ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 42 minutes ago:
Because 64% of adults are overweight or obese, with 26% being in the heavier classification. It’s costing the NHS £11 billion per year, and 13% of hospital admissions in 2023 were due to being overweight.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 49 minutes ago:
Not at all unenforcable. Just needs an RFID on the cup.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 9 hours ago:
A bill to phase out smoking is working through the parliamentary process at the moment. It will introduce a progressive ban so those aged 15 when it passes will never legally smoke, licencing for the sale of tobacco and vape products, and the power to ban smoking near hospitals and schools.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 9 hours ago:
Tackling a major health crisis?
- Comment on Defence ministry spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh 1 day ago:
Plaid Cymru’s education spokesperson Cefin Campbell MS said “not only is this a complete waste of money, it is an insult to our language”.
"I cannot think of any valid reason to be spending such money every year, on preventing young people living in Wales from having the opportunity to learn the Welsh language.
Does pretending to be a complete idiot really win the votes though?
- Comment on Founder of the Scandinavian thriller was a communist 1 day ago:
No-one’s perfect
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 4 days ago:
Israeli F35s can’t be refuelled by British tankers. They use a completely different system. If the Canary had fact-checked, they’d have realised the British tankers circling Doha were highly unlikely to be party to the Israeli attack on Qatar, as they were in fact participating in a joint exercise with… erm, Qatar.
It’s a pity, because they cover some stuff others don’t.
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 4 days ago:
Jumping in here, they’re fond of distorting the facts to make better outrage bait. They still take every opportunity to claim Palestine Action were targeting planes that were refuelling Israeli jets, the problem with that being the British refuelling system is incompatible with the one Israel uses.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 week ago:
The trains were nationalised by the Tory government in 2020, and they also abolished franchising later that year. They also began to set up Great British Railways in 2021.
Steel has not been nationalised. The government has taken over the funding of redundancy payments and retraining for the shut down private sector Tata furnaces in Port Talbot, and has taken steps to force the owners of British Steel to keep the idle furnaces in Scunthorpe burning.
There has also been no nationalisation in the energy sector. Great British Energy is set up as a way to subsidise projects created and run by the private sector and other public bodies. It will not generate, distribute or retail energy.
- Comment on Impossible 1 week ago:
She’s using a camera on her cell phone to boast about her ice cream on a newsgroup. Waxing upper lips has gone out of fashion but she’s self-conscious about it.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 1 week ago:
And to identify everyone at a protest for example…
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 1 week ago:
Yeah but it took voting in a Tory government to do it. A high price indeed.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 1 week ago:
Starmer has an absolute majority.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 1 week ago:
A more apt analogy would be an invite-only shop with a buzzer on the door, and the shopkeeper buzzing in the shoplifter having been told that this is Angus Strange, notorious thief, and he has brought with him a fast car and has no method of payment on his person other than a lead pipe.
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 1 week ago:
It also makes the ad time less valuable, and removes the income from affiliate licencing and retrans fees.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 1 week ago:
That certainly goes for normal practice, but there is also an element of ignoring the warning signs and the zookeepers, climbing in the cage with the lion, and being shocked when mauled. It’s not like they made a secret of their attitudes.
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 1 week ago:
Because affiliates pay the networks a few billion a year. But even more juicy is the cable and satellite retransmission fee, which is paid to the individual stations and then a share is passed up to the network. Retrans fees are worth around $20bn a year.
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 1 week ago:
Running a national version of ABC would cost them tens of billions annually, and anger their affiliates, who they depend on.
- Comment on Farage will roll back gun laws and turn Britain into Trump’s America, Ed Davey claims 1 week ago:
To increase the paranoia and fear
- Comment on Witness me brøther 2 weeks ago:
Named because it’s black and ear-shaped. This is not the smoking gun.
- Comment on UK: Chinese agents ‘given licence to spy’ on parliament as failure to prosecute suspects in Westminster spy case opens door to foreign agents, lawmaker warns 2 weeks ago:
The Speaker of the Commons has and wants nothing to do with the Lords
(Until the customary honours on stepping down)
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 weeks ago:
Trump’s only interested because he thinks it’s about gold.
- Comment on Who owns Britain? The effects of privatisation on the costs of living in the UK 2 weeks ago:
The railways were effectively nationalised in 2020. They’re just handing the contracts back at this point.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Cumberland sausages, steak and ale pie, apple pie, Yorkshire puddings, toad in the hole, curry, gin, whiskey, whisky, Guinness, IPA, Sunday roasts…
I pity the rest of the world.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 2 weeks ago:
Well Trump is American and they adhere to free speech to the point of insanity so nope there.
- Comment on The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much.
- Comment on The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician 3 weeks ago:
Journalists uncovered that he had misrepresented the facts when the Prime Minister chose to ask him specific details before appointing him.
- Comment on Elon Musk tells Tommy Robinson protest ‘violence is coming’ in call for change in UK government 3 weeks ago:
They’re putting huge amounts of money into breaking into British politics.
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 3 weeks ago:
It’s a licence not a tax
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 3 weeks ago:
Reform lead 12 councils, and have 881 councillors. Historically, it was the biggest party in the European Parliament after the 2019 election. It’s wishful thinking to carry on as if they’re a negligible factor.