UK Biobank health data listed for sale in China, government confirms The government said medical data of 500,000 people was affected but no personally identifiable information had been made available.

The problem with our personal data is it's subject to breach/hack

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit Government advisers call for review of rules that cause loss of household income when a child takes up job training

How to disincentivise work and training in one easy lesson 🙄. This is plain stupid.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Royal Mail invests £500m to tackle late deliveries as second-class post cut back Courier promises to meet new delivery targets by next May after being fined last year for poor record

Royal Mail scandal.

2nd-class post will be delivered every other weekday, scrapped on Saturdays.

Company hasn't met any letter delivery targets since privatisation, so regulator reduces targets.

Price won't be reduced for worse service

Promise of £500m investment by ripping off customers.

Message for potential Reform voters...

I fully endorse this🎨

That's what tea urns prevent.
Samova?
Quite local actually.

The Bayeux Tapestry A combination of verse from Simon Armitage and prose from Jeff Young lends a voice to the chain of events depicted on the famous Bayeux Tapestry. This production chronicles the history surrounding the...

I had no idea this was even available - or if I’ve even heard it.
The Bayeux Tapestry, Simon Armitage and Jeff Young BBC Radio 4… a long time ago.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/439896...

Now that Farage has ditched the £ for crypto, presumably he won’t object if the UK does the same and joins the €.

(1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address:

williamgibsonauthor@gmail.com.

About this empty space on the table between us... Should it not be occupied by pudding?

What, like "lift your feet while I vacuum, dearest"; "There's extra pie if you lower the lid" and "If you wash your hands, who knows what later may transpire"?

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

Put on her helmet
Called it american football
But nobody cared
Quarterback fled
All the rugby people
They laughed 'til they were sick
All the rugby people
They think Gridiron's schtick

Enough for one individual in particular to have possibly fed a further two thousand five hundred-ish.
But what happened to those scraps, we are never told.

Well, yes, but with the proviso that one pretends it to be 'for the dog'.
Woof.
🐕🐩🐶🐾

😁😆

About this empty space on the table between us... Should it not be occupied by pudding?

For the most part, men's faults are perfectly amenable to a wife's gentle influence.

What, like "lift your feet while I vacuum, dearest"; "There's extra pie if you lower the lid" and "If you wash your hands, who knows what later may transpire"?

Why a Liverpool railway station is getting a statue of a cat Paul the cat was a regular feature at Liverpool South Parkway Station.

Paul, the Liverpool South Parkway cat

"Why a railway station is getting a statue of a cat"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#cats #catsofmastodon #stationcat #liverpoolsouthparkway #liverpool

Starting February 18, 2027, smartphones and many portable devices sold in the EU must have batteries that users can remove and replace more easily. That means #Apple #Samsung #Google #Xiaomi etc may need to redesign future devices to meet the new rules www.business-standard.com/technology/t...

Enough for one individual in particular to have possibly fed a further two thousand five hundred-ish.
But what happened to those scraps, we are never told.

Well, yes, but with the proviso that one pretends it to be 'for the dog'.
Woof.
🐕🐩🐶🐾

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...

We have six weeks' worth of Kerosene. Experts call for a European-wide, concerted effort to save aviation fuel & develop a triage system. They point out the importance of cargo, aid, & medical flights. And what are people worried about? Their holidays.

Spoiler:
Add the word 'band' to the search.
Most are a bingo*

Tested with 'duckduckgo'

67 years old

Happy Birthday Robert Smith, lead guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984 and continuous member of post-punk band The Cure since 1978, born on this day in 1959 in Black Pool, UK

📸 Tom Sheehan

#robertsmith #postpunk #history #otd

“If I go back to how I was when I was a younger man, my plan was to keep doing this till I fall over, my idea of when I fell over wasn’t this old.”

European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

European alternatives for popular online / digital services. I already use e.g TomTom, Ecosia, Le Chat…
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...

As any electrician will tell you whilst pulling a foreigner somewhere on the moors in the aftermath of a hurricane.