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- Comment on What are the new rules in Scotland's supermarkets? 15 hours ago:
Similar restrictions are already in place in England and Wales.
In England, price or multibuy promotions on unhealthy food and drink were banned in October 2025.
Wales followed in March, external when it brought in its rules preventing medium and large retailers promoting less healthy products.
Restrictions on advertising junk food, external across the UK were also introduced in January.
Before people get red with anger at the “SNP nanny state” or some such bollocks.
- Comment on 'Criminal' flag-raising causing alarm and distress, court told 2 days ago:
Except the flags are poorly put up pieces of shitty polyester.
We all know which country we’re in, we don’t need violence and plastic waste littering the streets to remind us.
It’s not patriotism, it’s brain dead virtue signaling. Patriotism would involve improving the lives of people in this country, this achieves nothing but make the place worse.
- Comment on Get 8 out of every 24 2 days ago:
This must be Pippin’s Lemmy account
- Comment on Firm fined £24,000 over worker crushed in conveyor 2 days ago:
But only £24k for negligence resulting in death.
[Opens as PDF] …company-information.service.gov.uk/…/document?fo…
- Comment on Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts' 3 days ago:
One imperial force trying to dismantle another imperial force doesn’t mean that that dismantling is bad.
- Comment on Russian foreign minister questions 'what will become of UK' and future of 'the Celts' 3 days ago:
The BBC trying to tarnish the legitimacy of the independence movements I see, by implying some untoward connection to Russia.
They’re either fools being played by Lavrov or, as is more likely the case considering their history, they’re actively trying to influence politics on behalf of Westminster and getting in the way of democracy.
- Comment on ‘We have to bring the benefits bill down’: Healey signals return to welfare reform 4 days ago:
In tiny writing too, as if they themselves are embarrassed by it.
- Comment on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK 4 days ago:
To be honest I have no idea if it’s relevant to public charging stations or not. Hopefully somebody else can chime in with that info.
- Comment on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK 4 days ago:
the maximum amount a supplier can charge for a unit of energy and standing charge, set by the regulator Ofgem every three months
Electricity is sold at a price per day (the standing charge), even if you use no electricity you pay this, plus whatever you use in kWh. For example: £0.55 per day standing charge, plus whatever you use at £0.25 per kWh.
You can get a fixed contract, meaning you know exactly what you’re paying for the next 6-12 months. The standing charge and unit rate are agreed and don’t change. However, suppliers forecast what the prices will be in that time and set their prices accordingly so they still make a profit.
Or, you can be on the variable rate. This price fluctuates based upon the cost of energy at the time, and can be very volatile depending upon world events at the time.
The domestic cap is a limit that the state imposes upon the variable rate, supposedly to dampen volatility, prevent price gouging, and ensure energy remains affordable to consumers.
The cap is reviewed every 3 months and is almost guaranteed to go up every 3 months.
- Comment on Without a marker... 6 days ago:
- Comment on He escaped 6 days ago:
The state need not kill those that are killing themselves
Don’t make it an easy job for them
The killing of kids with two pound chicken and chips
Is a tactic of war, waged on the poor
Can’t save wages on slave wages
And you don’t think fresh fruit with your face on the floor
Nah, you need money for the kids
Rent and light plus food in the fridge
But that last box can be the hardest tick
Cos scraps will suffice but they might make you sick
As a child I used to chow takeout
24 hours later skin breakout
Felt so heavy with it sitting in my belly
Desert was a sugar-coated candy filled jelly
Fam that’s pig meat
Mashing up the kidney
Make sure no government has to kill me
I was killing myself till I realised danger
Brain, heart, liver and lungs can hit failure
Now season dahl and veg with fresh herbs
Cut caffeine because it messed with nerves
Plenty lentils and chickpea curry
20 minute meal for a man in a hurry
That’s real fast food that won’t break the bank
With enough nutrients to fill the tank
Drink water for the body’s natural power
But water from taps can taste sour
Food deserts are designed to starve us
No fresh produce but we got Starbucks
Calories packed in treats to enlarge us
May not see the effect but the heart does
Can’t breathe can’t sleep can’t run
Casomorphin wreaks havoc on the lungs
Just like fizzy wreaks havoc on the gums
And my old man said diabetes ain’t fun
Ginger root is good for the youts
Blend it up and share a fresh juice
Burn sage, cleanse the room
Body is a temple, don’t let it be a tomb
The food you choose to consume can damage
Processed meats intestines can’t manage
Cattle farming still killing off the planet
And it tells us everyday that it can’t stand it
Earth getting hotter while the sea levels rise
All because you want burger with those fries
All because you want milkshake with the meal
Then to combat diarrhoea you take pills
What’s the deal?
Eat right, stay active, stay strong
Cause the revolution is real
Never know when a man might have to dash
And a pig can’t kill what a pig can’t catch
It’s more than just eating right, it’s survival
Rasta man tell the youts to eat ital
Daily exercise, fresh air is vital
Whether you short walk, run or take cycle
Meditate to live life and love it
Plus stress increases acid in stomachs
Read and chill to keep the mental covered
And when you find struggle you try rise above it
I find peace in the books on the shelf
Food on the stove while it cooks I can smell
It’s gonna be good by the looks I can tell
When it won’t put my body through hell, well
Well, I want strength like Phelps
Good practices and discipline helps
It’s not for the 6 pack I do it for myself
Cos it’s true what they say your health is wealth
(Instrumental)
Oh by the way
Remember you’re a gift to yourself
And a gift to your environment
Continue to be that beautiful gift
Share that gift in your food and all your gastronomic mastery
But also, and more importantly:
It is very necessary that you get this straight. Most people have very confused notions about revolution. To them it means just fighting, smashing things, destroying. It is the same as if rolling up your sleeves for work should be considered as the work itself that you have to do. The fighting part of revolution is merely the rolling up of your sleeves. The real, actual task is ahead.
What is that task?
“The destruction of the existing conditions,” you reply.
True. But conditions are not destroyed by breaking and smashing things. You can’t destroy wage slavery by wrecking the machinery in mills and factories, can you? You won’t destroy government by setting fire to the White House.
To think of revolution in terms of violence and destruction is to misinterpret and falsify the whole idea of it. In practical application such a conception is bound to lead to disastrous results.
When a great thinker, like the famous Anarchist Bakunin, speaks of revolution as destruction, he has in mind the ideas of authority and obedience which are to be destroyed. It is for this reason that he said that destruction means construction, for to destroy a false belief is indeed most constructive work.
But the average man, and too often even the revolutionist, thoughtlessly talks of revolution as being exclusively destructive in the physical sense of the word. That is a wrong and dangerous view. The sooner we get rid of it the better.
Revolution, and particularly the social revolution, is not destruction but construction. This cannot be sufficiently emphasized, and unless we clearly realize it, revolution will remain only destructive and thereby always a failure. Naturally revolution is accompanied by violence, but you might as well say that building a new house in place of an old one is destructive because you have first to tear down the old one. Revolution is the culminating point of a certain evolutionary process: it begins with a violent upheaval. It is the rolling up of your sleeves preparatory to starting the actual work.
Indeed, consider what the social revolution is to do, what it is to accomplish, and you will perceive that it comes not to destroy but to build.
What, really, is there to destroy?
The wealth of the rich? Nay, that is something we want the whole of society to enjoy.
The land, the fields, the coal mines, the railroads, factories, mills, and shops? These we want not to destroy but to make useful to the entire people.
The telegraphs, telephones, the means of communication and distribution — do we want to destroy them? No, we want them to serve the needs of all.
What, then, is the social revolution to destroy? It is to take over things for the general benefit, not to destroy them. It is to reorganize conditions for the public welfare.
Not to destroy is the aim of the revolution, but to reconstruct and rebuild.
It is for this that preparation is needed, because the social revolution is not the Biblical Messiah who is to accomplish his mission by simple edict or order. Revolution works with the hands and brains of men. And these have to understand the objects of the revolution so as to be able to carry them out. They will have to know what they want and how to achieve it. The way to achieve it will be pointed by the objects to be attained. For the end determines the means, just as you have to sow a particular seed to grow the thing you need.
What, then, must the preparation for the social revolution be?
If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow-men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice coöperation. The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cultivated, to be nurtured and reared, as the most delicate flower is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beautiful existence.
Do not dupe yourself with the silly notion that “things will arrange themselves.” Nothing ever arranges itself, least of all in human relations. It is men who do the arranging, and they do it according to their attitude and understanding of things.
From Now and After by Alexander Berkman, Chapter 26: Preparation.
Available to read, or download in multiple formats, for free, here: theanarchistlibrary.org/…/alexander-berkman-what-…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Wrong link. The headline for this article is:
Worker at care home in BBC investigation faces being struck off
- Comment on Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard 1 week ago:
Activist?
- Comment on [Video] PM Andy Burnham: "We stand with Israel in the face of the ongoing threats, including from Iran, against Israel and Jewish people around the world." 1 week ago:
Imgur is not accessible in the UK.
- Comment on Museums warn against charges for overseas tourists 1 week ago:
Have to disagree with your disagreement on this one.
This just degrades our museums to gatekeeping culture to only those with means.
Admittedly, having to carry around ID constantly on the off chance that you fancy a visit to a museum, and having your visit logged by way of your ID, sounds dystopian as fuck in an increasingly dystopian world. All students of life must always have free access.
- Comment on Museums warn against charges for overseas tourists 1 week ago:
So not only do we hoard the world’s stolen riches and culture in our museums, but now the plan is to charge the people who these pieces potentially descend from to even see them? Greeks paying to see their own marbles. Egyptians paying to see their own mummies.
When are Labour going to change their name to Capital?
- Comment on Feeling ‘forced out’ by Badenoch? Lib Dems conference welcomes young Tory defectors 1 week ago:
I can help explain. The Lib Dems have no principles and don’t really stand for anything.
- Comment on Parents in England and Wales could be fined or jailed for child’s crimes, minister says 1 week ago:
Not criminally. If my kid stoves someone’s head in in a fit of uncontrolled rage why am I then criminally liable for their actions?
This is a very good show that covers how you can raise a kid well, to the best of your ability, and they still commit horrific crimes. Why would the parents be liable for punishment in such a scenario?
- Comment on ‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home 1 week ago:
The Swedish government:
- Comment on Parents in England and Wales could be fined or jailed for child’s crimes, minister says 1 week ago:
Kin punishment is the practice of punishing the family members of someone who is accused or suspected of committing a crime, either in place of or in addition to the perpetrator of the crime. It refers to the principle in which a family shares responsibility for a crime which is committed by one of its members, and it is a form of collective punishment. Kin punishment has been used as a form of extortion, harassment, and persecution by authoritarian and totalitarian states. Kin punishment has historically been practiced in China, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and is presently practiced in Israel and North Korea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_punishment
Because individuals who are not responsible for the acts are targeted, collective punishment is not compatible with the basic principle of individual responsibility. The punished group may often have no direct association with the perpetrator other than living in the same area and can not be assumed to exercise control over the perpetrator’s actions. Collective punishment is prohibited by treaty in both international and/or non-international armed conflicts, more specifically Common Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and Article 4 of the Additional Protocol II.[1][2]
- Comment on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? 2 weeks ago:
The UK’s most senior soldier has sounded the alarm. The Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton this week said the threat from Russia meant Britain was living through the “most dangerous” period of his 35-year career in the armed forces.
Aye, the Richard Knighton that uses ChatGPT, CoPilot and gambling websites to determine his views?
Forgive me if I’m not too worried about the supposed Russian threat. The threat that has been spun and beaten since the early to mid 1900s.
If Russia were such a threat why do we keep reading that they’re emptying prisons, changing recruitment ages, and near economic collapse to sustain their conscription and invasion of Ukraine?
The UK is in NATO and European defense agreements. This chief of defense is naught but a war hawk drumming up fear in order to gain money and/or power for him and his military industry mates.
- Comment on ‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretary 2 weeks ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Amazon to launch Ring ‘neighbourhood watch’ app in UK amid US privacy fears 2 weeks ago:
This article reads more like an advert / marketing piece than journalism worth a damn. Very little critique and critical thinking. Just explanation, near verbatim from Amazon, of what is being released.
Who are you watching
And what are you watching them for
The signs on your lampposts
Say more about you than the crimes you abhorYour curtains twitch
Spy on the neighbourhood witch
It’s all a front
For a neighbourhood witch huntWatching the neighbours
Or are the neighbours watching you
It starts with surveillance
Until they turn informer too - Comment on Prolific shoplifters behind more than 28,000 offences, BBC finds 2 weeks ago:
Won’t somebody please think of the highly profitable supermarkets that exploit their own workers and farmers alike?!
- Comment on Man who vandalised Churchill statue in Parliament Square found not guilty of criminal damage 2 weeks ago:
The foreign activist
🎯 IMPACT: The case highlights the increasing difficulty of securing convictions in high-diversity, left-leaning areas, even when the evidence is overwhelming.
Not just slop, but clearly bias slop too.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Sponsor: Liberal Democrats
Hmm… Which powerful Liberal Democrats could potentially have had an influence in this and has an interest in entrenched corporate social media?
- Comment on Police officer who put suspect in headlock and punched him 9 times faces misconduct hearing 2 weeks ago:
More importantly, and disappointingly:
He was cleared of assault and intentional strangulation following a seven-day trial in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, in 2025.
- Comment on Life 3 weeks ago:
No it isn’t.
- Comment on Life 3 weeks ago:
No it isn’t.
- Comment on UK ministers explore raising price of water for industrial users amid shortages 3 weeks ago:
FFS MAKE WATER A PUBLIC UTILITY OWNED BY THE PUBLIC, RUN FOR THE PUBLIC, WITHOUT A PROFIT INCENTIVE
