I used to think that that costs of climate catastrophe, as opposed to those of preventing and mitigating it, would eventually concentrate minds, but I increasingly fear that the eugenicist mindset of today’s billionaire class means they are quite ok with mass extinction so long as they survive.
Solar Energy UK's chief is unsurprised by the surge: “Solar has such a dramatic impact on bills. Even before the latest energy crisis, last year saw a record 258,000 small-scale installations completed, largely on houses. The two million [total] mark will be crossed within weeks.”
Dundee Courier: DRUNKEN POLICE CHASE TEEN IN COURT.
Grammar is important.
I'm watching the Jimmy Savile documentary on Netflix and it's remarkable how much it's actually about how Thatcherism hollowed out public institutions such as hospitals so that they came to rely on the largesse of private entrepreneurs who, now being indispensable, were able to act with impunity
Can confirm that blaring out an album by some whiny lovesick youth keen to express his feelings by alternating between bleating & shouting to music composed after a cursory glance at ‘Boy’s Own Book of Noddy & Predictable Chords’ at 8.30 AM does not enhance the municipal swimming pool experience…
The bugger never showed up when I went. Maybe you’ll have better luck, especially if they’ve replaced him with Big Sam until the end of the season.
Although…Johnson was forced out & he most certainly has no conscience (also Truss). Their own party has to force them out. Over to you, Labour MPs. I won’t hold my breath…
I think it’s going to be a ‘right back at you…’
It certainly will be for me.
We should collect all the extraneous esses used at the end of Tesco in Britain and send them to the USA to be used at the end of math.
But surely nobody could possibly foresee any problems…
A bigot’s charter to target & cause a lot of trouble for any University they choose
A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!
Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....
Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz
My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
I’ve said this before, but I was one of those who mocked the idea of media study in the past. Now, I think it might well be the single most important subject. Should be compulsory in schools.
In a nutshell. 😊
Paisley Daily Express JESUS APPEARS IN PUB
“Twelve bottles of water please”
“I’ve told you before - you’re barred”
Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.
The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.
Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.
They have created their own parallel fantasy world that bears little or no resemblance to reality. Just like The Trumpians…
Those in charge (& their apologists) don’t seem to have grasped the fact that the media will be hostile to Labour whether they do the right things or the wrong things. Doing the wrong things to try & appease them is a stupid strategy (as well as…wrong)
Yes, the media holds Labour to higher standards than the Tories and Reform.
So do I. I expect higher standards from Labour. That should be part of the main point of Labour. We expect Tories to be self-serving, corrupt and nasty. We expect Reform to be bigots and racists. Labour, not so much.
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Aladdin Sane was released on this day in 1973. First Bowie album I bought as soon as it came out.
‘Battle cries and champagne
Just in time for sunrise’
First and foremost, as always, himself…
(just like Johnson, Trump & far too many others)
I for one welcome our new cannibalistic jellyfish with a vanishing anus overlords…
Bolton Wanderers players dancing together at a Christmas Party (1920s).
From the Bolton Museum.
Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.
Someone should update the Buzzcocks song that goes ‘I hate fast cars’ changing fast to fat. Fat cars are everywhere
Would be quite funny if Mandelson brought the whole Blue Labour project crashing down
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#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.
