hypochondriac

Here's another Tory MP desperate for headlines pointing out that the safeguards in place are not adequate:

Looks to me like there is potentially a minor uptick in poverty over a year or two directly caused by the global pandemic (though the figures I saw for extreme poverty said it was going down). The overall trend will be downward and at an accelerated rate following covid recovery and that will continue to be the case barring some catastrophic event like a giant war or global pandemic.

I am sure that was a difficult post to write and thank you for it. You absolutely did the right thing. One day you may be able to look back and appreciate the end that you had with her even if it's too painful to do so now. I have met you a number of years ago and you were very friendly and stories like this are harder when you can put a face to a name. I am sure your wife would be proud of you for carrying on.

Excellent post. I'm glad you could find some positivity during what must have been a difficult time.

Attention seeker gotta attention seek.

He reported on the contents of the Bill. I'd be interested to hear an opposing opinion that refuted what he says is and isn't in the bill and the obvious problems that presents if what he has said is accurate.

It's not a good enough control if it allows people to shop around to get the answer they want abd if it allows medical professionals-not just doctors- to bring it up unprompted. He's also right that a significant number of MPs are trying to get the process 'simplified', sped up and expanded under the guise of compassion. Legitimate concerns are not confined to Tory MPs with a slim majority as you well know.

As expected, the bill doesn't do anywhere near enough to provide necessary safeguards and is open to abuse: https://x.com/danny__kruger/status/1856131887212745194?t=hU6qDylUl92pCJhukhmyWQ&s=19

Good post but I wouldn't equate less people in extreme poverty with wealth. The measure I was using for extreme poverty hadn't changed since it was devised (I'd have to look up the exact amount) but it basically means they are able to survive without starving to death and have a somewhat sustainable future which is clearly an improvement on the alternative. Of course money doesn't buy happiness.

He's a new England international. With the premium paid for English talent we'd most likely pocket a fair bit more than we paid.

Not if they don't get promoted this year I wouldn't.

Fascinating how insular some people are and how unable they are to look outside of their own personal experiences when answering a question like this. Certain posters who claim to be of the left claim they have a lot more empathy for the experiences of others around the world yet questions like this suggest this to not be the case.

I don't disagree with a lot of that. I think it depends what metric you use for the statement. I'd say global health and poverty rates are a decent indicator but like you say, culturally in the UK and the West generally we are probably worse.

You'd have to be a fucking idiot to think that saying things are better than they have ever been on average means denying there are terrible things happening in the world all the time. Your point about the news just completely confirms my earlier point. Very low IQ individual. What period in history was better than now on average across the globe?

The reason I used the figures from 2022 were because that was the last time the last major study was done. The graph I already posted shows that there are literally millions less people including children in extreme poverty than there were in 2020. Even if I accept your flawed figures, then I'm happy to amend my statement to this is the greatest time to be alive save for a minor blip due to the global pandemic which caused a temporary halt to global poverty rates) though that is disputed.) Nevertheless the overall trend is still very much downwards at a rate of millions per year. What three year period in history are you suggesting that child poverty rates were lower than now?

No in that circumstance I'd care about myself but if you're asking if this is the best time to live in I'm going to look beyond just myself and my personal circumstances for my answer. Fwiw, If the question were is it the best time in history to live in Southampton then my answer would probably be no.

I'm not sure if my personal circumstances and whether I have more or less disposable income than 25 years ago can really be compared to literally hundreds of millions of children no longer being in extreme poverty. When I said things are better than at any other point in history, I wasn't talking about some individual in some random country, I was talking on average about the global population.

Yes it is. And I didn't mention Britain, only you did. Do you thin the likes of Africa were better in the 90s than they are now despite their many problems?

Euthanise everyone when they are teenagers and become all cynical.

Where is your figure from that child poverty is increasing? The joint analysis conducted by the World Bank Group and UNICEF suggest a reduction in the extreme child poverty rate from 20.7 per cent to 15.9 per cent between 2013 and 2022. This implies that 49.2 million fewer children live in extreme poverty compared to 2013, however, this is about 30 million less than projected in the absence of COVID-19-related disruptions. In the 20-year period between 2000 and early 2020, multidimensional child poverty (experiencing at least one severe deprivation) fell in developing countries from around 70% to 45% So according to the statistics people are living longer AND are healthier and wealthier on average on a global scale than at any point in human history. So it's not a nonsense at all.

100%. Humans aren't evolved to handle doom scrolling. It gives an unrealistically negative slant on everything and makes it hard for people to understand how great global progress has been.

There's massively less people in extreme poverty and people are being lifted out of it at a rate of tens of millions a year. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief Look at the graph for extreme poverty as a percentage of the global population. The rate that has shrunk in the last thirty years is astounding. That is undeniably miles better from a global perspective than any other time in history including the 1990s. People are living longer than ever before, technology advancements mean that we can communicate better than ever before, AI advancements mean there's a reasonable chance a lot of the problems of our time such as energy will be solved or improved. People choosing to eat crap food isn't an example of things being worse. It's entirely someone's choice whether they do that or not.

Times are the best they have ever been in human history. If anyone thinks things are uniquely terrible at this point then they're either addicted to social media or completely taken in by certain media articles.

Dodgy goal for me. Still a joke to have zero goal threat against a team like wolves

We were mostly shit first half last week. We've effectively wasted a half playing the tram we did. Dibling should have started with Armstrong on the left.