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the effigy underscores the West Midlands’ rock heritage

Would Stoke be happy being associated with the West Midlands?

I always had them down as North Midlands and associating as closely with Manchester as they do Birmingham, which is only a "very slightly" for both

Fine haha just inconvenienced as I'm meant to have a follow-up appointment in 2 weeks but I'm away on holiday hahahha

update

mountain biking, hoping to book some more days off with a broken arm or collarbone or something like that

Better known for his other work

Yeah, racism in europe is largely stereotypes directed at whole groups that are rooted in truth but grossly overblown, eg "black people just want to commit crime", "arabs want to install sharia", "east asians want to eat your dog", "indians want to outgrow the native population" and other nonsense.

If you ask the huge majority of the people who are saying these things if they interact with people in these groups, they'll say "yes, but they're some of the good ones" not realising it's only a tiny fraction who aren't, but also accepting that race doesn't automatically make you anything.

Comparing that to the US where (from what I'm aware of) there's both "I refuse to even speak to members of xyz race because they're subhuman" and "xyz race needs all the help they can get because they have such a tough time" it seems so hard for individuals to just live a normal life in the US?

European racism is casual compared to even everyday American racism, even considering the likes of AfD

What?

Britain for most of the 20th century wasn't even trying to home grow food any more, it came in canned from across the world as it's a lot easier to ration and stockpile food which lasts forever, hence the reputation for awful food... It's only comparatively recently that we've been rediscovering historical British food

Us politics isn't about economics anyway, especially when you've got Republicans raising taxes sky high and restricting free trade. It's about social and cultural issues more than ever these days.

It's worth saying the number of minors is absolute, so they could've been in a single period (eg if they knew they made a mistake on the reverse park, so were nervous and drove slower for a bit and stalled a couple of times)

I had the same thing where I racked up around 10 minors during/after my emergency stop was partly botched but still safe. I was explicitly told I passed because they were all still safe, within a short interval and I recovered quickly from it.

That said, 1.5 years of learning is a long time to still be shaky after

Interesting to see they're using chatbot arena ELO rather than some unrepresentative benchmark designed to make them look good, that actually gives me higher hopes for this

We basically have professional ministers already - it's the senior members of the civil service, they're just less public facing as their job is to make things happen, not headlines.