Looks like a policy laser-targeted to start a fight with Westminster/the courts over the UK Internal Market Act and market-access principles; and with it, attempt to hitch the old the constitutional fight to the crisis du jour. If you're debating whether the SNP understands markets, you're losing..
This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era.
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www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...
Maybe if you enable vertical tabs and tab groups it'll stop bugging you...
It's made of wood and not visible from the road, which seemed to satisfy the heritage impact (which is mostly about the conservation area along the village high street).
The flood risk assessment was indeed pretty straightforward, but was required by the planning process because of where we live.
Any platform above 30cm needs planning permission, this is often ignored, but give ours overlooks neighbours' property we wanted to be confident of being in the right.
The heritage impact was because we're in a conservation area, the flood risk because the front garden is in a flood risk area.
As somebody who had to make a planning application to install a climbing frame in his back garden, including a flood risk assessment and a heritage impact statement, there are many ways in which uses of "your" land is already controlled.
Clang-clang-clang-clang - youtu.be/SzM9bPQ2bCc?...
(Definitely remember these from my youth - from the level crossing inconveniently in the middle of Poole High Street for example)
First attempt based on that recipe is spicier and less fishy than the original, and not as salty even after following suggestions in the comments to add more salt.
Now I've a few months worth to get through before trying again...
Dear Bsky, stop culture-warring this. It's a salty, umami spread that goes well with eggs on toast, not a badge of support for xenophobic nationalism.
In light of the tragic news that the vital ingredient in Scotch Woodcock is being discontinued, this page needs to be more widely known:
britishfoodhistory.com/2012/04/24/t...
Ah, right, it was down to an excess of Atlanticism. That makes perfect sense.
(More seriously, thanks! I had assumed it was something like that or solar cycles or something, but it's great to be told by somebody who knows.)
Any theories as to why Thatcher was so bad for Oxford's weather?
Britain won the Second Boer War. However, it did so at a surprising cost and exposed fundamental weaknesses in the image of imperial global hegemony. That emboldened Germany in its imperial and regional ambitions. The result of that ambition was the First World War.
It is striking how little media appetite or interest there has been for the Covid inquiry's conclusions
That's fine, I'm sure I've spent more than five months cumulative time on repeat watching of several episodes.
So are you popping in to try a quick half?
What F1 are very good at is delivering that engineering rapidly and on time in a competitive environment. Yes, it's boutique and expensive, but it's also not bogged down in multi-year requirements reviews.
Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.
The divide here between Cambridge/South Cambs and Fenland/Hunts/East Cambs/Peterborough is, in parts; hilarious, real and tragic. It means the Midlands/South border is between us and the next village.
I'm reminded of @jeremycliffe.bsky.social 's 2016 column - www.economist.com/britain/2016...
Macbeth: SHIT
They fit on shelves better than the tall ones?
One (potentially paranoid) thought - when Trump "insisted that control of the island was critical to America’s national security", does he mean it to be a locations for gulags for ICE? Aquired as new territory the regime could structure it with very little legal protection for prisoners held there.
David Threfall playing Lear? "We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage... there's nobody here but us chickens"
I see that King Lear is on the Royal Exchange this year. "Lear is a searing portrait of a king unable to distinguish truth from lies. As the storm rises and night falls, language, identity and meaning break down completely." www.royalexchange.co.uk/event/king-l...
From an Economist leader in August 2000
A serving set mocked up as a Turing test. Don't ask why.
These Tureen tests are getting crazy
A "turnip lantern" - a swede hollowed out and carved with a scary face, lit by an internal candle.
Thought I'd let the kids experience a proper turnip lantern this Halloween. Possibly not the best carving ever...
This was somewhat regional - Halloween was quite a significant childhood festival in (at least) the north of Scotland in the 1980s. However, the traditions were somewhat different, with children "guising" - wearing a costume and performing a party-piece (e.g. tell a joke) in return for treats.
Surely "Fiat Lux!"