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- Comment on UK Intel Warns Politicians of China and Russia Spying Efforts 4 days ago:
Says a lot about the state of our politicians that they have to be reminded or warned that these are going on but surely this has always happened, although now maybe it’s easier because of instant communications and the internet. I am sure we are doing the same to them in these countries too! It’s such a shame we all waste so much time trying to compete with each other rather than working together on global issues
- Comment on UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show 1 week ago:
For fucks sake, what is wrong with them! Surely this would be a GDPR breach at the very least
- Comment on UK: If it looks, sounds and behaves like an enemy, why are we calling China a ‘challenge’? -- [Opinion] 1 week ago:
I am more concerned about technology connections with Israel, Russian money / property, India’s ethno-national activities, and the close links with the USA in all areas. I don’t want any of these regimes or China but why single China out in particular. USA is top of my list to decouple from.
- Comment on UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home 2 weeks ago:
Makes me like them more! Sometimes you just got to be online and if the management just require presenteeism then you get this. If theres good management that require output but realise we are humans who sometimes need to chill out for a time, this isn’t an issue. If they’re doing this all the time so there’s no output, that’s on the management really. In the office it would be tea breaks, chatting to colleagues, the general chat at the start or end of meetings, going for breaks, etc
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 3 weeks ago:
Great news!
Our response should be to negotiate on copyright / trademark laws or whatever allows their fake monopolies then. If you don’t sell it at a reasonable cost we’ll allow others to make it for us as genetics
- Comment on More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters 3 weeks ago:
How is this not terrorism? If a Muslim group did this to anywhere their group would be shut down so fast…
- Comment on General Medical Council examines doctor’s Reform speech linking vaccines to royal family cancer 5 weeks ago:
Hope they strip him of his licence. I’m not a doctor but an part of a regulatory body. If I said something out of line with most guidance and other people, I’d have to have pretty strong evidence backed up by at least one but sometimes two independent reviewers. If it was just a hunch I’d be stripped of my title so fast. This is in a field which does not directly impact peoples health or risk to life so really hope they throw the book at him
- Comment on UK banks face lawsuits over mortgages that left people with huge debts 5 weeks ago:
I’m against most of the activity banks do or did but was this really unfair given they had to take legal advice and were advised it’s an unusual product they chose to take? They got money for nothing, no repayments and they’ve benefited from a substantial house price increase regardless. The bank is taking their share of that increase but they still get 25% of the increase plus use of that original 25% cash payment for years with no repayment. I mean, considering how hard it is to get a house now, I don’t have much sympathy here
- Comment on The correct way 5 weeks ago:
According to flaginstitute.org/…/Flying_Flags_in_the_United_Ki…:
Union Flag - If hung horizontally or vertically, the broad white diagonal should be uppermost in the top-left corner.
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- Comment on Today marks the beginning of His Majesty's fourth year on the throne. May His Majesty have many many more! God save the King! 5 weeks ago:
Also, thank you to Sir Keir Starmer for one year as our PM, 9 years as an MP and many years as a civil servant, tirelessly representing the British public’s interests. We may not all agree with the politics and decisions made but it’s clear how many hours you must spend working so hard for our country. Rule Britannia!
- Comment on Massive disparity in availability of allotments across UK, analysis reveals 1 month ago:
I’m not sure about allotments, they don’t seem to work that well to me but it’s just anecdotal knowledge. My dad started sharing one two years ago so I went around a few times. More than half the plots were completely unused. A few plots were very used but felt like a private place to escape. I looked up the waiting list and it was over 60. They said if you don’t use them you lose them but it didn’t seem to be enforced at all. Anybody not involved in an existing one was not allowed or welcome in.
Surely it would be better to have lots of community gardens run by the same people who have the allotments but where anybody can take part and local people are encouraged to help. Get school groups involved. I appreciate it’s a lot of effort but otherwise, does it really matter.
- Comment on Looking to get a new phone with FOSS on it. What should I look into? 1 month ago:
I got a fairphone 5 earlier this year and am very happy with it. There is a version with /e/os installed but it was out of stock so I bought the android and it was really easy to install /e/os myself with no technical knowledge needed. I use f-droid for as many apps as possible. It has a version of play store (app lounge) for other apps, most of which have worked. For the odd one that didn’t, I’ve just added a shortcut to the mobile website for quick access. Theres no google pay but I can use the curve app fine with NFC so can even buy stuff, something I didn’t expect to be able to do.
- Comment on Reform UK selects candidate who was previously exposed for anti-Muslim social media posts 2 months ago:
Interesting, need to look more at him, thanks for sharing
- Comment on Reform UK selects candidate who was previously exposed for anti-Muslim social media posts 2 months ago:
What is or will be the difference between them and the green party?
- Comment on Two UK pro-Palestine organisations have bank accounts frozen 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, it’ll be like when Nigel Farage had his account closed, there will be a lot of outrage and they’ll get them back. They are not a PEP, have no links to Russian money, or anything questionable about “consulting” gigs so it’s an easy fix right …
- Comment on Has anyone ever read the book series “Biff, Chip & Kipper” as a kid? 3 months ago:
I bought a set over a year ago for my son, then the school library also seems to have them (they pick a book a week)
- Comment on British overseas territories miss final deadline to crack down on ‘dirty money’ 3 months ago:
If they truly cared about dirty money, tax evasion and all the tricks the rich do to keep their wealth, the tax regimes in these places would mirror the tax regime for working people in the UK (and tax capital gains in the same way as employment income BTW!).
It’s pathetic complaining about these places not doing such a minor thing after decades of using them to hide their wealth, please their wealthy overlords and/or evade taxes…
- Comment on One-stop family hubs to be opened in all English council areas 3 months ago:
Finally, some good news for once and progress!
- Comment on UK media are covering up British spy flights for Israel 3 months ago:
Do you reckon Israel/Mossad has some proper dirt over the UK, is it the City’s financial interests or something else? It’s just shocking that we continue to support a genocide despite it clearly being opposite to what the majority of us want.
- Comment on BBC News - BBC senior staff told to 'step back' from duties following row 3 months ago:
I could only watch 25 minutes (so far) of the doctors in Gaza documentary the BBC refused to show, because I cried at least three times. The multiple children being carried to try to get help with serious looking injuries. The solar panels being destroyed which meant premature children died. The blood soaked floor around the ambulance. The absolute pain of the doctor talking about when a nurse brought in his daughter who was killed. The people watching the bombing of Gaza through those fucking telescope things you get at the beach or from tall buildings like it’s a tourist attraction. The guys being stripped naked, blindfolded and led about in a stadium.
An artist said a few words at a concert that is crazily expensive to go to, which doesn’t even meet the threshold of hate speech (in my view).
Where should we focus our attention and outrage I wonder?!?
- Comment on 12 of England’s regional mayors back plan for ‘national active travel network’ 3 months ago:
Yes please. At this point, we need local councils to lead this as it’s just impossible at a parent or school level. We need the infrastructure changes too as I can’t see us getting there without it. It takes just one car driver to enforce their right of way on a road if it’s just open
- Comment on The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’ 3 months ago:
Who said it was a problem? It’s funny because you could be saying that is too low or too high, who knows!
- Comment on The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’ 3 months ago:
It was more of a class and misogyny problem, which due to cultural reasons these groups of men were able to take advantage. There’s a story of police being called to a disturbance and found a group of older guys (mostly south Asian but there was a white guy too) with two teenage (I think about 15) drunk, working class girls. Instead of stepping back and thinking there’s something very strange going on here and seeing those girls as victims, who were vulnerable, potentially being groomed and obviously being taken advantage of, they arrested the girls for drunk and disorderly, were apologetic to the men and didn’t even record the names of those men.
Statistically in the UK, most grooming and sexual violence is some by family members or family friends, against both boys and girls, and are perpetrated by white people simply because the UK is still 83% white! If any of these people truly cared about vulnerable children, they would focus on more than just these grooming gangs but that doesn’t rile up their base, get more likes and give them more support. Yeah, these horrible men need to be arrested and put away but let’s set up systems that try to prevent these children being harmed in the first place.
This article is talking about the wider problems of children not being seen as victims, and agencies not communicating with each other. Whether it’s a black boy arrested for carrying drugs or a white girl ignored as being “promiscuous”, there are systemic issues in our system that need to be addressed.
- Comment on Research reveals “non-existent” enforcement of industry-led standards on loot boxes 4 months ago:
Really? And did they self regulate their fees? Oh wait no, it took EU enforcement to cut down their fees and stop businesses passing them onto customers. The EU also enforced more security regulation, and more use of those by the banks themselves using these credit card processors who washed their hands of levels of security
- Comment on Opinion: Just ignore all the myths about low-traffic neighbourhoods: they’re popular, effective and here to stay 5 months ago:
Honestly, it’s so much better. The main roads are clogged up but can see no difference to before with those, they were always bad. I haven’t seen any difference in driving times. Our road is so much quieter so seen kids playing on the street (not often at all but the roads are still setup for cars of residents), and the drop constant noise that I didn’t notice until it had gone.
I think the next step should be to flip from it being a road with a small pavement to a shared communal area with priority for people, space for kids to play properly and actual green space. There could still be enough road to get to houses and car spaces. When the road was closed for that jubilee party it was so nice! Saw way more of my neighbours and all the kids were out playing together. Can’t see it happening though…
- Comment on Found paper 5 months ago:
Does anybody else practice what to say to a doctor / physio / therapist then completely go blank when actually taking to them, then realise after I forgot the main points?!? I’m guessing from this post it it’s not just me! Literally done this exact thing and see nothing weird haha ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Police launch urgent search after girl, 11, falls into River Thames 6 months ago:
That’s really sad, feel especially bad for the kids who were with her who are going to feel this for the rest of their lives
- Comment on Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules 1 year ago:
Good, what the UK and other countries did there was and is utterly shameful.
- Comment on BBC licence fee is ‘regressive tax’, broadcaster’s former chair says 1 year ago:
It is horrible how they target those who haven’t paid even if they don’t have to. They should put a stop to that, especially given how much people are struggling.
I don’t think we should get into a trap of blaming things that cost us for being unaffordable but to be challenging why we are so poor compared to previous years. Austerity, big business and the lack of taxes on the rich are to blame for everyone suffering now. Also the B word hasn’t helped. Yes, there has been the Ukraine war and covid but other countries seem to doing much better in response.
The licence fee is extremely good value for money for what we get and once we lose it, it’s gone and will never come back. To get the same things we did from private companies would be ten times as much. BBC is £13 a month. To replace that you’d need netflix (with UHD and multiple users, which bbc offers is £17.99), Planet radio (3.99 although free with ads), News (depends on your flavour. Telegraph is 29.99, Guardian £14.99. Free options are available but are paid by ‘special interests’ wanting to direct your thinking and ads) and even more other services on top.
If you are not using it you should not be paying though, I definitely agree. There should be an assumption that you are not using it rather than you are choosing not to pay.
