Peter Chleboun

Denmark lifts EV share to 64 pct of new car market, as Tesla sales slump across Scandinavia Denmark is now at 64 per cent share of EVs in the new car market, but Tesla no longer leads - the Toyota electric has taken top place in both Denmark and Norway.

thedriven.io/2025/02/20/d...

Hi from GB. Privatise Mail? Don't do it!!! Royal Mail was split off from Post Ofiice (the shop front for gov services) and recently sold off to a Czech oligarch. The service is now ridiculously expensive and post gets lost or takes ages. Terrible service.

Yes - the term should be restricted to those who fit the definition of National Socialists.

Campaign Success: Government to offer Youth Mobility Scheme to EU A reciprocal EU-UK Youth Mobility Scheme was first proposed by the cross-party UK trade and Business Commission in May 2023 with Best for Britain campaigning for the proposal ever since.

Fantastic news - if it actually happens 🤞
www.bestforbritain.org/_government_...

Nandy to announce millions in funding for museums, libraries and arts venues The announcement marks 60 years since the first ever arts white paper.

www.peeblesshirenews.com/news/nationa...

Roman Abramovich

Ironic that reducing pollution in shipping seems to have accelerated global warming. The reduction in clouds since the introduction of cleaner shipping fuels has been shown by satellite data too.

Remember Blair fully supported Bush (a republican president) in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Apart from Poland (not in the EU at the time) no other European country sent combat troops.

AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."

So basically the emperor has no clothes. Surprise!
BBC News - AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Too many ICE (and hybrid) car adverts on TV. Should be treated the same way as tobacco advertising.

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Not to mention all the extra CO2 generated during construction - a vast area in a highly congested part of the country.

From gov.uk

This table certainly shows the cost of other European and G7 countries from the gov.uk website.

But will that actually translate into lower energy prices in the UK. We have the highest energy prices (by far) in the G7 thanks to our perverse pricing mechanisms.

This clearly needs sorting out. As both a teacher (retired) and a parent I can see both sides. There needs to be more of a partnership between parents and schools.
Some learners may benefit from a break - but for some the loss of a key part of curriculum could have serious long term disadvantages.