MonsterMonster
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- Comment on Polanski apologises over claim he can increase women’s breast sizes with his mind 1 day ago:
Has there been a politician that’s gone 0-to-controversial quicker than this after being elected?
- Comment on UK’s last local currency axed due to rise of digital and card payments 2 days ago:
“The Lewes Pound – the UK’s final surviving local currency – is being officially discontinued after 16 years of circulation, amid the rise in card and digital payments resulting in lack of demand for cash, including local alternatives.
Sunday 31 August was the last day the currency, which worked like a voucher, was valid in participating shops and businesses in the East Sussex town, marking the end of a bold experiment in community economics.
Launched in 2008 as a response to global financial instability and environmental concerns, the Lewes Pound was designed to encourage support of local business in Lewes. At its peak, over 100 shops accepted the currency, and it became a symbol of grassroots resilience and sustainability.”
- Comment on Paper and mobile train tickets to be replaced with GPS tracking in new travel trial 3 days ago:
This is going to end up as one of those hugely expensive IT project failures and pissed off customers.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch: I’d go further than Farage and deport women and children 1 week ago:
Kemi Badenoch: “Look at me, look at me … I can be more evil than you”
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 2 weeks ago:
What is it with the rise of the spineless morons at the moment?
- Comment on BrewDog to close 10 bars amid ‘extremely difficult’ time for hospitality industry 1 month ago:
I’ve avoided buying Brewdog since finding out about them with this.
- Comment on Child rapist visits Prince Andrews brother. 1 month ago:
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- Comment on The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation 1 month ago:
Interesting article. They certainly sound like a pair of scum bags.
- Comment on Sam Altman brings his eye-scanning identity verification startup to the UK 2 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes 2 months ago:
The problem with renationalising it is that we’d inherit the billions of debt.
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Pension Fund Invests in Israeli Weapons Firm Elbit Systems 2 months ago:
“Employees saving into Nest’s Retirement Date Fund from December 2024 are funding Elbit Systems Ltd, Israel’s largest defence firm, which advertises its products as battle-tested by the Israeli military in operations in Palestine.”
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 3 months ago:
“state school” in UK terminology. Public school in the UK means private school. Weird I know.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 3 months ago:
I smell a rat.
The image for this article, and the same family in slightly different poses, can be found across multiple websites.
The image held within the archived Telegraph article seems to be a generic library image yet there appears to be no reference of this. The footnote of the image implies this is the “hard up” family.
- Comment on Opinion: Britain needs an alfresco dining revolution to bring life into its cold city centres 3 months ago:
Er … it’s too frigging cold and when it’s warm it stinks due to the streets and paths not being cleared of the pavement pizzas of the previous evening.
- Comment on If Keir Starmer is willing to help Trump host a lucrative golf tournament, will he caddy for him too? 3 months ago:
The sight of the Trump cabinet pandering to the Orange Turd is utterly embarrassing, but when it’s your own PM doing this it’s on a different level.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform this summer 4 months ago:
The lettuce will be performing an encore.
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- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 5 months ago:
Fixed
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 5 months ago:
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 5 months ago:
- Comment on Schools tell BBC about 'astronomical' repair bills as 25-year PFI contract heads into meltdown 6 months ago:
I remember these private finance initiatives being launched in the 90s and thinking that someone will be making a lot of money from the tax payers.
PFI’s are sanctioned scams.
- Schools tell BBC about 'astronomical' repair bills as 25-year PFI contract heads into meltdownwww.bbc.co.uk ↗Submitted 6 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones 6 months ago:
This has been happening for years, decades even. Building on land that regularly floods and stays flooded for months every year.
- Comment on As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan 6 months ago:
If companies paid decent wages there wouldn’t need to be a reliance on state welfare and charities. Companies paying low wages benefit indirectly from the benefits paid.
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 7 months ago:
They’ve got shareholders to feed. Somebody has to pay their inflated dividends.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 7 months ago:
Actual teaching is not the main part of the job anymore. Teachers are being used as social workers, child minders, parents, filling in the gaps where others are not doing those roles. All of that is wrapped up in red tape.
I’m not a teacher but I looked into it a few years ago. After having our own kids late in life I got to see the hell that teachers go through and many leave for new careers.
All of this on top of the debt that people take on to pay for the training, on top of the debt taken on for a degree.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that this is happening.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 7 months ago:
Until Christmas the last time I went to a WH Smith’s was when they had a record section.
Called in this Christmas for a last minute board game and ended up buying on Amazon. The stores are tired and don’t seem to have a purpose.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 7 months ago:
I’m surprised the High Street stores have remained opened for this long. They were past their usefulness well over a decade ago and have been supported by their airport and hospital shops by ripping customers off.
Outdated. Expensive.
- Comment on UK should learn from Donald Trump’s ‘boosterism’, Rachel Reeves says 7 months ago:
“planning, deregulation, energy and trade.” It’s the combination of deregulation and energy that troubles me. Didn’t the financial crisis of 2008 to now start with deregulation of the banks?