Labour could so very easily update the law to exempt the Progress Flag from planning permission. What's stopping them?

I trust those 4 Justices will never again try to make the argument that they can't allow gun control because of what it says in the Constitution

"In the distant future someone will invent paper so you don't need the internet and can pick up your news from a stand in a shop. I am very progressive"

Malicious compliance (with the character limit)

Why is a charity almost entirely funded by central government attacking government policy to support innovation? The big waggy finger of "You're Not Allowed To Do That" strikes again.

Surely easier just to say "down with the evil billionaire Big Tech robot job thieves" if that's what's really meant? There's no need to need to invent tenuous arguments why things smaller than a person moving at walking pace are any more of an obstacle or danger than anything else on pavements

for my money this is the absolute pinnacle of bluesky scolding:

Shine definitely seems to be coming off Reform now. Greens' drop could just be the Burnham bounce but they could still recover once he opens his mouth and starts disappointing people

Again, if Burnham keeps Mahmood at the Home Office, his whole coup will have been pointless.

This had better be mischief-making and he'd better set the record straight

I hope everyone who hoarded all those air conditioners and prevented anyone else getting any are happy now it's freezing cold again and they're sitting idle

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My guess is Mahmood's antics are the Blue Labour lot trying to bounce Burnham into keeping their shitty agenda alive

TLDR: he had a black box fitted for cheaper premiums, got caught speeding, and had his insurance cancelled. System working as intended TBBH So let's have mandatory GPS speed limiters for all new drivers so they physically can't make such stupid mistakes (and eventually roll them out for everyone)

When I tried to check in the desk attendant called me classist for wanting to book a room when some people have never had a room

You do not have to reach for cultural explanations for the lack of AC in Europe. It didn't used to be hot and now it is hot!

I know frontline politicians have thought it best to steer clear of Musk's constant incitement but it's time to go in hard on it and sod the consequences. Not doing so gives it legitimacy it cannot be allowed to have (and people will love to see it)

"The government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging" www.gov.uk/government/n...

I guess I've already had my say on the whole AC discourse. The way I see it, if it's acceptable for poors to have heating in winter, then it's ok for poors to have cooling in summer. The key bit that seems often ignored is that AC *can and should* run off solar/renewables.

If Burnham keeps her at the HO he's dooming himself

"That's great advice for life" I'm sure it worked in the specific professional situation Brooks was in and for the specific people he was dealing with but… I would doubt that it's good life advice in general?

Autonomous cars have been invented now. They exist in the world. All evidence points to them being significantly safer than human drivers. You can't wish them away because you're uneasy about them in a sort-of hazy, poorly defined way.

Burnham needs to make it his priority to stamp on this

My daughter said to me on Thursday “this is the hottest day of my life” and honestly the Homer/Bart “so far” meme has never been so bitter

The US should never host a world event again

Trump continuing to prove the case for why your head of government and head of state should not be the same person

At the point where I'm actively looking forward to an otherwise gruelling 3-hour drive just to get out of this

Incredible how the press and Labour pols have been allowed to present the Cass review as neutral and objective. The Tories wanted to ban trans healthcare and they put the right person in place to get it

Stunning display of dominance that must be making Russians start to wonder if their great leader is all that great

*goose meme* Which wars

Should be classified as theft TBH

Sense this is going to be what most of the UK will be thinking TBH. I'll just get me some aircon and solar panels, cheaper med-style hols on the coast, homegrown British wine, sounds good

Milquetoast shitlibs assemble

Just in time for everyone else to leave next year

Hide your glassware #totp

Just a superb piece of songwriting #totp

So much of this Fantasy Constitution Manager stuff around in the media at the moment. "Every midterm PM who doesn't call a GE is illegitimate!" "A PM can't deviate from their manifesto without a GE!" Shut up. Unwritten constitution and parliamentary supremacy baby

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

Ironic that the day I decide "sod the mozzies, I'm sleeping with all the windows open" the mozzies all seem to have vanished

I notice that with people noticing Reform's increasingly aggressive rhetoric towards EU immigrants, a common reaction - from perfectly nice individuals - is "it's awful to think you may have to go home" - when our home is so obviously here, in Britain. This angers me even more than Farage's threats.

All I can really say is Reform are scum and we need to start forcing the media to call them far right, because people need to know that's what this is

This makes me so angry, it's quite literally proposing to breach a core promise that we as a country made over Brexit.

This feels unethical on many levels.

good morning

If "very liberal" is how all the far right see him anyway… why not proudly be that? Make them as mad as possible, get as much of your base back from the Greens as possible

It's a shame that so many at the top have taken home the idea that banning kids from using all the social giants should mean "kids shouldn't be using any social media at all", not "we need to create new well-policed online hangouts where kids can safely go"

This is how you do it. Don't roll out the red carpet for the likes of Farage and Lowe "because democracy": be bold and exclude them. The state sent soldiers to fight and die to defeat what they represent and it shouldn't be neutral on that

I admit that I used to be a hairshirt opponent of air conditioning. But I love the idea of solar powered cooling systems. The judo of technology: using your opponent’s power against itself.

I do think we need legislation to protect street trees and to make councils plant them where they've already been removed

These people are like a washed up band that've been playing the same once-shiny tunes for ten years in exactly the same way and somehow don't care that they're now playing to empty rooms. They're just happy to keep doing it because it's all they know how to do