So, given you have a 6 month window before things get bad and you want to avoid basic oil subsidies if you can…
… why not have a massive push on heat pumps to replace oil over the summer? Maybe boost the subsidy (to rural Scotland levels - £9k)?
how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter
See also: River Wye. Farming runoff needs much better regulation as well as the water & sewerage industry.
If your gas boiler is coming to end of life why on earth are you looking for a new one ? Want to waste cash ?
Then there are new channels like GB News. While BBC producers sit with stopwatches ensuring that political parties all get a fair say, GB News can do what it likes, thanks to the government's decision to shut down broadcast regulator Ofcom. That has allowed the channel to act as a daily booster for one political party. It is impossible to imagine that, had the Department of Culture and Ofcom not shut their doors in 2024, a "news" channel would have been allowed to have a political party leader as a regular host (indeed, had Labour not also abolished the Electoral Commission, it might have been interested in how a channel whose last set of accounts show it losing £33 million can afford to pay Farage more than £400,000 in less than two years).
Rob Hutton’s evisceration of DCMS was the funniest and angriest thing I’ve read in response to what has happened to UK broadcast media
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Jake Paul claims to be 6'1'', but he got "measured" by people who are dedicated to get the real height from celebrities and such, by standing right next to them. And they concluded: Paul is 5'11'' (180 cm). Trump claims to be 6'3'' (191 cm), but Xi Jinping is 5'11'' and Trump is his exact height.
In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured — and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving.
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We’re still experiencing severe delays on the supersonic service to New York. This is mainly caused because a replacement for Concorde hasn’t been built yet. Please remain at the gate.
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/
I’m old enough to remember the arguments that this level of repairability was impossible to achieve on the thin and ‘light’ constraints Apple adopts for its laptops.
Turns out that all that pesky glue, weird screws, poorly designed accessibility…wasn’t necessary.
I think the world will get a reckoning of how many industrial supply chains are actually dependent on the oil and gas industry. Decarbonisation implies finding ways to handle those aupply chains too.
Jamie Oliver and the British food problem
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/bad-people...
Did the #RoyalNavy tap #Soviet undersea comms cables during the #coldwar?
Listen to an officer on HMS Valiant allude to this. It's here around the 32 min mark. coldwarconversations.com/episode388/
“Jeremy Bowen has given the BBC’s game away If the broadcaster wants us to overlook its own errors, it must keep its journalists on a much tighter leash ” Excerpt From “Opinion: Jeremy Bowen has given the BBC’s game away” Robin Aitken The Telegraph https://apple.news/AGFTg9pN8RTmvqfU3VsZ7EQ This material may be protected by copyright.
“From his lofty perch as the BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen has unleashed a thunderbolt aimed at Donald Trump. In plain language, Bowen has called-out the US president as a liar; in a lengthy personal editorial on the Today programme, he said that Trump had lied over a Tomahawk missile attack on a girls’ school in Iran. He said the president had suggested that Iran itself had fired the missile – but, Bowen said, Iran has no Tomahawks, therefore Trump is a liar. You might think that’s a fair conclusion to draw – many people will – but it raises two questions: is it patently and incontrovertibly the case that Trump lied? And, if so, is it the BBC’s job to say so? Firstly, on the attack itself, the evidence we have suggests the missile was a US Tomahawk. One obvious explanation is that this was a tragic mistake; the wrong target selected, or a missile that veered off course. Could there be another explanation? Possibly but we have no evidence yet for an alternative. ” Excerpt From “Opinion: Jeremy Bowen has given the BBC’s game away” Robin Aitken The Telegraph https://apple.news/AGFTg9pN8RTmvqfU3VsZ7EQ This material may be protected by copyright.
What even is this, attacking the BBC for once speaking the truth in plain and clear language?
on some level I consider the point of civilization to be to allow me not to think about things and I really resent the number of things I am being forced to think about lately
Last week Finland had days when electricity cost under 0.5 eurocents per kWh.
We have had many days with negative price: so by charging your EV you get PAID for it.
But when there's no wind and some big generator, like nuclear plant, is offline for some reason, it has peaked at 60-70 cents.
They Killed Normal and Called It Progress
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They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage
What is supremely daft about this line of attack from Phillipson is that any lawyer motivated by profit would not be acting in special needs cases.
There are far more lucrative areas for any lawyer motivated by profit.
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Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
“Most non-energy investors in the Gulf underpriced risk before the current war, including U.S. tech companies.”
"We look terrible and the public completely disagrees with us. We should stick to this"
Just listened to Jeremy Bowen on the latest Newscast... especially the final 5 minutes. Wow! He doesn't mince his words, albeit very articulate, about the distastefulness of Trump and his chums.
You can sense the intake of breath from the likes of Chris Mason etc.
French news humiliated Trump by airing a split screen of him dancing at a rally while bombs fell in Iran.
A disco anthem on one side.
A war zone on the other. #cdnpoli
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
"I can’t imagine HMRC are very sympathetic here.”
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To be fair the policy of not chasing the polls has been a complete success
Interesting from YouGov in response to Farage’s desperate attempt to shoot the messenger www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
