Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse…
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Water companies in England ‘using loopholes’ to avoid paying people left without running water,
Only three water companies out of 17 meet Ofwat’s targets for providing a consistent supply of tap water to customers.
Anything water companies do well?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hurtling to the next financial crash
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Bank of England has watered down capital requirement for banks.
£100bn capital adequacy rollback for insurers. How much will end up in dividends & share buybacks?
And when they hit problems? Who will bail them out?
leftfootforward.org/2024/11/exce...
Remember the global financial crisis? Well, high-risk securities are back.
Abolition of bankers' bonus has sent green light for reckless risk-taking.
Banks are slicing/dicing high risk debt for bigger profits.
Govts will bail them out again. Nothing learnt.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!
Severn Trent announces profits worth millions as it seeks to increase the cost of bills for customers
the supplier to eight million people in Wales & the Midlands, booked £297.8m in pre-tax profit, £42.7m more than a year earlier
news.sky.com/story/severn...
MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
Left: Laura Kuenssberg suggests that Dominic Raab left parliament of his own volition
Right: Dominic Raab was forced to resign after being found guilty of bullying
Why is an MP who resigned because he was found guilty of bullying, on a flagship Sunday morning news chat show?
I see Robert Kennedy's campaign to make America healthy again by ridding it of the poison of fast food is off to a good start...
Also, how cold must that food be and why do they have cutlery on their trays?
This weeks heartbreaking BBCNews report that schoolchildren from struggling families are pretending to eat out of empty lunchboxes to save their embarrassment at having no food is exactly why we should all join @bigissue in calling for a POVERTY ZERO LAW👇
This country is so messed up
No child should have to go through this
To celebrate the exodus from Twitter, here’s a positive one (from 2019) xxxx
My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’
fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...
There should be a permanent hunting ban on MOD land. Follow us if you agree!
King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing
(Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)
youtu.be/pocnThE3nHc
More than a million pallets of unusable Covid PPE, costing £8.6 billion, have so far gone up in smoke
Billions of pounds were spent on completely unusable protective equipment, with a series of priority contracts handed to associates of Conservative ministers
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/m...
A message to BlueSky.
The vile pastime of fox hunting is dying. REPOST and follow @protectthewild.bsky.social and be part of the movement to create a future where wildlife can live in peace.
A massive coral colony dwarfing a single diver
On Wednesday, a team of researchers in the Solomon Islands revealed that they found the world’s largest individual coral colony. It’s the size of two basketball courts.
Just look at this chonky boy!
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Bank of England Boss says we must rebuild relations with Europe after Brexit.
How about we do that by destroying Brexit which provides nothing?
🚨 NEW: Liz Kendall has become the first Cabinet Minister to say she will vote for the Assisted Dying Bill since it was published on Monday
Via @theguardian
