The sad part is that there's a can of worms just like her in the Conservative Party. She's merely the one that got sacked for it, but the next Tory PM will most likely have the same agenda, although he / she will most likely tread more carefully.
After leaving the EU the UK economy has become extremely unstable, with strikes occurring almost on a weekly basis, just like we had in the 60's and 70's before the UK became a EU member state.
Mind you that the UK isn't self-sufficient in terms of food (hasn't been for more than 120 years) and economic dire straits could actually lead to food shortages and famine!
Reference counting forces the developer to think about memory management.
Apple has a nice talk on ARC [1] but it got me thinking: if I have to think about reference counting this much I might just as well manage memory all by myself.
The true joy of Garbage Collection is that you can just create objects left and right and let the computer figure out when to clean them up. It's a much more natural way of doing things and lets computers do what they're best at: taking tedious tasks out of the hands of humans.