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IT specialist, uk government insider, golfer (player and level 3 rules official) and retired NHS Community First Responder.
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I have not bult the houses that were in the manifesto and which you were probably saving to move into Forgive me there were NIMBIES so many and so organised
Andy Burnham’s government has privately given up on reaching Labour’s target of building 1.5mn new homes by 2029, and ministers will refer to the goal less and less, according to government figures www.ft.com/content/285a...
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Worth monitoring, electronic communications are increasingly looking like the wide west.
Luxembourg is rolling out a secure encrypted messaging service based on the open source Matrix protocol, for use by government, businesses and citizens, offering a sovereign alternative to WhatsApp and Signal... 👉 [read]
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Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.
“Healey should remove anxiety and depression as a reason to claim benefits and offer people treatment instead. It would be better for the individuals and a fraction of the cost.” Read more: trib.al/cxsKwxw
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The BBC did indeed credit Melania with the peace treaty - omitting the ‘the White House said’ aspect that was a crucial element of the story. By the time it’s corrected, the idiots will have moved on, whilst still drooling at the thought of her naked and available for their solitary pleasure.….
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If you want to see in a nutshell the problem I keep raising then it's in the replies to this thread Brexiters have a very focused pitch - out, out, out Joiners are completely at odds on why, how and when And they end up bickering A politician needs to lead and focus a Join campaign
This is very interesting and pro- Europeans should read it carefully.
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Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier... 👉 [read]
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Same here, I’ll bet you have the underfloor heating flushed every few years. When we had a traditional boiler the engineer, a friend, also emphasised the importance of flushing the system.
*Whispers*.. our heatpump is purring away outside and the house is a steady and very comfy 21C. Haven't touched it for over a year....
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some of the hysteria here seems to ignore the fact that this is *optional*? if it looks like it will damage local tourism, mayors can just... not do it! they can change their minds!
Legislation will be tabled in weeks to allow overnight visitor levies, despite fierce opposition from the hospitality sector and some local councils
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I just assume that business lobby groups are lying when they drum up worst-case figures to oppose new policies. Like the private school lobby wildly inflating the number of pupils who would leave due to VAT on fees
I'm sorry, but this is such bollocks. Are they seriously suggesting *a quarter* of all tourists would not visit the UK because of a tax which nearly every other European country (not to mention nearly every US state) has? Give over...
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Seatbelts -> fewer road deaths Smoking bans in public places -> an all round good Medical research esp cancer & HIV -> extending/saving lives Vaccines -> miraculous science Safety rules on building/construction -> far fewer injuries/harm
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
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6/ Russian forces struck Kyiv City with cluster munitions to purposely harm the civilian population, likely as part of wider Russian efforts to distract from Ukraine’s recent battlefield successes and ultimately force Ukraine into capitulation by making daily life untenable.
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Getting worse, I’ve noticed that the web hosting services I use are relying more on people. Not surprising, the AI agents were, from a users perspective, both time consuming and inaccurate. The self awareness, being customers understanding what AI screws up.
Before everyone gets too excited by AI becoming self-aware let's just bear in mind that my Google spellcheck still has no idea which word I am trying to type here
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I think a lot of people are turning to LLMs for things like recipes. And they're right enough, enough of the time, that the problems aren't terribly obvious to people. (Thus building more reliance on a smaller lane of information transfer & creating, like Google before, an ideal advert channel).
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Just checked and of course, the last time there was a Commons vote on this back in 2018, Badenoch voted against the proposals to decant and get on with the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, as the cross-party joint commission had strongly recommended.
There's obviously a serious point here, but it's quite funny optics for the Conservative party to complain that it used to be so much quicker to build a stately home.
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Daniel Zeichner MP: The idea that leaving the EU would free us from the need to deal with our neighbours was fanciful. Brexit simply took away the institutions through which we had spent decades working together. https://www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/daniel-zeichner-brexit-honest-debate-rejoining-eu/
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Repeat after me: 1) PIP isn't an out of work benefit. It is a benefit paid to disabled people to pay for the extra costs of living with a disability. 2) Some PIP claimants work. Some PIP claimants will never able to work at all. 3) Impoverishing people doesn't get them closer to employment
PIP claimants under 25 should lose benefits cash if they turn down work, voters say trib.al/DnSGWCV
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