People have been very polite and coherent with you. In fact your insinuation that they weren't is the first jarring note.

Planning applications: there may be leopards “It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’ ” So Douglas Adams, writing in 1979, judged the opacity...

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Ever commented on a planning application? Full marks for being an engaged citizen. But did you realise your name and address would be visible to the world? We look at a privacy leak in local democracy… and ask why it’s one rule for the public, another for councillors.

8% of adults in England and Wales faced domestic violence last year. A quarter of those were stalked by the perpetrator.

And the council still insists on publishing names and addresses together on the internet, except for its councillors, due to, you know, the risks

WTF?

Still from Cool Hand Luke where Paul Newman eats a shitload of eggs.

I think walking is actually illegal in Florida, isn't it?

Also hurry up with plug in solar

Politico: Ed Miliband is set to announce today "plans to expand renewables across the public estate (including on brownfield land) … overhauling land access and grid connection processes … and announce plans to make it easier for renters to install heat pumps and EV chargers."

That most of the shitty decisions being made by powerful people right now are because of blackmail based on people being in the Epstein files

It should. But from the sun and the wind.

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook.

Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking:

"Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

It’s almost as if there’s a coordinated campaign by the fossil fuel industry on both sides of the world.

But renewables are coming and are going to march all over them..

Meanwhile tax their profits hard as a punishment for their bad actions

Looking like 2024’s record sea surface temperatures may soon be broken - and that’s *before* the El Niño predicted for later this year kicks in, further supercharging climate impacts.

It’s time for emergency action at a wartime scale both to prepare and to cut emissions.

Weird headline though

And selling the states assets to them cheaply so they could charge rent for it and leverage up to buy everything else. It all started with privatisation.

In the 70's the Government owned Energy, it built houses, it owned Public Services and it employed people.

Now billionaires own it all, and they pay you too.

So every year prices go up more than wages.

It's not complicated why things are only getting worse.

It's billionaires

They promised him a pierogi

Not deranged at all

The president of the United States has labeled more than half the country traitors.

This isn’t just a rant. This is setting up a call for action on his part.

A rather menacing tweet from Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna.

Liz Truss wants a word

Oh the irony of a Tory on @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social talking about vetting appointments. Half the cabinet had inappropriate contact with Russia or Israel

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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Coachella is removing these videos, so they might be about to learn about the Strokesand Effect.

An important shift in perspective.

We often talk about security guarantees for Ukraine. But give Ukraine what it needs, and they will emerge as the most effective military powerhouse that modern Europe has ever known.

Ukraine will be Europe's security guarantee against Russian imperialism.

And just why were they making robots with realistic skin?

EXTRAORDINARY HISTORIC HEAT IN MOROCCO

Mind Blowing MINIMUM 28.7C at Sidi Ifni

HOTTEST APRIL NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MOROCCO

Max. Temperatures are approaching 40C on the coast at Agadir.

Next days record heat also in SPAIN and ALGERIA,Than in the Eastern Mediterranean
HISTORIC

I'm always skeptical of BBC-bashing, but BBC News website hasn't reported on the Tice tax scandal since 12 April, when the headline was "Tice £91,000 tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims".

Not much political judgement going on here if Isabel Oakeshott does not realise that Farage & Tice are senior members of the British establishment. Relevant here is that Oakeshott is the partner of Richard Tice jumping to the defence of Tice & his tax evasion.