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[mattster]

Yes indeed - hat tip to Sir Clive. A huge influence in my life, ever since my Dad brought back a ZX81 when I must have been about 8. I had an awful lot of fun on that, and later the Spectrum. Never did get a QL - Atari ST for me then, what a leap that was....

[mattster]

Presumably there's some sort of sign up process to this new thing as well, and you can get a credit card fairly quickly if you want one.. Not a lot of moral outrage here, at least beyond what was already possible through more traditional credit. My flatmate at uni went bankrupt over about £20k of CC...

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All of ours got early blight (which is less lethal than the full blown variety), but I have managed to save them - still producing, but not as well as they would be. It has been a horrendous year for them though, it was the wet July that did it I think. My dad lost all his to blight over a couple of...

[mattster]

At first glance this doesn't look much different to a credit card?

[mattster]

Don't forget council tax, which has more than doubled since 2000 whilst the goverment has more than halved the central funding money they provide to councils. We pay nearly £2.5k for band D whilst the council cries poor and services continue to be cut....

[mattster]

I'm broadly not against tax increases to pay for better services, but this government - which has raised taxes by significantly more than any other in my working lifetime - seems to have managed the quite incredible feat of doing so whilst simultaneously cutting services to the bone. Have we ever got...