Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Germany vows to boost cycling as part of climate effort

BERLIN — Germany, home to the Autobahn and a powerful motor industry, wants its citizens to spend less time driving and more time cycling to help save the planet.

https://www.delta-optimist.com/the-mix/germany-vows-to-boost-cycling-as-part-of-climate-effort-3651980 #climateemergency #pollution #environment #ecology #bike

#NicolaJennings on #BorisJohnson’s texts to #JamesDyson – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/apr/21/nicola-jennings-on-boris-johnsons-texts-to-james-dyson-cartoon#img-51

#UK #Politics #Satire

Plans approved for hundreds of flats in Butetown with zero affordable homes. https://nation.cymru/news/plans-approved-for-hundreds-of-flats-in-butetown-with-zero-affordable-homes/

Minister apologises for #black and #Asian #war #dead commemoration failures | #Military | The Guardian

Better late than never, I suppose.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/22/minister-apologises-for-black-and-asian-war-dead-commemoration-failures

#UK

No one should ever make the mistake of thinking that a corporation is "good" - even the corporation that does consistent good today is liable to changes in ownership and management in the future that can drastically alter its conduct.

By all means, cheer the things that companies do, when they benefit the public - and condemn the things that do harm.

Always fight for the user, never for the system.

eof/

Climate Change Could Cut World Economy by $23 Trillion in 2050, Insurance Giant Warns
Poor nations would be particularly hard hit, but few would escape, Swiss Re said. The findings could influence how the industry prices insurance and invests its mammoth portfolios.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/climate/world-economy-swiss-re-insurance.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

New passport arrives for Brazilian who took Welsh language citizenship oath. https://nation.cymru/news/new-passport-arrives-for-brazilian-who-took-welsh-language-citizenship-oath/

People of Ceredigion have the lowest carbon footprint in the UK, study reveals. https://nation.cymru/news/people-of-ceredigion-have-the-lowest-carbon-footprint-in-the-uk-study-reveals/

Man, 24, arrested over mass #tree felling in #Surrey | #UK news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/23/man-24-arrested-over-mass-tree-felling-in-surrey

#Crime #Vandalism #England

“When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one’s dreams if one is not to be troubled by them; there is a way of separating one’s dreams from one’s life which so often produces good results that I ask myself whether one ought not, at all costs, to try it, simply as a preventive, just as certain surgeons make out that we ought, to avoid the risk of appendicitis later on, to have all our appendices taken out when we are children.”

-- Marcel Proust

Only 40% of people in Wales think the UK will still exist in a decade. https://nation.cymru/news/only-40-of-people-in-wales-think-the-uk-will-still-exist-in-a-decade/

YesCymru cofounder calls for Wales to have its own central bank. https://nation.cymru/news/yescymru-cofounder-calls-for-wales-to-have-its-own-central-bank/

#EtonCollege, one of the bastions of privileged elite in England, has produced 20 prime ministers, including the catastrophic #DavidCameron and #BorisJohnson

The UK press rarely reports on why such dysfunctional and corrupt people are products of this system, but other journalists are more forensic https://www-spiegel-de.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.spiegel.de/international/europe/how-eton-college-perpetuates-problems-in-the-uk-a-1280694-amp.html

#Spiegel #Eton #UKPol

Posted on #Diaspora* by earendil@pluspora.com

#Cartoon #Humour

Callaghan government discussed moving sea borders and using propaganda to prevent UK break-up. https://nation.cymru/news/callaghan-government-discussed-moving-sea-borders-and-using-propaganda-to-prevent-uk-break-up/

Derek Chauvin (The murderer of #GeorgeFloyd) has just officially been convicted of murder by the grand jury, finally justice!

#Derek #DerekChauvin #Chauvin #Floyd #Trial