Interesting Links for 09-05-2023

[andrewducker]

"Yakety Max" - Mad Max meets Benny Hill (will only make sense to a certain generation of British person)

(tags:music video )

A brief list of the massive differences between the Conservatives and Labour

(tags:politics UK labour conservatives OhForFucksSake )

New UK Cybersecurity Campaign Leads Kids Directly to Pirate Apps & Malware

(tags:UK security epicfail )

One hell of a motorcycle chase

(tags:police motorcycle video )

Country-level gender inequality is associated with structural differences in the brains of women and men

(tags:inequality gender brain )

Nvidia shows off some really impressive real-time graphics using AI modelling

(tags:ai graphics )

Modern-day Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and Northumbrian people found to have Pictish ancestry

(tags:genetics uk scotland wales NorthernIreland )

Deposit-free mortgage aimed at renters launched

(tags:mortgages rental uk )

Brain surgery performed on baby in womb for first time

(tags:brain surgery pregnancy )

The most common reason for people abandoning the Conservatives is that they're just not any good at running the country

(tags:politics uk Conservatives )

Comments

[foms]

Apparently, this Canadian is of "a certain generation of British person".

Deposit-free mortgages: Thank goodness for supports for people to be able to buy homes. In that context, though, I'm thinking about the history of the 2008 mortgage crisis.

[andrewducker]

Me too. There's a reason for wanting a deposit, so banks don't all go bust when the market drops.

But the 12-month rental payments might help with that.

If would also help if we built enough new homes that prices come down, of course.

[hairyears]

It'll work if the affordability checks are properly performed, instead of waved-through in order to sell as many mortgages as possible.


The deposit requirement can be sidestepped safely in two ways: an indemnity insurance (expensive, but this was always bundled into loans worth more than 75% of a mortgaged residential property)...

...And a well-run arrears programme, in which the statutory 12-month 'standstill' is available, and a default management programme which ends in the property being sold with the borrower in residence, into the ownership (or shared ownership) of a social landlord.

1. Benny Hill

[snippy]

Benny Hill re-runs played (maybe on PBS) for a while in the 1990s, and I remember that song.

[drswirly]

That bike chase was impressive, but good grief the video was irritating with slow-motion every few seconds. That made me feel more travel-sick that the riding itself!