Fewer went to Uni, but that meant your degree was worth something in the job market. Now more go, but it doesn't lead to graduate-level jobs in many cases, and if it does, contracts are short-term and insecure ... so there's no social mobility payoff ... with the added disadvantage of a whole lot of encumbering debt.
Well surely if that is the case they should choose not to go and get some on the job training. I agree, we have too many graduates chasing jobs. That's where its all gone wrong. I still think lots just go because its the done thing these days and the education system steers them all in that direction. Its the very reason we have skill shortages, knowledge is not skill.
@KT53 I was taken aback by the cost of petrol/gasoline when I had a delightful visit there in 2018 and of course it didn't get any cheaper later. Ours used to be a lot lower. Now our cost for petrol is comparable to yours when you take into account our monetary exchange rate and our income buying power. We have a very aggressive carbon tax added and it has forced up the price of everything so far out of reach, what we can't grow in our back gardens is almost a luxury. We're just barely hanging by our fingertips. I haven't had a nice cut of meat or fish in years!
The price of petrol is more than half down to tax, and then we are supposed to feel grateful that they didn't put more tax on it in the budget .
Good grief, there are some clever people on this planet. I have read the article three times and I still don’t understand the answer… https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/11/...ex.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
Seems fairly clear; it was an art project set up by SETI using apparently random data beamed down from a spaceship orbiting Mars and then put on the internet for people to decode. It really studies how good people are at seeing patterns in what appears to be random data, especially when told something is hidden in it. Although the patterns have been found their meaning, if any, is still not known.
It's not the tax on fuel (fuel duty) that I really object to, it's the VAT that we pay on the fuel duty as well as the fuel itself.
Yes, the Yanks have got hold of another good old British word and mucked it up. The Grauniad seems particularly keen on saying “sunk” instead of “sank” these days. As in “Vocabulary sunk to its lowest depths in the article about swaths yesterday”.
What a lot of sick people there are on this planet. They should be introduced to the saying ”There but for the grace of God go I”. 'Refused service again with my guide dog, I'm done speaking out'
I do wonder how much of this is a London thing. Not saying it wouldn't happen elsewhere but if these are places in London I'm not surprised.
