"There were some rare bats we were legally obliged to protect, but we just had to drive the tracks right through the woods. We couldn't come up with any viable solutions except an ugly shed, then when the council complained about how ugly it was, we went over their heads to central government and lawyered them into submission. Wow that was expensive, huh."

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I take it from the article that Times Radio specifically asked Louise whether Starmer had a problem with women as part of an interview - she's hardly going to say yes!

Times Radio probably asked her based on Duffield's shit-stirring and the fact that Sue Gray is a women. That makes two women who have left the government, therefore Starmer must hate all women! A pretty dumb conjecture by the Times, but I guess that's the right wing media's job.

My son had a book called "You're Called What?!" which featured a tasseled wobbegong, alongside other animals such as the Shovelnose Guitarfish, Bone Eating Snot Flower Worm, and the Aha Ha.

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We have our black bin collected fortnightly and we usually half-fill it. Three of us and pets.

Our kitchen bin only really is used for non-recyclable plastic and pet waste. Everything else goes in the food bin or recycling wheelie bin. Our recycling wheelie bin is usually completely overflowing, whereas many of my neighbours completely overfill the black bin and barely even bother with the recycling and food bins.

The situation is awful currently; there's a definite need for a complete rethink. I'm not sure what the NHS's waiting time measurement is based on, but my anecdotal experience isn't even close. I mean, I'd love to be only waiting 9 months - My son's autism assessment was recently pushed back until around 2026, and we've been waiting for multiple years already since we were referred by a pediatrician.

We only really need the assessment so he gets proper support in school. Ideally there'd be some sort of needs-based occupational health assessment available without the requirement of a diagnosis.

This is getting boring; there's been so many articles about this over the last few weeks.
Starmer's and Reeves' statements about this do not totally contradict. They've both said they want to invest, but they've decided that they won't staple themselves to the £28bn figure due to the Tories fucking shit up in the economy. I can't say I necessarily agree with this, but that's what has happened.

Apparently the sign is real but put up by "vandals"

Measures like Google Family Link already exist if parents choose to use them.
I don't think legislation restricting what young people can do online would necessarily help. It's illegal for kids to take drugs and drink alcohol yet it still happens. Whatever measures are put in place, there's usually a way around.

I'm on the fence about all this. In a utopia, a ceasefire would be ideal of course, but Israel aren't going to listen to suggestions like that, especially when they believe that a ceasefire would be a risk for them in terms of allowing Hamas to regroup. Whether that is a real risk I don't know, but either way I can't see a ceasefire happening in the immediate future until Israel have completed their objectives, regardless of what pressure comes from the UK.

The "humanitarian pauses" do make sense to me, as it would save lives whilst allowing Israel to keep their tactical advantage over Hamas.

But it seems Israel won't even do the bare minimum of a pause in bombing civilians, so what chance do we have of a ceasefire?

I understand the principled side of standing up for a ceasefire even if it seems unlikely, but the government's (and Keir's) POV does also make a kind of sense, to save Palestinian lives in a way that Israel is more likely to agree to.

Wow, the person who wrote that reply is utterly humourless. Mr Jones clearly caught Adam on a bad day at work.

It's not just technically unfeasible, it's logically unfeasible without fundamentally undermining encryption.

Yeah I absolutely agree with you. I didn't mean to suggest that lecturing the neurodiverse person would have solved the situation in this case.

I meant that even if the girl was neurotypical and/or intended it as a homophobic insult... it doesn't really matter - if the cop had to do anything, then just talking to the girl would have been a more proportionate response than what happened.

I meant that if the girl was neurotypical and meant to insult the cop, then the cop talking to her would still be a more proportionate response than assault and arrest.

Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(

Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn't autistic, there'd be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She's a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.