A British TV company now requires all staff to declare all their sexual and romantic relationships, all "close" relationships, and all friendships, and all roommate relationships. This intolerable system of repression is the natural endpoint of the ever-increasing repression of office romances. It was always heading for this.

There are valid reasons for rules against office romances, but given the harm that those rules do even when not carried to these absurd extremes, the reasons are not strong enough to justify them.

Human beings need sexual relationships; human beings need love; human beings need friendship. If your main social contact is through work, where are you supposed to look for these things? Degrading yourself by running nonfree software such a dating app or Grindr? Going to a club (if you can look sharp enough to be allowed in) and getting drunk?

We had better adapt our rules to those human needs.

More people in the UK are using cash payments. I urge people in Britain to organize now to encourage the use of cash, and publicize all the nasty treatment you can avoid that way.

The organization could also campaign for requirements for stores to accept cash, and to situate an ATM in every settlement that is likely to have a family with no car.

*Junior public servants allegedly made ‘hotties list’ that ranked female colleagues, Senate hears.*

It is wrong to demand that human beings act as if they were sexless. That men — or women — in an office are comparing their coworkers for attractiveness is normal, even inevitable, and it treating it as a monstrosity is the start of repression that will make life ugly.

Migrant workers in Israel are often trapped, much like migrant workers in the UAE. Now they can't afford to leave.

Biden is boasting about the new fossil gas export hub, that will substanially boost global heating.