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The skin of your fingertip.
Somehow, Welby returned.
Skynet
Ruh roh
It’s all going well - everything is fully-funded and ticking along nicely.
We did it for feddit.uk, worked out fine - the main hassle was contacting the AWOL Admin. Then it was a matter of starting the transfer of the image files and going off to do something Interesting.
And PieFed and Mbin are also sort of “Lemmy” (though neither in that graphic that I saw:-).
It is quite an old graphic.
He said the “bat shed” was his favourite example of the problems caused. The Bechstein’s bat was “generally pretty available in most of northern Europe, western Europe”, he said. “But nevertheless, under the Wildlife Act, 1981, it’s deemed to be a protected species in the UK, this bat, even though there’s lots of them.”
The bat is rare in the UK and deemed to be “vulnerable” in Europe, according to the IUCN conservation network’s red list.
He sounds like a bit of a prick trying to muddy the waters in an investigation into why the project went so over-budget under his watch.
History starts with the written word, it ends if Trump becomes president.
Catholic priests have entered the chat.
What would we call it? hallo-old-chum-you-fiend? my-good-friend-the-dishonourable-sir?
I say, that’s a bit much old thing!
In Labour’s election manifesto, Starmer said he would “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”.
But not on day one, they need to hire and train more people to process the claims - it’ll pay for itself. The Tories not doing so seemed like deliberately creating a problem they could then utilise for their own ends.
This seems sensible:
Hawkins added that there was some argument to support the use of gene editing to create species better able to resist diseases. “However, in most cases, diseases are preventable through good housing, husbandry and care and veterinary surveillance. Directly editing animal genomes should be seen as a last resort,” she said.
Also, rather than genetically modifying cows to produce less methane, perhaps we should eat less cows. It feels like saying we can keep burning coal because we’ll develop carbon capture and storage.
Username checks out.
It’s honestly embarrassing that FT even published this. Under a fucking £39 per month paywall too.
I feel we need a posh version of [email protected]
I think they are harming their argument by calling it “austerity” when the Budget is pumping money into hospitals and schools, starting to reverse the harm done by austerity. Yes I want them to go further but Corbyn did propose going further and lost the election. You have to be in power to enact change.
Labour haemorrhaging votes to progressive independents and Greens in their heartlands should be a lesson to this government: you are wrong to believe that progressive voters have nowhere else to go.
Here in Liverpool the Greens are second place to Labour in the majority of seats. I’d like them to win a few just to put Labour on notice that they can’t take vote for granted.
As long as there some movement on Northern Powerhouse Rail then we aren’t so arsed about HS2’s northern extension.
The price has stayed the same despite inflation, so it is relatively cheaper.
At a push, the first punch could be claimed to be self-defence but continuing after the other guy is on the ground is going to be difficult to explain.
Earthcrab
Health secretary Wes Streeting will vote against the assisted dying Bill, raising concerns that palliative care is not good enough for patients to make an informed choice on ending their life.
I suppose he’s right - if palliative care isn’t good enough it may force people to end their lives early. Sort that out and come back to this. I’m generally in favour of assisted dying but with the right safeguards and support, but the latter isn’t there right now.
Is he showing off how close to Trump he is or lying to force the Speaker’s hand?