I find this implausible high. Is this a case of “well, it didn’t happen to me but someone I know and not exactly in the last year but it *COULD* have”? 14% of theft from vehicles - people lock their cars usually so that’s a lot of broken windows I simply must not have noticed.

What is the legal basis for marking/enforcing spelling, grammar, punctuation in UK schools/unis? I know Dr Johnson did his dictionary with help from Lord Blackadder the 3rd, but is there for instance a act of parliament? Did the department or minister responsible for education send out a memo?

As the mainstream media skirts around this like a skittish cat, can someone/anyone explain the logic of charging Maduro with violating US gun laws by having some machine guns in Little Venice? Asking for a concerned friend who has some haggis in the fridge …

It is so utterly depressing how many wonderful things get turned into slop by AI #enslopification

Even linkedin gets it

Flying to Malpensa planning to drive a hire car 1000 miles to Sambuca di Sicilia (and presumably back) for 1 week house hunting but giving up after up after being exhausted after queuing 2.5 hours due to teething problems with the new border control systems … feels like fate had a very merciful day

But gin the auld fowks’ tales are richt An’ ghaists come hame on Hallow nicht, O freend o’ freends! what wad I gie To feel ye rax yer hand to me Atween the dark an’ caun’le-licht? —Violet Jacob, “Hallowe’en” (COUNTRY LIFE, 1920) Jacob’s son, Harry, was killed at the Somme in 1916 #Halloween #poem

Remember that clocks go back 1 hour tonight in the UK. Also remember, don’t be an ignorant twat. (credits to Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu )