Comment threads have been busy with a discussion of how the UK needs to wake up to the reality of a hard Brexit.
There has been much love and debate around Pixar’s 19 movies, after the Guardian’s film critic Peter Bradshaw ranked them. And readers have been discussing the how much difference Dry January – a month off alcohol – can make to our health.
To join in you can click on the links in the comments below to expand and add your thoughts. We’ll continue to highlight more comments worth reading as the day goes on.
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‘I use dry January to reset myself and reassert some discipline’
I generally have a Monday - Thursday no drinking rule which I keep to most of the time. If late December turns into everyday or near everyday drinking, as it tends to, I use dry January to re-set myself and re-assert some discipline. In fairness I have a problematic relationship with booze, I think it’s less important for people that don’t. It is utterly pointless if you drink daily though for the rest of the year.
olfish
‘The idea that one needs to drink to have fun should be challenged’
I think it is a damning statement that something like a dry January is needed in the first place. The idea that one needs to drink to have fun which is present in many people should be challenged instead.
Helice
‘I’m unlikely to go back to drinking in February’
Working great for me. I’ve felt so much less anxious that I’m unlikely to go back to drinking in February. I wasn’t much of a drinker to start with, but the anxiety I had started getting after any alcohol consumption just about finished it off for me.
Sincerity
Europe must wake up to the drastic consequences of a hard Brexit
‘The Brexit trade barrier is going to be immense’
I just applied to HMRC for my Economic Operator Registration and Identification number, so I can import goods from outside the EU. Along with that, I need to specify the exact commodity codes of the goods coming in. I have to do this work each and every time. When I give the order to the supplier in China, I have to give them my EORI number and details for the shipment to be traced and tracked by UK customs. When it arrives, they will check it. They will then issue a C79 certificate for VAT reclaim, and I will then be able to collect my goods.
To think this will have to happen for every single shipment coming into the UK from the EU countries after Brexit is utterly insane. The trade barrier is going to be of an immense scale.
womblenuts
‘The EU-27 must get ready to completely cut off the UK’
The EU-27 must prepare for the time when the British will eventually start to realise the consequences of Brexit: the British will not feel ashamed and they will not change their jingoistic attitude; they will rather blame the EU and bombard the EU with threats, including the threat of provoking financial crises or military escalation.
In my opinion the EU-27 must get ready to completely cut off the UK.
Oraculum Magnum
England will lose out enormously
The EU has, or almost completed, trade deals with most other major economies in the World, and these have taken many years to accomplish.
EU states, therefore, will have little trouble making up any deficit that Brexit brings. England, on the other hand, will lose out enormously.
ardvark2
Every Pixar film ever made - Ranked!
‘Wall-E really is endlessly re-watchable, smart and charming’
Wall-E is the best in my opinion. It’s not just about the clever storytelling in the first act, but the beauty and symmetry of every shot, the way Wall-E carves through the symmetrical order of the Axiom, the extraordinary neatness of the plotting and the way character drives action even among the robots.
Thorn Davis
‘I adore Brave for ... its exploration of ... how we invest our dreams in our children’
I will always love The Incredibles for its depiction of family and the clever way it linked each character’s super powers to a child’s eye view of the world: Dad is immensely strong, Mum has to be flexible to make things work, and who hasn’t seen a teenage girl deploy a force field... but the plot itself is more on the ‘good’ end of the spectrum. Whereas I genuinely adore Brave for the way it is an exploration of the relationship between mothers and daughters, and how we invest our dreams in our children... if there is an underrated Pixar film it’s that one.
jeronimo97
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