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doggy,

Law schools are profit centres for universities
Universities and colleges are incentivised to run courses which bring in the money.
People with no real background in Mathematics or Science will opt for and be encouraged to
study subjects where in all reality there are few jobs available.
Law, Media, and Design.
Young students are gullible/impressionable and hoodwinked into believing they will make lots of money by
colleges happily milking them in turn.
The reality is often very different, as we have found in trying to get rich quick out of buying shares.

You can have too much of a good thing.
Shakespeare (1599)
(As You Like it, Act II, Scene VII)

The sixteenth century seems to have been the last great age of popular rebellion in England.
So that line (Let's kill all the lawyers) performed to a playhouse, largely composed of drunken lawyers, came at a time when it was lawyers who were actually killing all the rebels.
Rebellious peasants were legally-minded and hoped their actions would set off litigation
The lawyers in the intended audience would have been highly amused at the comment.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Shakespeare (1599)
Julius Caesar
Act IV, scene 3.

baldy,
If substitution doesn't work you probably shouldn't be using 'due to'.

Doggy must enjoying the recent rise of Perion.
Perion's deal with Microsoft and associated search-based advertising, coupled with CTV, seem to be the reasons for improved guidance figures by management.

The Chattanooga Choo-Choo was due to arrive at 3 o'clock but arrived late owing to poor weather.

One way of helping decide which one to use is to substitute ‘owing to’ with ‘because of’ and to replace
‘due to’ with ‘caused by’.
Examples:
The train was late owing to (because of) rain. Quite nice.
The train was late due to (caused by) rain. Not so nice.
The late arrival was due to (caused by) rain. Quite nice.
The late arrival was owing to (because of) rain. Not quite so nice.

The recent fall in the sp of Tremor is probably due to an order being filled.

'Due to' and' owing to' are constructions commonly used incorrectly in the U.K.
They are not always interchangeable.

doggy,

Due to is adjectival and owing to is adverbial.
Surely you meant to say 'owing to a lack of English teachers'?
For the lack of teachers to be “due to” anything, it would have to be something that influenced the existence of the teachers.

doggy,

Have it your way but we do allow 'humorous'.

The bodily fluids were described in Greek medicine as 'the four humors'.
blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.
The original sense was one of bodily fluid, from the Latin:
Humor ‘moisture’, from humere (see humid).

This led, in the 16th century, to the senses ‘mood/ whim’, hence to humour
someone meant to indulge a person's whim.
It would seem entirely sensible that humor, meaning bodily fluid, and its
effect on temperament, should be differentiated by our modern term 'humour'
describing something that is particularly funny.

Of course, when the British were involved in America, in the early days. we should have (not should of)
sent more teachers out there.
As a result, the people of the USA started to spell many words incorrectly. Neighbor, should be neighbour, for example and color should be colour. There are many words that they mis-spell.

Therefore

Doggy,
I can see that you are an okay kind of guy, with a finger on the pulse.

I have to admire Noel Edmonds on his stance against the BBC TV license.
At least Boris is has taken over from the lacklustre T. May.
Of that I am most grateful.

A blue-screen tonight, shepherds delight!.

I meant (of course) the filter tool on.

I wouldn't be averaging down, there is much more upside to come.
Although, of course we can't necessarily know the exact timing.
A divi in the wings, another buyback, even better results.
I am holding for a good while yet.

If you think there will be a Brexit deal, the pound will rise against the dollar and Euro, so then you could buy an FTSE 250 ETF, a more-domestically focused fund which tracks the index.
If you think that we are not going to see a deal, you could buy one of the FTSE 100 overseas earners, or an FTSE100 ETF

The UK is adopting the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (the EU GDPR) into its domestic law from 1 January 2021.
For a company across the U.K., the EU and beyond there will have to be some sort of co-ordinated compliance via a nominated officer in each country perhaps.
If agencies are holding back on spending from budgets until deal or no deal is clarified, we may have some uncertainty until then.

Well, I was surprised to see the sp even hit 300 this side of Christmas,
I am still below water on my holding unfortunately.
I will hold until the new year with baited breath.
The future for Tremor makes for better reading than weekend skirmishes with
Tory-hating harbingers of doom.

In the days of the French revolution a 'tricoteuse' was a woman who sat and knitted while attending public executions.
Waiting for the heads to roll, from the word tricoter, to knit.
Charles Dickens popularized the tricoteuse, the knitting woman, in his classic 'A Tale of Two Cities'. His character Madame Defarge is one of the novel’s chief villains, an extreme defender of the French Revolution and a vengeful hag. She too perches next to the guillotine, knitting into hats and socks the names of aristocrats to be executed.
In the second half of the 18th century, market women in Paris were the backbone of society. They worked, traded, administered their husbands’ meager salaries, looked after the kids, clothed their families with their knitting and sewing, and made ends meet. They were the barometers of social stability. When they realized they had no more bread to feed their families, they rebelled. They marched on Versailles, demanding bread because they were hungry. That was the spark that started the French Revolution.
In what way are we in that position now?

The EU member states are mainly republics, excepting the Netherlands and Belgium and two Scandinavian countries, which are not really members.
France brutally murdered its royalty in 1792.
As for the effect on the sp for Tremor, of Brexit, I doubt it will be noticed.

We have left and are no longer EU citizens but the agreement has until December 31st to run.
Although Britain technically left the EU on January 31, its relationship with the EU remains the same in practice until the end of the transition period, December 31, 2020.
So far we have 'left' without an agreement, which sounds a little reckless, but that’s the slovenly way in which these Acts are always drawn.

What you seem to be saying, but fail to grasp entirely, is that we can't trade outside the club without being 'punished' even after the agreement has been settled.
We can still negotiate the so-called level playing field demands from the EU until December 31st?
Whether we had a say in those rules which we obeyed (and we typically do) during membership of the Club is irrelevant when member states bend those rules to suit their own internal markets, as per the examples I have given previously.
So you mount a high horse (Ted Heath was good at that) and believe the EU is right and we are wrong.
This should never have happened if the EU had not dismissed concerns raised by D. Cameron when he presented requests to be addressed, instead they haughtily sent him packing.
A federation of member states bound together by laws and red-tape (damaging to small businesses) is not for us and never will be.
As for Covid being used as a scapegoat and then, on the other hand, dismissed and hoping for the end of the Tories, that is becoming party-political and is a regrettable comment.

No! It is all about fair competition, or it certainly should be.
Edward Heath cited his wish for a level playing field and the EU claimed that it wished to negotiate the future trading relationship with the UK on the basis of a ‘level playing field’.
Well they would naturally.
However, the EU’s published negotiating guidelines actually seek to impose on the UK a very unlevel playing field.
A playing field needs to be level at both ends, and the EU negotiating guidelines seek to ensure that the playing field is level at our end, while conveniently ignoring the uphill slopes in its own half of the pitch.
The EU is very adept at disguising its state aid.
One example of this is the way in which it bails out its insolvent banks in defiance of its own rules.
Another example is the European Investment Fund (EIF) which is part of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group. This plus loan guarantees constitute huge levels of state aid that are not reported in official EU figures.
Many EU member states, especially Spain and France have very large subsidies to fish in other people’s waters (and not their own – a real beggar thy neighbour policy, if ever there was one). To the extent that this creates an unlevel playing field for UK fishermen should be factored into the negotiations’.

State aid is the main tool the European Commission has – directly rather than via legislation – to regulate bank resolution; control tax competition; environmental policy; and to control infrastructure spending. The single unifying factor driving this expansion has been the fact that the rules give executive power to the European Commission.
State aid plays a prominent role in the EU’s often- repeated demands for a “level playing field” from the UK. If the EU can get the UK to accept their state aid rules – the European Commission and CJEU [Court of Justice of the European Union] will retain control over much of the UK's fiscal decision making and control the ability of the UK to compete against the EU going forward. Whatever the merits of subsidization as a policy choice, the UK Government should be concerned about state aid by the EU, for the same reason.