#uk#politics (repost from @rahmstorf with proper # - this needs max exposure)
„A firm founded by Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law signed a billion-dollar deal with BP two months before the prime minister opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.“
Robins sing nearly all year round and despite their cute appearance, they are aggressively territorial and are quick to drive away intruders. They will sing at night next to street lights.
"The #UK is pulling out of a treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over their #climate policies.
The [#EnergyCharterTreaty] allows fossil fuel investors to sue states for lost profit expectations in an opaque corporate arbitration system set up to protect fossil fuel investors in the former Soviet economies in the 1990s."
🆕 blog! “Minority Governments and the Boundary Commission”
The UK is almost certain to have a General Election this year1. The Boundary Commission for England2 has reworked the existing Parliamentary constituencies to make them more fair3. As such, constituencies are generally more equal in terms of electorate. But, of course, geography trumps g…
The amount of kids, all boys, in emergency room for head concussions from playing sports – it's scary. Mostly rugby. Why isn't this sport banned in schools yet? The long-term brain damage is well documented.
you know what i was just thinking about? programming syntax and international developers. Between PHP and jQuery, how do european and british developers deal with the $ symbol? I imagine the $ is not directly on your region-specific keyboard. Does your IDE map the € or £ to the $ when you code? Do you just use second keyboard with a US layout? You’ve gotta use the $ symbol hundreds of times a day, so it needs to be easy
Alternate Headline that would actually deserve to be on a Canadian top-news page:
“Kate Photo Scandal another reason Canada should divorce itself from this circus”.
I mean, for the love of god, WHO CARES.
They Don't Live Here.
None of them have any impact on our day to day lives.
They aren't even Canadian Citizens.
It's just gossip. That's all it's good for. Stupid, meaningless, gossip.
Wow. Mid Beds goes Labour. That's how far from the left Labour now are. Incredible.
Used to be that you could've selected a paper bag as prospective Tory candidate for mid Beds and it'd win the seat comfortably. #UK#politics
Poor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices – but farmers have seen no benefit. Around the world this holiday weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies, as part of an annual chocolate intake that can exceed 8kg (18lb) for every person in the UK, or 5kg...
This is simply insane ... literally! They continue to supply arms to Israel, which enables it to continue killing and starving Palestinians - then do this nonsense with a pier, rather than pressuring for existing entries to be opened. I question the sanity of the leadership of the US and UK.
Around 27% of respondents blamed the Islamic State (ISIS), while another 6% pointed to the U.S., U.K., and NATO, according to a survey by OpenMinds, an Anglo-Ukrainian online pollster.
Marius Gustavson, 46, was involved in procedures that were ‘little short of human butchery’, UK court heard. The leader of a “grisly and gruesome” extreme body modification network who streamed mutilations on his “eunuch maker” website has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years....
Brexit has failed - we must now return to the centre of Europe, Lord Heseltine says (www.independent.co.uk)
Lord Heseltine said it is time to stop ‘hiding from the damage’ caused by Brexit
Cameron urges US to aid Ukraine and not show ‘weakness displayed to Hitler’ (www.theguardian.com)
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Cameron to ‘kiss my ass’ in response to request to pass aid package
Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’ (www.theguardian.com)
Poor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices – but farmers have seen no benefit. Around the world this holiday weekend, people will consume hundreds of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies, as part of an annual chocolate intake that can exceed 8kg (18lb) for every person in the UK, or 5kg...
FT: Over 50% of Russians blame Ukraine for Moscow terrorist attack, survey shows (kyivindependent.com)
Around 27% of respondents blamed the Islamic State (ISIS), while another 6% pointed to the U.S., U.K., and NATO, according to a survey by OpenMinds, an Anglo-Ukrainian online pollster.
Man known as ‘eunuch maker’ who streamed mutilations is jailed for life (www.theguardian.com)
Marius Gustavson, 46, was involved in procedures that were ‘little short of human butchery’, UK court heard. The leader of a “grisly and gruesome” extreme body modification network who streamed mutilations on his “eunuch maker” website has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years....