At least the UK eventually abandoned the absurd scheme to create a homegrown replacement for the European CE safety mark for goods and are now dialling back the phytosanitary checks which were not needed when they were a member.

That's Arthur Feynman (no relation), Professor of Oligarch Studies at the University of Pighole, Utah.

Your comparison would be valid if only there weren't essential differences between the two, like one being GMO and the other not.

Luckily malaria is making a comeback in the continental USA. A few more years of unmitigated climate change and big pharma won't have to go Africa.

The CDC needs to be on the alert for unusual outbreaks of civility in these states.

Marijuana is a low profit, bulky commodity. These are your cocaine (heroin, fentanyl) dollars at work.

"Dr Who has gone full Disney." Not yet and I dearly hope Disney don't have the rights to interfere creatively or start their own Who EU. Else earth will be flooded by:

"One of those regeneration-wave devices, strapped to the Doctor now, dropped on a planet and done. Forever and ever and ever and ever."

Oh that's what it was - I remember chasing my little sister round the room zombie style, arms outstretched, going "The seaweed, the seaweed!" in a spooky voice. Topical then with the North Sea oil rigs just starting. I never feared the mechanical foes, it was always the squidgy organic ones. The yetis were quite terrifying and there was one where something came out of the foam-filled London Tube tunnels.

One professional player tried to claim a tax allowance for his beer on the grounds it was a business expense (refused). See also Alas Smith and Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Putin realized he couldn't get rid of the corruption which had beaten and outlasted the Soviets, so he decided to meet it halfway, judoka style, allowing the looting and mafias to continue but under his rules, and on condition they did him favours when asked (plus 10% for the big guy). Having half your economy disappear into a black hole will never allow it to be stronk enough to compete with competent states.

Lost reels: 15 directors pick great films you wonâ(TM)t find on UK streaming.

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...

Including Eraserhead!

Modern electronics is much more integrated so there'll be ten or more times fewer components (things to go wrong) in a Bluray player than a VCR, even the mechanical parts are much less complicated. It also uses much less power, leading to fewer thermal failures.

I've noticed this on rebroadcasts of TV shows I watched 20+ years ago. Some have disclaimers about "attitudes of their time", others just cut bits without notice.

Not just the supermarkets. Here, most tomatoes (many from the Netherlands) are tasteless and barely ripe but they cost 2 quid a kilo. Riper, tastier versions are available but they're much more expensive, up to 10 per kilo and most people don't buy them. Growers, buyers and customers have together decided that cheap and not very good are what the market mostly wants.

"short sellers" was your clue.