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Shall we have a handful of good news stories that nobody in the media is talking about? Not as big as wars etc, but sometimes small things at least show what matters to those in charge: - the government has set up a £10m fund to support families with the cost of travel to and from the 13 specialist child cancer treatment centres across the UK - GB energy has already installed solar panels on 100 schools, with another 150 expected by the summer, saving approximately £220m from the combined energy bills of those schools over the lifetime of the panels. - rail fares have been frozen for the first time since the 1990s. - junk food adverts banned before 9pm - 2025 showed a 10 year high in household solar panel installation. We even had a species previously considered locally extinct return to the UK!

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/weather/heat-wave-west-records-climate-change Record heat for time off year expected across the US - summer like temperatures in march.

Very revealing who the landlords here are and the arguments they're using imo. Won't somebody think of the poor starving landlords.

I said less landlords creates less demand at the bottom end of the housing market allowing would-be buyers to actually own instead of rent. Landlords aren't doing a public service by housing tenants. They're the cause of many of those tenants not being able to buy.

Then do that. You presumably got into it for a profit, follow the money.

That's the difference between a business brain and stupidity though in fairness. If nearly 3m people hadn't decided to treat housing as investments rather than homes, expecting easy profits, we'd be in a much better place as a country.

There's zero risk. Any landlord using the rent to pay off a mortgage isn't losing money. They're getting a house paid for. Maybe that doesn't apply to you and there's no mortgage. I say this, I repeat, as a current wishing-i-wasn't landlord.

As it stands, I'm currently a landlord for a short period. But I recognise that landlordism is a poison for our housing market that has led to the bottom end being flooded with landlords buying everything, increasing demand and therefore prices. We need less landlords - there are 2.75 million in the UK, imagine the effect of that on prices - and more realistic house prices. Corporate landlordism should be banned. I'll be getting out of it solely because I don't believe in it but there wasn't much way around it with our specific circumstances. Landlords also moan continually about the lack of money in it. Rubbish. Somebody else literally buys the house for you by paying the mortgage. It's free money. Yep some landlords complain they have costs associated to this free money.

No offence my man, slightly tongue in cheek comment. I've been a lurker here for years before joining and the back 3 had been a regular refrain since MON, no matter the personnel we have available. I just find it a bit of a boring Leicester fans fetish! In seriousness I don't think we have the players for it and we'd end up with an even more limited attack.

There needs to be a rule on FT that anybody suggesting a back 3 is automatically banned for a month.

https://www.installeronline.co.uk/electric/government-gives-green-light-to-plug-in-solar/ Simple, plug in solar to become a thing in the UK as it is in Europe. If priced sensibly this could be a very good thing.

We've not had a good recruitment lead since macia. We should have made macia dof instead of letting him go to Bordeaux

Every time I think we might be okay we throw in another awful performance. 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses from the last 6 isn't too bad for a team at the bottom end but it's that inability to take enough belief from a win to look good in the next game that bothers me. Really don't know where we're landing ATM. It's not as hopeless as last year but it is pretty awful.

You could save a bit by combining HR, payroll etc teams across the NHS, but only a bit. And if you are trying to get the best results you'd end up spending more than you've saved as the system is hopelessly underfunded thanks to austerity. While the budget has gone up, demand has far outstripped it thanks to an aging population. (We an aside, it's almost funny how it's actually old people living longer with more chronic and complex care needs that is really putting the NHS under pressure, yet those same old people think their one shilling a week NI paid for everything they get and it's the immigrants running the NHS that are to blame)

Literally everything he's done foreign policy wise has been to try and grab oil and minerals from across the globe. He's taking them from Ukraine, wanted them from Greenland, oil from Venezuela....

Presumably it's tactical. Daka chases balls. Ayew takes them to feet. If we're trying to get runners beyond the forward Ayew makes sense, and we did seem to have people moving forwards last match.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/blackwater-lakes-and-rivers-in-the-congo-basin-are-now-emitting-ancient-carbon-into-the-atmosphere Peatlands in Africa were thought to be carbon sinks but they're now emitting carbon. A tipping point may have been reached for carbon saturation.

BBC News - Austrian glaciers disintegrating due to climate change, say scientists https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd038pgrr1yo

The other utterly ridiculous thing is guaranteeing certain prices to companies helping build energy capacity. This is precisely why private sector input into assets that should be publicly owned is such a terrible idea. Everything has to be incentivised to get them to do anything. Socialism for corporations, if you will.

Not sure that's an unpopular opinion tbh. How's he's still at the club given the journey we've had I've no idea

Jordan James £5m clause was a great deal

"beyond the obvious" I don't know why we're conflating the general malaise at the club we're all annoyed with, and an individual transfer which isn't really necessarily a bad deal in the circumstances. It would be nice to not always have to bang on about rudkin when it's obvious he's shit.

I don't really see the link between questions about this transfer and protests about the club leadership, beyond the obvious. In terms of the price we get in not sure on what basis you're complaining? We bought the lad as one of Europe's top prospects. After a year of delivering not much he's not held in such high esteem, hence him ending up at stutgart. This idea we should hold out for more money is bonkers, current leadership and league position or not. The nonsense about fans accepting where we are etc is a load of guff btw.

I always think this week walking through crowds. Is it only me moving left or right out the way? Does everybody else just crash headlong into each other like a giant mosh pit?

Each to their own. I think we're all angry about where we are, but it's just not healthy - certainly for me - to dwell on what could or should be. I need to deal in reality, where we are. But we're all different, just my way.