@ab11dda5 people can’t expect any progress from their councils in terms of service unless they pay. There is nothing left to trim, they are threadbare and going bust because they are making desperate stupidly dangerous investment decisions (Tory run ones) and being forced into using cut price useless private services (Labour run ones). Politicians of every stripe promising more for less is crippling this country.
Let’s not get too excited about Labour’s victory in Scottish by-election…they did it by behaving just like the Tories. Is this honestly a taste of what is to come?
‘This time, Labour ran its campaign attacking the SNP for allowing councils to raise council tax rates, for a planned congestion charge mooted by SNP councillors to enter neighbouring Glasgow (ignoring the implicit rejection of Labour’s support for London’s congestion charge), and for suggestions income tax might go up again.’
Intuition. Do you believe in it? Do you have it? Do you act on it?
I think intuition is something I felt I had in my late teens and 20’s. I made a lot of big life decisions around then quickly but with a sense of certainty. Most of the calls I think I got right.
These days I often repress my intuition because there are lots of other people I need to consider. But it is still there.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/01/should-you-trust-your-sixth-sense-the-power-of-intuition
Found myself at my old stomping ground of UEA today…it’s been through some tough times of late, but there is something still magical, sparky and just different about the place that I always enjoyed!
Alt Text: pictures of Sainsbury Centre with outdoor sculptures of metallic dogs and skew whiff helter skelter; ziggurats with rectangular sculpture in front of and sculpture of a massive head in front of oak trees.
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@f42fdd5b could be that when you go up a ‘flight of stairs’ when you reach the top and stop you have ‘landed’, hence area called ‘landing’.
Sounds very modern if we think of it in relation to planes, but actually birds have been around longer than two storey houses!
Jon Sopel from Newsagents podcast posted this on X:
‘Multiculturalism has failed’ says Suella Braverman who is from Kenyan and Mauritian background and married to a Jew, serving as Home Secretary in a govt led by someone whose family came from India.
Wonder what multicultural success looks like…..’
There is a reason #Braverman remains in post and gets away with her constant xenophobia and homophobia and it’s not down to her legal or political talents.
Adrian Ramsey, co-leader of Green Party has the courage to call for #Braverman’s sacking on the basis of her abhorrent speech about UN Convention of Refugees today:
“This is a horrifying speech from a British home secretary that would not be out of place on a far-right conspiracy website. It is language straight out of the gutter that should have no place in a fair and compassionate society.
The prime minister should have the decency and moral courage to sack the home secretary now.”
@43d7c4ea this article very much focuses on the wonders of technology and research, but beyond these bald statistics in the opening lines there is little to explain and spell out to the reader just how much methane leaks are driving global warming:
‘Methane has 28 times the heating potential of CO2. It is responsible for about 30% of the rise in global temperatures.’
Academics working on grants spotting dangers that private industry already know exist, but aren’t revealing to us.
CEO’s sexual preferences really shouldn’t be used by oil giants to depose them and row back on climate targets
‘Looney was the last of a generation of BP managers to be mentored by the former chief executive John Browne, who also promised bold steps towards a clean energy transition at the start of the century. He too was forced to quit after admitting he had lied to court about a relationship. After this, BP delayed climate action and increased its cash-cow business of hydrocarbon extraction.’
@2307797a I have personally had a major change of heart over garden gnomes and goblins in the past year. I was indifferent, now I think they are the umami of garden design - you can’t quite describe what it is that they add, but the garden is definitely improved by their presence…it’s very hot here too!
@3967703f I am not comfortable with how often I hear my kid’s teachers use the word resilience….and consequently how often I hear my own kids use the word. It’s not a concept that brings about compassion or encouragement to speak out when things are wrong.
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