Thousands of opposition supporters fill central Budapest along Andrassy Avenue for over a kilometer behind Peter Magyar, as Orban's supporters gather at parliament. A poll gives Magyar's Tisza party a 20-point lead among decided voters, Bloomberg reported. #Europe

Huge crowds today in Budapest, Hungary. They are calling for a new government under Peter Magyar and an end of Orban's rampant corruption.

Source: P. Magyar

Where would it not be OK to have Chelsea huddle?

How..just for Premiership?

Agree with this it is a combination of good organisation and good people at every level.

WOuld point out that if it were down to just how much your owner was willing to spend, then would Villa be able to compete with Saudi or whoever?
Of course not.
Every team would be competing to be bought by the richest owners and Villa would still be not spending enough!
oh and Newcastle top!

Might be mature tech, but not used so much in UK until recently.

All sorts of heat pumps and anecdotally I have heard o gas boilers being replaced by heat pumps!

Another consequence of voting in Conservatives in 2015, meant that the Sustainable homes requirement was abandoned for 2016.
Tens of thousands of homes would have been more efficient and house building programs would have already ironed out the kinks (hopefully)!
Short term right wing thinking!

Tidal lagoons and pump storage lagoons for off shore wind

Its a pump!

Getting cheaper all the time and probably comparable replacement cost
Safety?
AIr quality ?
CO?
Methane leakage?
Uses less energy

timeline for making this happen?

Would point out that in general Gas units require ongoing maintenance, replacement and certification.
Gas also poses higher risk for fires and explosions, lowers house air quality, is a source of CO pollution (a quiet death) and is the main contributor for methane pollution in towns and cities

&
Insulation and Ventilation!

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in the head as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip

The acts of a 'Democratic' Government and state, or more akin to the acts of an authoritarian state that has dehumanised a section of its population, and rescinded that populations ability to turn to law enforcers or the law?

#EthnicCleansing?

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UK must build own nuclear missiles to end US reliance, says Ed Davey Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to start work on a

The UK can work with France - other EU allies might help with costs. But before this, the UK needs to root out all dependencies on US tech, including software. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'RejoinEU

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

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Country Overshoot Day 2026 calendar The Country Overshoot Day 2026 calendar shows the dates by which humanity would have used up everything Earth can renew for that year, if all people consumed at the level of that country.

With their oversized footprints, Qatar, Luxembourg, Singapore, Kuwait, Mongolia, Canada, the UAE & the US have already this year "overshot the Earth's biocapacity" - lived beyond their means. The UK does so on May 14th, 1 week before China.
Check it out
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Football is one hell of a drug ❤️

Max Dowman's late goal, clinching a 2-0 Arsenal win and etching his name in the record books as the youngest-ever Premier League scorer, even had security guards going crazy 😅

If it was the first step in a plan to enhance Representation, then fair enough, it would show steps on a path
but
it seems more like tinkering at the edges by Starmer's Labour, to protect the current status quo,
a cynical veneer to pretend that there is #change, while doing the minimum .

😂

A possible course of action for HAL Starmer?

If instead of quotas, the size of boats were regulated and the type of fishing gear, as well as better rules about areas of fishing then fish stocks might actually recover.

Nationality used by fishing industry to point finger elsewhere, even though the problem of over fishing seem to be greed

Just realised today's not only Mothering Sunday, it's also Ides of March and you know who I want to see someone in Julius Caesar's position and his untimely fate with knives

Like a certain old rotting rotund orange, a fascist techbro or even Farage

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses.

Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social
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Starmer comes across as weirdly detached from all around him, but I find it odd how his desire to read up extensively on important topics is viewed as "passive" and a sign of being detached. It's certainly not an indicator of lacking intellectual curiosity, which he's accused of here

This twat called on Angela Rayner to resign

In the UK this sort of action gets a person the label terrorist!

not just other countries, plenty of illegal fishing going on

Enforcement and protected nurseries are needed.

human nature and the tendency of populations to listen to those with the loudest voices that tell them to support/gamble on those that promise cake now, or cake for their club only,
rather than those that promise enough cake but you need to eat other things as well

Wonderful piece

Thanks

I had a ringside seat for the Iranian revolution. Foreign meddling didn’t work then either | Paul Taylor Even as the first western journalist to interview Ayatollah Khomeini, I had no inkling of what was to come. Perhaps we should have learned from history, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

Negotiation and propaganda were always the long term solution.
War generally suits the agendas of authoritarians, especially when it can be framed as existential
see Netanyahu
the way Putin portrayed the influence of the EU and NATO as somehow threatening

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