Turned up on the Tuesday instead of the Wednesday or something.

I can only assume she joined Labour, instead of the conservatives due to an unfortunate miscommunication.

Pygmy Hedgehogs are kept as pets, but not sure domesticated label really fits...

Have to make do with watching them crunch their way through kitten biscuits we put out for them.

Ed Davey absolutely skewered him yesterday.

The lack of clear succession is the only thing keeping Starmer in number 10.

Wes "don't believe the smears" Streeting currently lying low (and deeply unpopular with public), Rayner still has tax issues, Al Carns lacks visibility and Burnham not MP

I feel the (outside civil service) political appointee point isn't taken with enough seriousness, and in itself should be grounds for Starmer to go...

My mind has been writing cheques that my body can't cash.

However reliability is even more important with fewer assets.

Working within context of the ever decreasing manpower available, fewer assets covering greater roles seems somewhat inevitable.

Emma Shorter was told people who don’t recover from behavioral treatment for #MECFS have made the illness their personality. She was told not to meet other patients and to trust the therapist over her own body. She went from walking 4 mins a day to needing a wheelchair.

The Epstein links were known at the time, not the full facts, but more than enough was publicly available. there were jokes...

He was a political appointment to a civil service position, which should be end of story... But then he failed vetting but that was overruled by already being announced.

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

And a moth staircase.

Road lighting is a mess. Wasn't there questions about whether flashing lights were legal (20+ years ago)?

It's definitely better than the indicators on some cars, and bin lorries(!) that progressively light up and then turn off.

Instead of grabbing your attention like a flashing light it's soft..

We’re fighting for transparency over Palantir NHS briefing documents | Good Law Project Wes Streeting is refusing to publish documents that will provide the truth about the risks of Palantir’s systems for handling our health records, so we’re fighting back

In public, Wes Streeting is furiously back-pedaling from his earlier Palantir cheerleading.

But in private he is refusing to let us see what civil servants told him about Palantir

So, with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social, we are taking him to court to try and force him to hand over the briefings.

There was a large flash and a bang about 2 seconds later last night (22:03), I presume firework, but I'm wondering if it was a meteorite/meteor?

"Improved performance"

Why Big Cities Make Your Allergies Worse YouTube video by Prof Gio | Giordano Scarciotti

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwPQ...

Watched a video covering this the other day. Seems pollution affects the pollen too.

Basic problem for UK defence policy is that:

a) UK armed forces are in a state
b) UK spends more than its peers to get less
c) Treasury (IMV rightly) distrusts the present political leadership of MOD to improve b) and is therefore reluctant to spend more money
d) PM refuses to break deadlock

The cost of poverty for the economy is significant, a weak economy is not great for military capabilities.

Austerity and privatisation has been ruinous to virtually every single area of the country, but made some individuals, and groups very wealthy.

How much of this was MoD, and how much was political pressure...

Going back the Nimrod programme was a mess as the government seemed to go for the "cheaper" option of refurbishment, rather than new builds. Which caused the cost to massively spiral.

Many companies (and individuals) have done very well out of all of this, at the expense of UK citizens.

Didn't they outsource recruitment, with the effect of struggling to both recruit and retain people.

All of the research establishments were flogged off too.

Ajax was presumably due to failing to buy off the shelf option from abroad, trying to change the design too much, and build it in UK.

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

The 16 years of austerity and cuts to welfare did not increase military readiness, in fact the opposite...

It seems a false parallel to equate Military issues to welfare spending, even in the context of "no borrowing for spending."

Why did it take so long to publish the review given the seriousness of it?

This government's military inheritance is shocking.

It also feels like he's being the bad cop to push through treasuries welfare cuts that lead to U-turn following backlash previously.

All to do with the money in appealing to the US news market.

I thought it had turned up just now, but was a DPD delivery of something that was expected to be delivered tomorrow.

I hadn't realised DHL were as bad as Royal Mail for deliveries.

Will my parcel turn up today? It's already after the delivery window they have given me.

Or will they send me another notification that they were "unable to access" my house?

Today, as we celebrate the defeat of Viktor Orbán in the Hungarian election, let’s pay tribute to Seb Vettel, who famously wore this #SameLove T-shirt during the 2021 #F1 #HungarianGP weekend, to protest the anti-#LGBTQ+ laws introduced by Orbán’s government at that time. 🌈