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People will mock this as small beer politics but predatory behaviour by parking companies has been a major source of frustration and financial cost for millions, and for many years.

Yep. Alas, response to this politics is often “why can’t they do anything really important?” And when they do big things, it’s all “but what about things that matter to me?” People are forever moaning about parking. The PM is doing something about it. And govt *can do more than one thing at once*

Imagine staying in your job when you're 1,683 days late in delivering results! Then imagine doing that while also killing 600,000 of your own citizens (or foreign recruits) and permanently injuring a million more. Welcome to the world of Putin. Here's the daily🧵for Day 1686

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

They're such self important clowns. It's increasingly clear their weird stop-me-before-I-kill-again message is some kind of weird hype strategy.

This is extraordinarily well written.

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

A philanthropic gift is a new hospital ward, it’s a CAT scanner, it’s a new library, it’s a school swimming pool it’s not funding fascism.

Statement from Irish President Catherine Connolly. Ireland, a country that suffered through colonialism and genocide at the hands the English, apparently, has little patience for Donald Trump's embrace of both colonialism and genocide. And President Connolly told him straight to his orange face.

Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabotage, a police source told AFP.

A protest supported by opposition parties Sinn Féin, Labour, Social Democrats, the Greens and People Before Profit is taking place in Dublin city centre against Trump’s visit. Other protests are due to take place in Clare, where Trump has travelled for the Irish Open.

Billionaires hoarding wealth while the rest of us struggle need to ask themselves: what would Dolly do? | Rebecca Shaw

So why did Mr T take that name? Because white people would often call black men ‘Boy’, and so this way they’d have to accord him the respect of being a man. Extraordinary interview by @shattenstone.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

Solar cuts ‘at least £400 from bills in even the cloudiest British areas’

And the biggest howler: Reform’s geniuses in Kent were apparently able to repaint a fence, trim the verge, plant grass seed (and get it to grow instantly), redo the pavement and repave the road all so quickly that the car in the top-right corner didn’t move an inch! Amazing!

Shouldn’t clubs get a ‘discount’ on their PSR for playing home grown players?

Yeah, but as long as this seat isn’t in the hands of a dad who logged into his kid’s season-ticket account a couple of times last season, we can probably let it slide. That’s the real scourge of modern football. Glad United are finally clamping down.

Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.

4-minute-long local footage captures the rapid development of the flash flood on the Nepal–Tibet border on August 26. Original post

Politician Discusses Secret Of Saying One Thing And Doing Another

THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX POUNDS is such a ridiculous, pretend amount of money for a 2-hour train journey

In the next few weeks I have business reasons to be in both Manchester and Barcelona and you can guess which one is cheaper to get to

It is definitely not helped by elite signalling that this group is the only voters that matter. Naturally makes you think there is more of them

Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.

📈 GREAT CLIMATE NEWS 📈 Renewables keep powering ahead. They now power *a third* of the world's electricity supply. And that number is only going up and up and up.

Wowser U.K.! Well done! Now double it! We’ll get there. Just walk over the naysayers and destroyers with your renewable power.

Precision matters, especially in headlines, especially on the BBC.

Very excited to learn about the Predicted Antwren, a bird that scientists figured out *should exist* based on the biogeography of a specific part of the Amazon and then went out to find it and did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predict...

Virgin Active thinks it's increasing its price from a ridiculous £120 a month to a laughable £218, but it's really just reduced the amount I pay by exactly £120 a month

We've done paid workshops for a decade ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

I mean, what exactly did they expect after making universities financially depend on international students, and at the same time making international students feel increasingly unwelcome in the country?

“A big employer who uses the water of 50,000 people … which only hires about ten people is not an employer. They are an extraction.” futurism.com/future-socie...

Bin Day cometh.

Wherever you are on planet Earth, Sophie Adenot has a message for you: "This solar eclipse is a beautiful reminder of the clockwork of our Solar System. Enjoy it. Stay curious." Our @esa.int astronaut is watching the eclipse from the Cupola windows on the International Space Station 🫶

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

He heard nothing more from them until yesterday, when they responded by saying although they value "academic rigour" and "independence" in all their research, they have decided he is not the best fit for their proposed study, and that they have decided to "pursue a new direction" I'm SHOCKED

An academic has posted on LinkedIn he was approached by Meta a few weeks ago to be the principal investigator on a study into the privacy and data protection impacts of their 'smart' (pervert) glasses He said he would only be involved if he retained authority to publish the findings, good or bad

Lies. It's 200 times when solar panels are "mentioned" in the fire report. e.g. “the fire did not reach the solar panel”