Decarbonising Don

Vapourise the BBC

the penne opticon

what is this fuckery JUST DO SHEFFIELD STANDS FFS

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England, government says Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

FFS. Now a *national* school phones ban that will be cheered on by the perennially online without anyone having fully thought through the ramifications. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Found by our delighted son, not sure where.

🎶The only boy who could ever reach me
Was the son of Ralph Miliband

Also, like, I could not do the job of being PM, but given how important the job is it's not unfair to demand that the person who does do it is better at doing it, than this

Plaid might want to check their ad buys because everytime I’m on facebook I’m drowning in their stuff & Cumbria won’t win them the election

My god, when even IDS can put a cogent critique of you together, how badly are you doing?

“I’m not across the detail, dodge responsibility and I have awful political judgement.”
“People are normally more equivocal in their resignations but sure, I accept.”
“Resignation? No, sorry, I was saying that’s why I should stay on.”

For more than a decade, the small hilltop city of Preston in Lancashire has been the site of a leftwing experiment in taking back control. Its council has redirected much of its spending towards local companies, persuaded businesses to pay higher wages and promote diversity, collaborated closely with local public sector institutions and encouraged cooperatives and other collective enterprises that empower residents. It has sought to turn a rundown, ex-industrial place previously dominated by outside corporate interests - the kind of place found across Britain - into a more self-reliant, dynamic, democratic and equal city.

Hilltop city? The centre of Preston is 30m above sea level and it used to have a port. Run down ex industrial area including the Springfield nuclear fuel plant and with two major BAE aerospace sites?

Sorry to hear that.

Did Starmer somehow miss the day when you get taught the first lesson of public administration; "don't pick a fight with the guy who approves the minutes"?

increasingly convinced that the Tfl Cycles app is run by a consortium headed by Jeremy Clarkson, Lime Bikes and Susan Hall, just impossible to do things like "hire a bicycle" when really that just can't be hard to build, as a thing

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Further to my post about the car radio logos, on looking at the FM presets for the first time since The Event, I see the logo for Radio Verulam has appeared, presumably because The Event happened when we were on the M25?

Including, I suspect, himself

Surveying the two dominant strands of the timeline today... "Ousting an unpopular PM is a bit like arriving at the airport for a flight. Sure, doing it too early has some costs, but..."

People on here are being weird about the android running. Obviously it IS a technical achievement.

that is - to use the technical term - aahhh, a spicy meat-a-ball

Surprised no one had already used this one tbh

Why would you brief this out?
Unless perhaps it's a desperate warning as the PM has been up all night drinking and has just left for Parliament on foot carrying an axe

Yeah, I think there's also a thing where Reform supplanting the Tories is old news to politicos, but the May elections are going to be a massive bat-signal to some low-info voters that Reform are a viable party

Also, an underpriced possibility is that we get another 1974 situation where the election does not produce any workable coalition, leading to a second election in a matter of months

Starmer's disastrous '£1bn' US-UK pharma deal may actually end up costing £64bn Investigation finds that Starmer's estimates of the Trump NHS deal are way off - it won't cost £1bn but could balloon to as much as £64bn

While we're on the workings of the UK government today, a moment to reflect on the US pharmaceuticals deal which even if these numbers feel exaggerated is something that really needs parliamentary scrutiny that successive governments have denied for trade deals www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...