(It's particularly useful if you bought the Kindle books during a periodic sale or offer, because the discount on the audiobook seems to be independent of what you originally paid for the Kindle edition.)
Of course, it depends on you having Kindle books to match in the first place.
However, if you're an avid consumer of audiobooks, you may find it cheaper to buy the Kindle edition and add the discounted audio edition than to just buy the audio edition directly through Audible.
I just scooped up "The Secret Barrister" for £2.99 and "Anathem" for £3.99. That should last me through several weeks of long exercise walks.🚶♂️🎧
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What Labour should say to the Tories about Brexit:
"You told us you had an oven-ready deal. We chose to respect the referendum result by letting you try to implement it. Subsequent events have shown that it was a rotting mess. It is time to reverse the damage you've inflicted."
That instantly defangs the "But you voted for it too..." accusation.
They can lean hard on a sense of fair play:
"Given the large Tory majority and the original outcome of the referendum, it seemed prudent to let you implement a deal that you assured the public was oven-ready."
"But now that it has become clear beyond any doubt that what the British people were promised was not what they got, we feel compelled to step in."
Calling all French-speakers... Is my translation accurate?
NOTE: This is the paragraph from a longer letter that has been causing so much trouble over the last few hours, with many journalists claiming France wants to "damage" the UK.
(Original above, my translation below.)
More context, if you're coming on this story fresh...
Politico's reputation crumbles with stunts like this. If you speak French, you'll see there's been a deliberate mistranslation of what the letter said, in order to stir the pot on Brexit.
(If it's not deliberate then it's incompetent. Most news media took their cues from it.)
The Tory vote on raw sewage discharges is the difference between stomping on the hands of someone who's hanging over a precipice, and failing to haul them to safety.
Tory MPs certainly didn't stomp on their hands. But they walked away knowing they would plunge to their death.
In other words, did they vote to pump raw sewage into Britain's rivers and coastlines? No, of course not.
But they could have outlawed a practice which has been going on in defiance of EU law (EU were trying to prosecute us before we left) and which has no legal consequence now.
Here's what the Environment Bill will do in its now unamended form.
(See excerpt below from an MP's blog.)
If that doesn't sound like much, it's because it isn't. Lots of report writing, precious little action.
"Gaffe-prone minister Gillian Keegan dismisses as 'teething trouble' huge health data bungle that saw 16,000 Covid-19 cases 'missed' because of outdated software, saying 'these things do happen'" dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
This Gillian Keegan...
"Education minister posted snaps of holiday in French Alps as exam fiasco unfolded"