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Lost your sense of direction? Turning off your phone may help you to reconnect.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#GISchat #geogchat #geosky
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#GISchat #geogchat #geosky
We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost | John Harris
The blue dot of GPS has cut us off from a basic human skill. It’s no wonder mountain rescuers are being called out so often, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Lost your sense of direction? Turning off your phone may help you to reconnect.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#GISchat #geogchat #geosky
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#GISchat #geogchat #geosky
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School breakfast clubs in England will be used to justify keeping the two-child benefits cap.
Breakfast clubs welcome, won't end child poverty
Children need decent housing, food, clothes, shoes, more
End two-child benefit cap, redistribute.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined
Breakfast clubs welcome, won't end child poverty
Children need decent housing, food, clothes, shoes, more
End two-child benefit cap, redistribute.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined
School breakfast clubs in England ‘will be used to justify keeping the two-child benefits cap’
As the education secretary announces the first primary schools to offer free breakfasts, Labour MPs question the commitment to fighting poverty
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
School breakfast clubs in England will be used to justify keeping the two-child benefits cap.
Breakfast clubs welcome, won't end child poverty
Children need decent housing, food, clothes, shoes, more
End two-child benefit cap, redistribute.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined
Breakfast clubs welcome, won't end child poverty
Children need decent housing, food, clothes, shoes, more
End two-child benefit cap, redistribute.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined
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England's children's homes run by private equity rake in millions.
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
Children's homes run by private equity rake in millions
The companies include outfits controlled by private equity firms, as well as the daughter of a former City stockbroker linked to fraud.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
England's children's homes run by private equity rake in millions.
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
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Excellent illustration of a process I see all the time.
h/t @chesaysthings on the hellsite.
h/t @chesaysthings on the hellsite.
January 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Excellent illustration of a process I see all the time.
h/t @chesaysthings on the hellsite.
h/t @chesaysthings on the hellsite.
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Impression management and England's water companies.
On 6 Aug 2024 Ofwat announced that it is proposing a fine of £168m on water companies for sewage dumping.
Thames Water £104m
Yorkshire Water £47m
Northumbrian Water £17m.
Critics disarmed but ...
To date, none collected.
archive.ph/knPyk
On 6 Aug 2024 Ofwat announced that it is proposing a fine of £168m on water companies for sewage dumping.
Thames Water £104m
Yorkshire Water £47m
Northumbrian Water £17m.
Critics disarmed but ...
To date, none collected.
archive.ph/knPyk
Water companies fined just £2 for rule breaking despite record sewage
Ofwat has been accused of not acting quickly enough to issue fines against water companies for sewage dumping
inews.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Impression management and England's water companies.
On 6 Aug 2024 Ofwat announced that it is proposing a fine of £168m on water companies for sewage dumping.
Thames Water £104m
Yorkshire Water £47m
Northumbrian Water £17m.
Critics disarmed but ...
To date, none collected.
archive.ph/knPyk
On 6 Aug 2024 Ofwat announced that it is proposing a fine of £168m on water companies for sewage dumping.
Thames Water £104m
Yorkshire Water £47m
Northumbrian Water £17m.
Critics disarmed but ...
To date, none collected.
archive.ph/knPyk
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Own the libs...
December 29, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Own the libs...
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Nigel Farage...a true man of the people*
*by this I mean, rich people, who dress lilke twats, ride horses while wankered on sherry and like torturing animals for fun..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
*by this I mean, rich people, who dress lilke twats, ride horses while wankered on sherry and like torturing animals for fun..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK claims to be ‘real opposition’ with more members than Tories
Nigel Farage heralds ‘historic moment’ as figure surpasses that of Conservatives when Kemi Badenoch took over
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Nigel Farage...a true man of the people*
*by this I mean, rich people, who dress lilke twats, ride horses while wankered on sherry and like torturing animals for fun..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
*by this I mean, rich people, who dress lilke twats, ride horses while wankered on sherry and like torturing animals for fun..
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer’s risky shift to the right.
5.2m children, 36% of UK children, live in poverty.
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn.
Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn.
Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 500,000 out of poverty, cost £2.5bn.
Taxing capital gains at the same rate as wages raises £14bn.
Govts that gave £895bn QE to speculators, can also end poverty.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...
Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government's honeymoon has been short lived.
leftfootforward.org
December 26, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Starmer’s risky shift to the right.
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This is from Labour’s 2024 GE manifesto …
December 22, 2024 at 3:42 PM
This is from Labour’s 2024 GE manifesto …
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Algorithmic terrorism - a new concept we need to learn and help educate others. In 2.5 years Elon Musk has turned a "global conversation" platform Twitter into an "algorithmic terrorism" tool X.
For over six months Musk has used his platform to incite violence across Europe with abject lies about minorities.
It’s algorithmic terrorism and has already led to violence in the UK and Germany.
How can we tolerate such intolerance?
It’s algorithmic terrorism and has already led to violence in the UK and Germany.
How can we tolerate such intolerance?
December 22, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Algorithmic terrorism - a new concept we need to learn and help educate others. In 2.5 years Elon Musk has turned a "global conversation" platform Twitter into an "algorithmic terrorism" tool X.
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Average annual energy bill to rise by £21 to £1,738 from January.
One of the highest prices in the world.
No curbs on profiteering - oil, gas, energy companies making record profits, fueling poverty, business costs.
Profiteers also get public subsidies.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/n...
One of the highest prices in the world.
No curbs on profiteering - oil, gas, energy companies making record profits, fueling poverty, business costs.
Profiteers also get public subsidies.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/n...
Average annual energy bill to rise to £1,738 in Great Britain from January
Increase in energy price cap by Ofgem follows 10% rise for current quarter, heaping more pressure on households
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Average annual energy bill to rise by £21 to £1,738 from January.
One of the highest prices in the world.
No curbs on profiteering - oil, gas, energy companies making record profits, fueling poverty, business costs.
Profiteers also get public subsidies.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/n...
One of the highest prices in the world.
No curbs on profiteering - oil, gas, energy companies making record profits, fueling poverty, business costs.
Profiteers also get public subsidies.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/n...
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KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK.
Ditched voluntary pledge to improve animal welfare.
Corporate pledges mean nothing when it comes to profits.
Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account.
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
Ditched voluntary pledge to improve animal welfare.
Corporate pledges mean nothing when it comes to profits.
Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account.
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK
Chain says it won’t be able to stop buying fast-growing breeds by 2026 because poultry industry cannot supply enough higher-welfare animals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:00 AM
KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK.
Ditched voluntary pledge to improve animal welfare.
Corporate pledges mean nothing when it comes to profits.
Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account.
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...
Ditched voluntary pledge to improve animal welfare.
Corporate pledges mean nothing when it comes to profits.
Only legally enforceable requirements can hold corporations to account.
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/no...