + food = your income then you ain't hoarding money even in a deflationary spiral.

Look into the history of 2-Tone, you'll find that it was not appropriated but a movement deliberately calculated to bring black and white teenagers together.

Ska is simple, fun music that cares little for anything other than being fun, and is often gleefully immature.

Ska, as youngsters know it today, was reinvented by the 2-Tone movement in the UK (specifically Coventry) in the late 70s. The scene was overtly political and as @NuPNuA has stated was a deliberately multicultural movement, hence the name.

If you want to hear some original ska from Jamaica then have a look for songs by Prince Buster but beware you will find some historical attitudes.

This is because inflation isn't a bug it's a feature.

Anything that transfers wealth up the chain, from working class to middle class and from middle class to upper class, is a feature of the western economic system.

For example, in England and Wales the Bank of England is charged with keeping inflation at a target of around two per cent. This means that the pound in a workers pocket is supposed to devalue. The advantage is that the government borrows money in its own currency so inflation means that its debt goes down (in real terms) when inflation goes up.

I kind of believe that she might have come from aliens...

'Those migrants, at least they're getting a barge to sleep on, I have no idea how I'm going to keep up with my mortgage on my mock Tudor semi.'

You don't understand, they're having to go to Aldi. Oh the humanity!

To quote Livia Soprano, the streaming services are like a man with a Virginia ham under one arm crying the blues 'cause they ain't got no bread.

I was here to say...

Spotify pays pennies to all but the most popular artists

That's what the strike is about, getting paid a fair wage from streaming. The streamers can afford it, leastways they could when there were essentially two large streamers. The biggest driver behind this whole thing is Disney, which has always been a cuntish entity, and the fact that with their acquisitions from Murdoch, another cuntish entity, have decided they can push everyone around and digitally recreate their voices and likenesses in perpetuity and pay them fuck all for the privilege.

Film production is continuing in the UK as it is cleared through Equity the UK actors union. Could be that the top tier of US actors will still be able to work.

When is the sequel to Industrial Society and its Future coming out?

Yep, people here in England and Wales (Scotland has a similar system too AFAIK) are remanded in custody if they constitute a flight risk or a danger to the public at large. There are no bonds.

Just FYI, the CEO of Fable Studios is one Edward Saatchi. His father is Maurice Saatchi whose advertising agency was partially responsible for ten years of Conservative rule under Margaret Thatcher. The family absolutely has previous with union bashing.

Make Medium Readable Again

Thanks for that, I shall install it if I find a lot of interesting content is posted on here from there.