My vacuum cleaner is over 32 years old. While it still seems to work, I borrowed a nearly new one at the weekend and have now fully vacuumed the carpets in my three rooms with it. I am amazed how much dust (and miscellaneous debris) the new cleaner removed from each.
To be fair, the sub-headline slightly misrepresents her position. The article says "She said countryside solar schemes should be smaller and locally operated, and called for a stronger drive for solar panels to be installed on rooftops of public and private buildings instead."
You'd think whoever is planning this sort of thing in the UK would consider how Just Stop Oil's attempts at disrupting traffic changed its level of public support.
I don't get this. Its policy here seems to have the intention of attempting to suppress freedom of speech. However, on its website, one of its clearly stated policy positions is 'Reform UK will defend free speech'.
In my wild garden I don't completely remove anything. I may thin some back occasionally, but it all has its place. Some of the plants you mention (e.g. dandelions, ivy and bramble) support insects and snails and hence birds, which fertilise. After 30 years mine seems to have found an equilibrium.
For that matter, if Glossop North End (formerly known as Glossop, but the same club), which are currently in the North West Counties League Premier, win 8 successive promotions (they'll have to start next year now), I calculate they will make it back (in 2034) after a 134 year absence!
Actually, there is a web page (www.tbsnews.net/sports/longe...) dedicated to this question. If it is correct then we also have Bradford City 77 yrs (1922-1999), Oldham Athletic 68 yrs (1923-1991), Bristol City 65 yrs (1911-1976), Notts County 55 yrs (1926-1991), Cardiff City 51 yrs (1962-2013).
Luton: 31 years, 1992-2023?
OK, accidentally poor choice of word. I meant of course "... the difference between the King undertaking a state visit and there being no state visit ...".
I doubt the difference between the King attending and the King not attending would change anyone's view of Trump, particularly as during a visit the King's public words will be chosen carefully and will focus on the relationship between the UK and the US (as countries).
Trump holds grudges though and does have tools that can hurt a country in the short term (e.g. tariffs). I think he will have a lot else (impeachment investigations etc.) to distract him domestically after the US mid-term elections in November so not rocking the boat may be best in the short-term.
This visit is not going to result in any permanent improvement in the relationship with Trump. However, often political choices are about the least bad option. I'd prefer to have a strategy that is a series of '1 step forward 3 steps back' than a strategy that only involves a series of 3 steps back.
Yes, this is a very good Killer Sudoku puzzle (by Adem Jaziri): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NyC.... I eventually managed to solve it (on paper), although took a lot longer than the 47.5 minutes Simon Anthony took in the video.
It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌
I agree the BBC could have done more. However, there were some mixed messages on the march and it wasn't *that* large in comparison to some others (I tend to think it would be nearer 50k than 500k from everything I have seen). Also I am not sure I want to see every far right protest reported.
(3/3) Changing mindsets in this way does affect support for political parties that have aligned agendas. It's difficult to tackle (given freedom of speech considerations) but perhaps a start would be to require by law that all AI-generated videos (on any subject) must be prominently labelled as AI?
(2/3) Examples include fake AI videos of (i) large numbers of Muslims praying in ordinary streets and (ii) a Muslim schoolgirl saying that her school should consider closing its canteen during Ramadan fasting hours. It is so far from reality, but some people won't know that. How do we tackle that?
(1/3) At the moment there is a lot of underlying political campaigning by non-political parties (possibly produced outside the UK) to try to change mindsets. For example, I keep getting fake AI-generated videos in my feeds that are aimed at shifting perceptions of Muslims in a negative direction.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
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Maybe it is seen by those who are pushing continued fossil fuel use, as the gateway to commencing fracking on land? (Fracking, which is unpopular in the UK, will be even more unpopular if the public does not see fossil fuels in the North Sea being extracted to the maximum.)
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
It's the snail's garden as much as your garden.
I think the kindest way to move a snail is to put a leaf in front of it and wait for it to move onto the leaf. Then you can move both and put the leaf down gently where you would prefer the snail to be.
This is a good news local government story - www.north-herts.gov.uk/news/bin-cre.... Credit to Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens and (East Herts only, when in power) Conservatives for making it happen. Shame on North Herts Conservatives for consistently opportunistically opposing it.
I do not think it matters if on polling day Labour calls on someone ex-Labour who is now intending to vote Green tactically. A few might change their minds (about who is stronger) if they do not also get a Green visit. It is important to avoid calling on Labour-to-Reform switchers though.
I think Labour would have put a similar effort in even if it expected to come third. It is important to maximise the party's performance whatever voters choose to do.
It is a political party (not yet registered, but the application is being processed) led by the ex-Reform MP (Rupert Lowe) who Elon Musk supports. It is even further to the right than Reform (and personally I find many of its policies appalling in the way it would treat certain people).
There is for voters who normally support the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats and who are also either strongly pro- or anti- Reform. However, with this polling, I think Labour and Green supporters should just vote as they see fit and not try to guess whether to tactically support the other.
