...help combat "raising" prices and the "raising" cost of living?

When you get a raise, it's called a pay RISE.

Yes. In fact you can find Black Mirror tropes in almost every Sci-Fi show that has a dystopian element. Doctor Who has just about run the whole gamut of them.
There's an entire series, "Upload", inspired by the rare non-dystopic episode San Junipero (although I'm not recommending Upload).
I'm just wondering whether you realized Black Mirror began in 2011. Maybe there are episodes you've missed.

Other great shows in the same genre but not episodic, and also not from 2021, are Orphan Black and Sense8.

I love the show but I don't think recent seasons have reached the heights of the original 3-season run.
The story needs a new Miller, the Blake's Seven expy crew need to get back to being the Blake's Seven expy crew, and they need to stay the fuck off earth.

Are people really still using banks that charge for every fucking thing you do?
There's a new generation of modern banks that specialize in shifting money around. Which is kind of the whole point of money in the first place.
And they do it at very low cost. And the recipient gets every penny of what I pay.

"Whole Genome Sequencing Could Save NHS Millions of Pounds".
British health care works uniquely in units of 350 million pounds per week. It's so ingrained we put it on the side of double-decker buses.
So how many weeks' costs will it save?

That is exactly why draught beer is still sold in pints (even in British/Irish style pubs in the EU). Those who knew full well brewers would rip them off with the smaller half-litre pressured for its preservation.

BUT

Pints.UK are not used for any other purpose. They live in a world of their own. No conversion is necessary. A bridge isn't going to collapse because someone used pints. For other consumables, price per kg or per litre should remain an obligatory marking.

Alias "Never replace a problem with another problem before considering whether you can replace it with two others."

Worst article summary ever. Was it really that difficult to write whatever "VC" is supposed to mean out in full and actually define it?

"Everybody does."

If only.

Hopefully you failed the test.

Great Britain has not been towed into the middle of the Atlantic. It is still part of the (completely arbitrary) continent known as Europe.

I did actually live in Paris and use the rail network for over 15 years.
It's a big stretch to imagine private supertrains being allowed to travel on RER lines.

A bigass private train can't just choose whichever line it likes. Most of those lines are saturated by suburban traffic. Most end at a major station and can't go any further.

Each European country has its own CV laws. Spain for example has had no home confinement since spring 2020, and since then just two weeks of bar/restaurant total closure. France has only just got its restaurants back after months of total closure.

...requirement.

Oh I've edged my up way reluctantly to W10 because I've been pretty much forced to.
But I'm not doing anything with my computer that would have been beyond the capacities of Windows XP.
Nor Office 2003 for that matter.