Well. That's Certainly Some Wiggly-Woo To Navigate.

https://twitterwithbraincells.blogspot.com/2025/12/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt11-on-with-big.html

Received Royal Assent in October 2023. Yet, thanks to staggered Enactment, Section 12 didn't gain appropriate force until June 2025.

That's not even considering China's Social Credit system.

I know what "Old Slow Brain" desperately wants it to be.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oasis/comments/1cwpwnt/1990s_noel_gallagher_arrives_at_downing_street/

However I don't think any of that particular class appreciates just how into markets Xiaoping's China has gotten. These days any Nouveau Riche with a little bit of spare capital can become the owner of a business; making tacky, little, gilded placenta chains(!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Zhimin_(criminal)

If I'm being forced to revert to childhood then I remember all those Chinese hordes buying their first foreign holidays to Crystal Palace. All sold on the promise of seeing the ornate gardens depicting the victorious naval battles of The Opium Wars.

Not realising that the fungus claimed those long ago.

All that's long before I even contemplate how explain the concept otheyf; "True Cost Economics." In which the social cost of something like Water Pollution is added to the private gain of something like Rare Earth Mining.

Basically I think China's Social Credit System first emerged post-9/11. Then has risen every time there's an evil wind for the West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6yeLNNVa4A (Cocaine, Eric Clapton, Official Audio).

I knew a second wave was a'coming.

If only I didn't have to decide what was for dinner. Maybe some of it would have been on point(!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF70kuJpy0w (Grand Coulee Dam, Lonnie Donegan, Island, Official Audio).