Investing in a declining resource with a shrinking market hardly seems a wise idea. Badenoch must be desperate for fossil fuel cash donors if she's openly adopting ideas from Trump and Farage.
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Investing in a declining resource with a shrinking market hardly seems a wise idea. Badenoch must be desperate for fossil fuel cash donors if she's openly adopting ideas from Trump and Farage.
How long before it flags up an innocent person as a shoplifter? Hopefully, it will be someone who can defend themselves.
I take it saying "black shoes" is no longer enough for schools. My school's catchment included the then poor areas of Brixton and Peckham and the only things you had to buy from a particular shop were a tie and sew-on badges for a blazer you could buy anywhere. So much easier and cheaper than now.
Perhaps Starmer should start implementing policies that won him the election instead of trying to appease Reform supporters at every opportunity. Didn't expect him to be a Johnson-style extrovert (thankfully) but did think he'd have the courage to fight bigotry.
Looked at what Musk was reposting and supporting this morning and realised how distorted his view of the UK has become, which begs the question why our Government is still on there. They can't argue they're countering Musk's misinformation because he's making sure their posts aren't being seen.
You'd think a barrister would know how to stand up for himself instead of giving in to Reform every time.
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Frankly, after all the warnings, anyone who still uses ivermectin for anything other than parasites deserves everything they get. If they harm their children by making them take it they should be prosecuted.
This was probably the Stanford she got a place at. It's in Truss' old constituency.
Sadly, it's probably the former.
That's the clever one.
They now prefer the St George's flag because they keep getting the Union flag upside down.
Except they'd spell it "nites". Was wondering why there are two up the ladder then realised it must be because one was too thick to work out how to come down.
Do any of these "patriots" know which way up to fly the Union Flag?
Give Farage 5yrs as PM and they probably won't be able to vote again. He'll follow his orange hero's example.
When any party even tries to excludes the press from council meetings your first question should be "what is that party trying to hide?"
We call ours the sous chef because he's always under the chef.
Someone certainly found a way to make their Harvard look a bit different.
What was it about people in glass houses?
Our "romantic" night together was spent huddled together, wearing jumpers and socks, with our coats over the extra blankets. The corridors were warmer than the room, which probably had bugger all insulation.
Just seen The Bell Hotel, Epping, pictured from a different angle and realised I stayed there one night in the early 70s. The original inn had a 60's motel-style extension and it was bloody freezing because a fuel crisis meant the Government ordered hotels to switch off room heating in January.
Frankly, I'm shocked, but not surprised, it isn't already done like that.
Is BBCNews' AI rewrite experiment beginning to crack up? Yesterday it was Yorkshire firemen facing exploding WW2 "ordinance" and today it's "bigus firms", and they don't correct it when people mock it on social media.
It's done it again: repeated a word I didn't repeat. 🤨
I'm guessing assassins who couldn't remember whether poison came came out with or without the control hole covered didn't last long.
Probably best to warn the mobile library staff not to accept a cuppa from anyone while they're out.
Wonder how they'd work this? Ban a shape, so many hatchbacks, like the Renault Captur, would be treated the same as a Hummer? Or ban cars above a certain weight or measurements, regardless of shape?
PS: I only know this because I had to do a Secret Santa for a Grimsby fan.
Harry Haddock is Grimsby Town's unofficial mascot. The fans got quite upset when a club said they couldn't take their inflatable haddocks to an away game. Probably not allowed in hypocausts either, because he might end up as a smoked haddock. www.marinersdirect.co.uk/Harry-Haddock
His obsession for for air fryer salt and vinegar crisps is getting out of hand.
Too many on the right like telling us we don't need ECHR because its safeguards are enshrined in our laws. MPs must know that in Parliament *they* make and amend laws so they must know they're lying when they say we don't need ECHR. That's why it was set up: to stop politicians eroding human rights.
Oh yes, Muln Aifc is Latin for Harry Haddock.
First time they tested it I'd just visited a King's Lynn museum that had a section on the 1953 floods, where people woke to find the sea in their homes. I wondered how many lives an alert would have saved but X users told me the fact I used a 70yo disaster as an example "proved" we don't need it.
It must have reminded them of you as a child.
Didn't he play for Arsenal?
Probably a good time to post this from the @cabinetofficeuk.bsky.social . We are glad to have this option for the extreme cases where we might need to warn people to evacuate such as flash flooding
Oddly, a large number of X users seem terrified of it with some convinced that even if they disable it on their phone, the Government will still be using it to spy on them or do something evil like vaccinate them. Wonder if other countries who have it get such weird responses to testing it.
Must say I was shocked to see the once highly respected Nottingham Post now has a circulation of only 6,491, according to its owners Reach, in a city of 329,300 people.
If Reform's fuhrer can't be bothered to hold constituency surgeries, why would the councillors bother to talk to constituents?
But that's just a coincidence because Donnie has a nice picture of himself with his bestest Russian friend so it was all a great success and will make it the 20th war he's stopped. 🤪
Great way to think of it but, sadly, I wonder how much written today will be readable in 2641. Chances are, it would be "archived" electronically and in a file format or storage system we won't even have a way of accessing by 2050.
In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇
Unless it was a cunning ploy to get enemies to strike low so you could bring your weapon (the sharp one) down on their heads. Though if you weren't quick enough your after battle celebrations were probably limited.
Bit puzzled that he's wearing a torc and chest armour but appears to be naked below the waist. Did they really do that?
Not sure Evri and Yodel are great rivals to Royal Mail. Neither can be bothered to deliver to places outside urban areas. Evri always pretends there's something wrong with our address while Yodel's driver said 3.5mi was "too far" for him to drive out of the village, neither of which stop the postie.
Are you sure Musk hasn't lost one of his rockets?
I'm sure it's ordnance that's been exploding.
Wasn't yesterday's unwarranted Farage Fest enough for BBC News?
17 yrs is 70% longer than our home's first gas boiler.
Those people must be torists.
Perhaps Musk would like to be first to fly into space on a rocket that's so far had a one in 10 success rate? He could take Trump with him as a "let's make up" gift.
It's like sorting things out after someone dies: you end up wondering why everyone behaves as if it's an unusual occurrence.
I've usually thought accusations of BBC News bias were unjustified, but today's Farage coverage has been almost sycophantic. Farage, his party and its feeble policies don't deserve this sort of coverage. Whoever took the decision to give it this unjustified level of exposure should be investigated.
You might have to explain "honest" to him.
If Farage thinks our Government abused her rights he could always help her take it to the ECHR. 🤭
Some beach access points have nearly as many warning signs as a building site entrance.
You don't have to be very clever to work out that it's wise not to vote for a party that says it will abolish anything before finding out what it means. Brexit is a fine example. But no, if anyone raises what it means they'll believe their Nige dismissing it as "project fear" again.
There are occasions when Musk's Grok AI gets it right.
Always wondered what they were called elsewhere. When I was at primary school in 50s south London, there was a gummed paper manufacturer in Camberwell whose trademark was the C Beauty. Their factory had a tiled frontage with a huge CB at the top and they once sent the school 100s of stick-on ones.
No, it's a tree sparrow, which is much rarer. It has an all brown cap and white cheek patches where a house sparrow has a black/grey cap and no white on its head. scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/2018/07/hous...
Suggesting any of Felicity's kids might do a worse job than Trump is a bit if an insult.
It's not your usual hunting image with the hunter taking on something that can fight back, like a wild boar or big cat. Perhaps the person who commissioned it thought that was too scary.
Frightening thing is the people who vote for Reform are too thick to understand repealing the Human Rights Act and leaving ECHR would remove everyone's rights, including theirs. They don't even know what rights they'd be giving up.
On R4 news the reporter made a point of Reform only having 4 MPs, so perhaps doesn't agree with the news editor's obsession. Far more worrying is Farage not only wants us out of ECHR, he wants to repeal our Human Rights Act and Reform voters are thick enough to think that would only affect migrants.
But with CGI getting it wrong is no cheaper than getting it right.
Your dedication to doing the right thing is admirable, even if it means you only get pizza a couple of times a year.
I don't understand is why they get it wrong when they're using CGI. It's not like the old days of having to use medieval walls for Roman city walls or the wrong mark of Spitfire for the Battle of Britain because that's all there was, they can create exactly the right thing so why don't they?
You know you can have a pizza without having to do this?
The Mail is getting worse. It's always had a reputation for not to letting the facts get in the way of what its editors decree is the story, but they now don't even care if the photos fail to support it.
Looks like someone's used TapestShop to me.
Perhaps we should change some wildlife names to reflect their decline: the once-common darter, gull, crane etc. Sadly, it would mean having to change a lot of names.
Don't worry, if you were going to get caught in a timeslip it would have happened by now and you'd be posting from the pre-dissolution Abbey in BSE.
Why do TV and film companies do it? Take a dramatic true story and try to "improve" upon it. I stopped watching SAS Rogue Heroes because of that: there were too many dramatic, poignant and heroic *true* incidents dumped for fictionalised versions that weren't as dramatic, poignant or heroic.
Is it just crap or is it so crap it's worth watching for a laugh?
Trump has been duped by Putin at every turn yet he's still gullible enough to allow himself to be photographed holding up a pic of his meeting with his heartthrob, like a lovelorn teenager.
It's so refreshing to see important RNLI safety warnings like this without replies from thick Farage worshippers who think lifeboats are rescuing boatloads of migrants caught in rip currents off Wales.
Just looked up the weight of conglomerate stone and it seems a lump that big would weigh 6-10 tonnes so setting it upright would have been an enormous effort. It's mind boggling to think of people doing that with ropes and levers when it would be no small job with modern machinery.
It's survival suggests that bit of mud hasn't moved for centuries. You'd think the river bottom would be constantly shifting.
Dean must be very thin if it thought he was a reed.
Really can't see how the pub ban will work. How will pubs know someone is banned? Who's going to remove them? If you claimed to be a non-drinking football fanatic could you get yourself banned from something you don't give a toss about?
Glad he's OK and you're on your way home. Take care.
Just your average day at work... 👀
No doubt his sequel to The Art of the Deal will be called My Struggle.
If she takes after her dad, Trump will pardon her then find she's taken his pension.
It does that to you. At 3am this morning I suddenly thought of a possible quick remedy for our wobbly patio paving slabs, though now I'm not sure it'll work. I'll wait to see what's revealed in the early hours of Sunday.
Having seen the photos the Telegraph used, the smiling, pointy chin one must have been taken decades ago. Either that or prison food is so good it added another unpointy chin.
Doesn't everyone occasionally forget how many wars they've ended? 🤪 Don't worry, Donnie, you can ask the Nobel Committee to list them all on the Peace Prize.
"Don't you have a crown, Mr President?"
And according to Mel Gibson's portrayal 690 years later, he went through all that with the sort of grimace you'd associate with bad indigestion.
Always avoided tea abroad because of odd presentations but was once pleasantly surprised when someone took me to a salon de thé near Albi Cathedral and it was surprisingly good. They served various teas however you wanted them including à l'anglais, done in a teapot with cold milk served in a jug.
Hope you and your family are OK.
Would have thought the real headline here was that anti-migrant protesters were significantly outnumbered by counter protesters.
Amazing that there still seem to be idiots who think posting things on social media is like saying something to a like-minded mate on the phone. Why can't they understand that it's more like publishing your thoughts in a book that anyone can read, including those who don't agree with you?
I think we can accept Judge Inman has been proven entirely correct on the lack of insight. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
So the court agreed with her lawyers that this was an unfair contract Excel couldn't enforce but Excel is still insisting it was "fair" and trying to enforce it? Probably best to avoid Excel car parks.
Only surprise is that she hasn't blamed migrants for her hateful stupidity.
Yes, Trump has been manipulated but you might be being a bit unfair about the "military flypast" for Putin. They were B2 stealth bombers so it could be seen as reminding Putin that he has nothing as advanced as that. Was probably one of the few sensible things they did, so doubt it was Trump's idea.
No democracy would be daft enough to elect someone like that...oh.
Those figures look so real in the photo. Are they as convincing up close?
