https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64511189
What could possibly go wrong?
Great news!
"For the first time, wind and solar power produced more of the EU’s electricity than fossil gas in 2022. Renewable energies were responsible for a record fifth (22%) of the bloc’s electricity. Hydropower dropped to its lowest share of electricity since at least 2000 due to a 1-in-500 year drought in summer which dried out the continent’s hydro reservoirs. The nuclear share also dipped significantly."
#PlanetGreen 💚
#RenewableEnergy 🌻
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/31/major-milestone-for-eu-energy-wind-and-solar-produced-more-electricity-than-gas-in-2022
RT @CentralBylines@twitter.com
Rail firm paid shareholders £500m before asking workers to take wage cut.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CentralBylines/status/1619332387552518144
Senator Chris Murphy:
“You can't make this up.
Republicans added $4 TRILLION to the debt with their tax cut for corporations and billionaires.
Now, they are refusing allow Treasury to pay back the loans unless Congress agrees to cuts to Medicare and Social Security.”
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/president-trumps-4-trillion-debt-increase
Met officer who was posted at school admits child sexual abuse offences - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/25/met-police-officer-hussain-chehab-admits-child-sexual-offences gosh, it's almost as if @metpoliceuk is beyond salvation....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64396513
Shocking but not surprising, given that the #MetPolice have failed vetting in other areas. And of course child abusers would want to work with children.
I am old enough to remember when our rivers were burning and smog enveloped our cities - the regulations were put into place for very valid reasons!
#environment
George Santos: I was definitely never a drag queen. But when I was a drag queen, I won “sevral GAY ‘BEAUTY PAGENTS.’”
Which raises a question. The Republican leadership has no problem with his being a con artist, serial liar, embezzler, and international fugitive serving in Congress under an assumed name. Will the drag queen thing be a dealbreaker?
Suella Braverman...
Suella Braverman has refused to apologise to a Holocaust survivor who said the home secretary’s description of migrants as an “invasion” was akin to language the Nazis used to justify murdering her family.
'The British Medical Association has warned that relying on the private sector threatens the "sustainability of the NHS”, which has suffered from “a decade of underinvestment”.'
Private health firms donated £800,000 to Conservative Party | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/private-health-firms-donate-to-conservative-party-amid-nhs-crisis/?utm_source=SEGMENT%20-%20Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Conservatives%20took%20more%20than%20%C2%A3800%2C000%20from%20private%20health%20firms&_kx=u21e0qqT6J7jw__c2srKO-SI0dMizRafjc_2d6g4uiMltCkKqCY0pZm1jLnP4TV2.YjCYwm
Sunbeams in the Evergreen Oaks of Allerford Plantation, Exmoor National Park. #Exmoor #exmoornationalpark #allerfordplantation #sunbeam #sunbeams #woodland #evergreenoak #oak #photography #landscapephotography
Impressive flooded pothole in Yorkshire
RT @AvaSantina@twitter.com
Lib Dem Layla Moran says there should be a by-election after Tory MP Andrew Bridgen compared the Covid vaccine to the Holocaust.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AvaSantina/status/1613203784901222400
It really is bizarre. I know I mentioned this story once on Mastodon somewhere before, but it fits here.
A few years back there was this know-it-all nurse at my kid's school. One day I get a call around mid-day that I need to come pick up my son because he wasn't feeling well. So I get there and she brings him out and in front of a bunch of other parents and teachers she proceeds to give me this sanctimonious lecture about how I clearly never should have let my kid go to school and how awful it was that I was letting him spread whatever had made him ill to everyone else.
Of course, he was showing no symptoms hours earlier. I never would have sent him in sick, but, anyway....
One of my his friend's moms remembered this interaction and a couple of months ago sends me a text that the same nurse called her and gave her a big lecture about how her kid had been out sick for a few days in a row and that wasn't acceptable. No matter what he needed to get into school and not miss anymore days. There's no testing requirement anymore, so it didn't matter what he had, just get him back in class.
A couple weeks later another parent shared almost the exact same story. They seem to be, literally, calling everyone who's out sick and telling them that not only is it OK to send their kid to school sick, but it's the right thing to do. Insanity.
Brexit et Frexit
#LeaveLies just sort of keep exposing themselves. Like rancid old perverts who just can’t help opening their stupid mouths. I take no pleasure at all in this - it was all so predictable, all so obvious and inevitable. I desperately don’t want to see France walk the same path. Il faut jamais #Frexit
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