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a short term effect - the cure

surfin’ u.s.a - jamc

half a person / smiths

Beat the Time - Edie Brickell and the new bohemians

leave in silence - depeche mode

New Year’s Day - U2

Ah the glorious Beeb. Just as technology and broadcasting were at the point of convergence with end to end digital production a hairs breadth away they go and outsource their entire technology division and keep a load of analogue broadcast engineers in house. Genius.

Well we all have the chance to turn it around shortly. I don’t think the NHS should or will be privatised and any political party that tries in the UK will be consigned to the back benches indefinitely.

I have friends working in IT for the NHS who report of layers of middle management and bad planning.

Not sure if it caused it. We can look at the stats for turnout and voting patterns. Seems to me a lot of people didn’t bother to vote so can’t really complain

It’s worth remembering that the people who have the most power at the polls tend to be the older demographic. They also tend to use the NHS more than most. No government with a stated mandate to privatise the NHS would ever get elected.

fire in cairo - the cure

prayers for rain - the cure

approaching the pavonis mons by balloon - flaming lips

let love in - nick cave

return of the los palmas 7 - madness

brothers on the slide - cyamande

beat surrender - jam

lay lady lay - dylan

Have you tried https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/parts-c4/bridge-parts-c685 They used to stock/order MusicMan bridges/parts?

Pay is really a small part of most of the industrial action occurring. Terms and conditions are steadily being eroded and an awful lot of people face a lot of uncertainty in their work, with their accommodation, with retirement. The Proletariat have become the Precariat. A certain person who constantly accuses me of supporting the establishment doesn’t realise in essence I agree with his views. It’s how to navigate out of the situation and change course which is the issue. If not handled with extreme caution the economy could quickly collapse. We all had a brief taster of this just a few weeks ago.

The FED plays the music everyone else just dances or trashes their currency.

At a macro level I would totally agree, particularly the part about it being built on sand. That’s the part that particularly worries me, particularly the bond market. I can see the UK and the Eurozone struggling to fulfill their debt repayments as private investors rush to short term US treasuries and UK and European bonds increase their yields to attract investors. For the average worker this is likely to mean their private pension may be at risk depending on how much leverage is involved. Bond yields have been weak for decades and there is all manner of leverage going on to balance the books. On a national level it may involve increasing the retirement age. Central banks may have to increase interest rates at a faster pace to get inflation down quicker and mortgage rates will rise. This impacts investment in equities (stock markets continues to fall) as well as debt repayments. In short the average person will have their two biggest lifelong investments exposed to extreme volatility. Mortgages and pensions.