You are quite right. However, many solutions have existed for decades. Passive houses? Electrification? Wind/hydro? Public transport and cycling? Land use planning?
No need to wait for battery or solar tech improvements, and would have tackled social inequality.
The time to act was 30 years ago.
NASA using psi, fps, mph, etc. in a moon mission in 2026! USA is weird.
This, however, is not a reason why Guardian, a British paper, should have to use imperial (sorry, US customary) units with a readership that almost entirely was taught in metric – especially when reporting STEM news!!
Interestingly they have time to repost football content on X, but no time to deal with customers
Be warned that @youfibre.bsky.social is not a reputable company. They are completely uncontactable via any medium and randomly cut people’s internet service off #youfibber #youfibre #scam
Agreed – as long as it is enforced, of course, and I don’t think there is the political will to enforce it. When I do drive at the speed limit, I am invariably one of the slowest cars on the road. Red-light jumping and driving the wrong way to jump queues is something I see every day now.
“Welcome to @youfibre “We’re here to save the world from bad Broadband “By killing it with even worse customer service”
@youfibre.bsky.social Here’s a meme for you:
@youfibre.bsky.social Perhaps you are realising tou have a problem on your hands? My internet which you summarily cut off, claiming I hadn’t paid, is back on.
But you don’t have the decency to admit you messed up, or even reply at all. Cowards.
@youfibre.bsky.social Emails unanswered, no-one answering on the error-prone phone line, 24h for response from chat “support”, cancelling my direct debit then threatening disconnection – and I have only been with you for a few days!
If you’ve messed up, time you fessed up. What has gone wrong?
🗳️ BREAKING | Greens surge to 2nd (YouGov)
➡️ Ref: 23% (-1)
🟢 Grn: 21% (+4)
🔵 Con: 16% (-2)
🔴 Lab: 16% (-2)
🟠 Lib: 14% (=)
Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 Mar (+/- vs 23 Feb)
Freezing rail fares = step in right direction
But if Keir Starmer wants to "put train travel back into the service of passengers not profits" he must
🚄bring ROLLING STOCK into public ownership
🚄give PASSENGERS a real say
🚄kick ALL private profits out
www.cityam.com/rail-fares-f...
My daughters seem to know very little in the realm of govt, current issues or geography (even compared to teenage me); they reference SM posts for “news” and be surprised when we explain that the report is fake, and how we can tell. What do we know about long-term effects of SM on citizenship?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... As parent to three teenage girls, thank you for this @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. In my experience, controls are circumvented most by those who most need them! However, I remain v worried about consequences for attention span, general knowledge, critical thinking.
Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever
Looking forward to the Kicking Hornets’ Nests Party to enter a coalition with the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party
The problem as I see it is this: Labour thinks that the only way to “remain one of Britain’s major parties” is to try to be one of only two political parties, because Labour (the party) is far more traditionalist and less democratic than Labour (the members and supporters) believe it is.
What is this problem with “foreign-born voters” anyway? I have lived abroad, and I found I very rapidly became interested in politics, economy, culture of my host country, just because I lived there. Everyone wants the country where they live to prosper, even if they disagree on political views.
Despicable. If Labour had not squashed electoral reform back in 1998-9, there would be no need for smaller parties to have to discuss who stands aside.
As for drugs: so Starmer would rather criminalise users who need help, while they resort to crime in desperation to pay their dealers? Nice guy.
Also: watch out, Hannah the Extremist Plumber is coming – she’ll plumb your water softener into your primary circuit 😈
I don’t think even Labour members will feel comfortable with that aspersion being cast. (Quite apart from the fact that there are some pretty left-wing MPs and members in the Labour Party too 😁)
Problem is, many who should (and do?) know better equate Green politics with “trees and stuff”, and regard Green policies as optional.
But you can’t have a “nice life” without an environment that can support it, and you can’t expect people in poverty to care about protecting the environment.
Congratulations, Hannah, on a well deserved win! So sad I’m just outside the constituency and couldn’t vote for you.
Thank you to voters of G&D – you won’t regret choosing Hannah!
Also: is it *finally* time to replace FPTP with a fair voting system that reflects the new multi-party reality?
And yet it is well-evidenced that “progressives” tend to take less kindly to being told how to vote, precisely because they give less weight to tradition or authority when making decisions.
Are Minnesotans not wondering by now whether they should apply to accede to Canada? After all, the USA is a federal republic not a unitary state, so surely Washington wouldn’t stop you… 🤨
We can fund our daughter through university, if she gets in.
But even from a selfish viewpoint, I want my daughter to study (and socialise) with the brightest, most motivated students, not those with the richest parents.
Yet another reason why the well-off should *also* want progressive taxation.
I salute your optimism, but there is zero hope of Labour introducing PR. They had an excellent opportunity back in 1998, and just… abandoned it. Now it will just look like a cynical effort to block Reform getting a majority and end up in an embarrassing U-turn.
(I hope I’m wrong)
Rename Alan Turing Way to Nigel Farage Swagger
But Labour has already blocked Andy Burnham for this seat so…
(sorry, cheap shot)
To be fair, there are mechanisms of royal succession by appointment rather than heredity. However, your point is still good: either one believes something magical happens when the successor is chosen, or one does not… and I certainly don’t!
No party that claims to believe in democracy should be defending FPTP, but Labour does, over and over again.
And yet, if Labour had acted on the recommendations of the Jenkins Commission in 1998 THAT THEY SET UP and brought in PR, all this panic about “splitting the vote” would be in the past.
Dear Lucy Three weeks ago you wrote me a bizarre letter in an attempt to hold on to voters who Labour have for too long taken for granted in Gorton and Denton. First, I’d like to give my apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I've been busy on the ground with Hannah Spencer talking to voters about the issues that matter to them – lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services. You'll appreciate most of your letter is out of date now, but I'm sure you'll have seen the poll that came out today, that puts us in first place and Reform in second. Labour are a distant third and it’s now clearer than ever that your party cannot win in Gorton and Denton. If you are as concerned about stopping Reform as you proposed in your letter, the course is now clear: in the spirit in which you wrote to me, you should now urge your members and former voters to back Hannah Spencer on the 26th February to stop Reform and make hope normal again. Kind regards, Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales P.S – Hannah looks forward to saying hi in Parliament!
Dear Lucy Powell,
A response to your letter: