blabyboy

People are always going to disagree in how something gets done, but I think it's the fact that something does get done which is important here. We have to walk the walk, if we are to have credibility in persuading others to change as well. If we have the target date then we have something to aim for and check against on the way to that date. If we don't, we drift, able to throttle back on schemes and projects as suits. Imo, successive governments like the big grandiose announcements of large projects which tend to fall away, when we could be fixing the things that have real world impact immediately like loft and cavity wall insulation, heat pump migration and having smart meters that are actually smart regardless of the supplier. These are things that tangible in the everyday to people. Fix the things that they can see and touch and you have them onboard for the larger ambitious stuff.

Large fire at NW Ldn electricity sub station. Up to 100 firefighters on scene https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2wvz4pjryo

They did publish, but then unpublished it, so it's out there, but not, if you weren't quick enough. One might say that the scientific method is being stymied by politics and funding removal at many institutions.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/a-grim-signal-atmospheric-co2-soared-in-2024/ A grim title and start but a positive sounding conclusion for a change.

The perp had already been deported in 2013, remind who was the US President in power at that time? The perp was up on domestic battery charges and a warrant issued for arrest. The judge arbitrarily decided to let him out of a side door whilst distracting several officers that were trying to enforce a warrant for arrest. Every case in law is judged on the merits of it's own particulars. Laws themselves are crafted without emotion. Stripping away the political inferences in the article and taking just the facts as expressed in that article, do you think the judge should have been arrested for aiding the escape of a wanted man?

Reading the article, the judge sure looks to have overstepped the law. Strip away the emotion of Dem Vs Rep and just apply the law leaves her with a lot of explaining to do

I disagree. It's a long game, I've always felt that Russia is the hare and Ukraine is the tortoise in this one.

Trump doesn't seem to understand that his EO's can all be reversed by the next President, immediately, in the same way he created them. If he made the changes via the Senate and Congress it would be a lot harder for the next President to undo whatever Act is passed.

Zelensky cannot constitutionally cede any Ukrainian land without the approval of parliament, so even if he did want to "do it for himself", he could not. Trump and Co. do not seem to understand this based on their current rhetoric tonight.

Possibly, but I also think events will just move this off the radar quite quickly. Today's newspaper headlines is tomorrow's fish and chip wrapping.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this year, due to proximity of Easter, St George's day is on the 28th April. Save your powder for then. 😉https://www.stgeorgesholiday.com/when-st-georges-day-2023/ for the religious zealots that is..

Amazing that proper background checks are not being conducted isn't it... And from the one establishment entity that you would hope should be rather good at it

Think you're a bit quick to be making that call. Why not try again in a week's time.

Jon... I'm sweating, thinking where those fingers have been...let me sniff after you

What Jon?..my secret? ..Oil of Ulay.