EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

You're a capitalist stooge, deal with it...

Yeah I am totally cool with that, dont have a choice, didnt study enough.

It's funny, I was super keen to get back into design over here... Big fish, small pond syndrome, $£€¥... However... There is NOTHING I would touch with a fucking barge pole here... Doing something else, poorer but super happy... Once we've found a house we like (and can afford) all will be good...

I'm at 9 Stone Buildings. Don't think I know anyone from Brick Court - they're more Commercial/Media whereas we're more of a Chancery set.

Yeah but weapons manufacturers being in robotics doesn't mean that all robotics is weapons.

I would hope somebody in the civil service would at least try to keep the greater good in mind.

A bit late to this, but I thought being a civil servant a bit like being a barrister? It's not your job to take a moral position, or indeed any position at all.

Your job is to action the instructions to the best of your ability.

*action*

Ha!

Sorry.

carry out... or implement.

Mostly as a civil servant you are required to act in a politically unbiased way. There are also workplace codes of conduct saying not to discriminate etc.
As a civil servant, if I were asked to do something unconscionable I would refuse. Fortunately I work in IT where actions bear no consequence

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/all-man-wants-for-christmas-is-brexit-20161221119317

Commercial and EU over at BCC. I've never really understood what Chancery is, other than a lane...

I have a good friend who works at brick court. Im pretty sure he's the smartest person I know.

Fortunately, they've already recruited someone for the role, the BBC reports tonight.

#fakenews

Well, Chancery is the application of the law of equity, as developed in contrast to the common law by the courts of Chancery AKA the Lord Chancellor's court. In practice that means, for me, an eclectic mix of land law, landlord and tenant disputes, leasehold enfranchisement, general commercial, company, trusts, wills and probate cases. And cases involving car engines. Or, in today's case, a late start and a very long and very, very boozy lunch...

Rights of light?

Yep, them too.

And cases involving car engines.

The Foxtons man's firey Miura?

What's his name? I may well know him.

And they call us the liberal elite. Huh!

http://www.brickcourt.co.uk/people/profile/fionn-pilbrow

He is a good guy, say from me (matt boyd)

Yeah. I know Fionn. Nice guy. My partner is Victoria Wakefield, if you want to say hello to him from me.

Sort of relevant. I found this article quite interesting:

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/10/when-and-why-nationalism-beats-globalism/

It's a bit long.

tl;dr - people predisposed to nationalism are more reasonable when not mugged off.

most relevant place I could think of to post this:
https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts/

although the opening paragraph is pretty annoying:
assuming all answers to the question "do you think the world is getting better or worse?" are thinking about for humans is a bit wild. graphs for biodiversity and species extinction, areas of habitat etc would look pretty dire.
and starting with "a recent survey" but not linking/attributing to it, and not dating the article - argh.

No firey Miura engines yet. A BRISCA F1 stock car V8, a 1950s Mercedes straight six, a Morris Bullnose engine and some boring crappy modern diesels. Oh, and a race-spec E36 M3. Much engine, many bang.

Apparently the UK has now also been surpassed by India in GDP (after France did the same a few months ago). So we've slipped two spots since the referendum.