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Are we going to see Mayors elected with even lower levels of public support in 2025? Four Combined Authority mayors will be elected on 1 May 2025, but changes to the rules could see mayors taking power with little public support locally.Voters are going to the polls in

Are we going to see Mayors elected with even lower levels of public support in 2025? www.electoral-reform.org.uk/are-we-going... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

Definitely front and centre in the UK. In fact was being overly focused on the fact that both are nuclear powers this morning, which is definitely reaching towards an unlikely scenario

Multifaceted tech 🤣

Hydrogen powered will be more efficient and better long term cost option.

ChatGPT - Funding Blast Furnace Renewal Shared via ChatGPT

chatgpt.com/share/67fa5c... Obviously not my work but does align my thoughts around possibilities for the future

Why all local councils should be elected with proportional representation If you live in England, you might be casting a vote for a councillor in a local election this May – and with your vote, expressing your desire for how you’d like your local services

Why all local councils should be elected with proportional representation www.electoral-reform.org.uk/why-all-loca... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

Awesome film

Can't recall to be honest. I thought he said wiring a new build. I think there is scope for more general workers in the building trade, but not sure if enough folks would be up for doing it

I think he is really talking about running cables for the sparky rather than doing the full job. I think he was overstating the simplicity, but I'm pretty sure you could have people that could do some tasks without a full part P

Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers Poor diet, obesity and inactivity blamed on decline with Norway the only country seeing a rise

Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers

Poor diet, obesity and inactivity blamed on decline with Norway the only country seeing a rise

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The ad has two halves. On the left is says Who’s running this country which a picture of Musk head back laughing behind a superimposed White House. Underneath is says “Donald Trump or Elon Musk. On the right is a photo of a stern looking Musk with the words: No one elected Elon Musk to any office. Is says Learn More at firemusk.org

NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it.

Democracy dies in darkness.

Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.

When McKinsey Comes to Town **A TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** An explosive exposé of a firm whose work has made your world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous. McKinsey & Company have earned billio...

Here you go.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/441206...

Then served by who? You need to pay folk to be there and do that

So, you have the ingredients, but where are your staff to turn it in to something and serve it? All before the start of the normal work day

Come on Liz, you know that farming subsidies are of similar amounts per year, so not fair to play one against the other

Having taken the plunge and tried to read through the bill, I got very close to losing the will to live. How many words can someone use to visually say nothing but likely hide everything away inside the 'triable, which, wherefore' stuff. Never going to win a plain English award that's for sure

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic THE SHOCKING state of NHS dentistry in England has today - again - been laid bare

THE SHOCKING state of NHS dentistry in England laid bare. Where is the Governments promised plan to fix it @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social?

youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...

Ultra-Processed People IT'S NOT YOU. IT'S THE FOOD. 'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson 'You've got to get this book in your life . . . Completely compelling . . . Read ...

My latest completed read is: Ultra-Processed People 'Why do we all eat stuff that isn't food... And why can't we stop' by Chris van Tulleken. www.penguin.co.uk/books/451300... Very insightful & somewhat frightening education on how loads of what many of us eat isn't actually food ☹️. Recommended read

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would after reading about it. Definitely weird but not bad 🤣

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn’t Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political ...

My latest completed read is: How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn’t www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/ian-d... A great but very depressing insight into the Government we have rather than that which we might want. Cheers @iandunt.bsky.social for the nightmares 🤣

How would proportional representation work in the UK? Proportional Representation (PR) is the idea that seats in parliament should closely match votes cast in an election.  A system that’s perfectly proportional would mean that if a poli

How would proportional representation work in the UK? www.electoral-reform.org.uk/how-would-pr... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

‘It’s a continuation of hope’: Paris-based TV station provides a lifeline for women in Afghanistan Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban rule

'From a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hours a day into homes across Afghanistan, even as women are being steadily erased from public life in the country.' 1/2

Brilliant piece from Mum Sam! Really shows how years of tinkering and layering of changes have broken the tax system. Anything that results in the nominal rate of tax being higher for the lower paid than for the highest is just wrong. More Sam's Mum posts please 😀

Ministers to appeal against river pollution ruling won by Yorkshire anglers High court had ruled government was not meeting legal duty to clean up Costa Beck near Pickering

"The UK environment secretary, Steve Reed, is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers who are trying to restore the ecosystem of a river."

More on this staggeringly stupid decision in today's @theguardian.com by @sandralaville

Flying flags half-staff for 30 days after the death of a former president was put in place by President Dwight Eisenhower 70 years ago in 1954 & has been done for every president since that time until this Monday when Mike Johnson will end that tradition at Donald Trump’s demand.

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I'd be sleeping in the afternoon on that diet 🤣

I'm no fan of Man Utd, but always great to see young talent play well. Just not too well 😀

Taliban 'do not see women as human', says Malala in Pakistan Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to challenge policies restricting girls and women's schooling.

Taliban 'do not see women as human', says Malala in Pakistan