theinspectorst
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- Comment on Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks 6 months ago:
- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 7 months ago:
But ... I thought the 2009 film was an origin story?
It was literally the story of how the Kelvinverse came to exist and it followed Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co from their Academy days.
- Comment on Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed 7 months ago:
Rishi: we have a plan for dealing with the cost of living crisis.
The plan:
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 7 months ago:
That was my thought, I'm quite up for this. I enjoyed The Voyage Home, I enjoyed The Trouble with Tribbles - I wouldn't want all Trek to be like that but there is absolutely a place in the franchise for light-hearted takes on Trek.
- Comment on Faith school banning parts of geography lessons, Ofsted finds 8 months ago:
Ahh, that makes sense!
- Comment on Faith school banning parts of geography lessons, Ofsted finds 8 months ago:
I'm unsurprised that a religious school is failing to teach science properly, but which bits of geography are they objecting to?
- Comment on What normies see when someone posts here claiming Disco isn't canon 9 months ago:
Perhaps today is a good day for my voice to break!
- Comment on What normies see when someone posts here claiming Disco isn't canon 9 months ago:
Worf's Klingon prosthetics literally changed between season 1 and seasons 2-7 of TNG. This obviously raises serious continuity issues about whether seasons 2-7 of TNG are even canon...
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-worf-tng-klingon-makeup-change-reason/
- ‘97% seemed absurd’: Labour’s Stephen Timms on the English test scandal that wrecked liveswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 9 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Michael Gove says no-fault evictions will be banned this year 9 months ago:
Michael Gove says a lot of things.
- Comment on UK farmers vow to mount more blockades over cheap post-Brexit imports 9 months ago:
Cheap food imports? During a cost-of-living crisis? Blasphemy! Bring back the Corn Laws!
- Comment on Liz Truss targets 'secret Tories' with new campaign 9 months ago:
[Mogg] declared the death of "Davos man" - members of the global and political elite who descend on a Swiss ski resort every year for a global economic forum.
Ah, yes the famously left-wing extremists of ... the World Economic Forum.
- Submitted 9 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says 9 months ago:
Maybe turn on the human being bit of your brain. The guy has cancer.
- Comment on King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says 9 months ago:
Imagine asking if it's good or bad news that an old man has cancer.
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 9 months ago:
No, the NHS under the Tories received real terms budget increases every year but one (in the second year of the Coalition, when NHS spending rose by very slightly less than inflation).
The problem is that, with large sections of the general public living more and more unhealthy lives, the demands on the NHS have been growing even faster than the real-terms budget. Obesity is correlated with a range of serious health problems - diabetes, cardiovascular disease, various cancers - so the real-terms NHS budget would need to grow at a much faster rate than inflation to cope with the continuing deterioration of public health.
Ultimately, this isn't a problem we should have been trying to spend our way out of anyway. The solution to an obesity epidemic shouldn't have been to try and load the consequences onto the NHS; it should have been to take strong preventative measures to head it off well before the point when a quarter of the adult population of England were technically obese (and as many again were overweight).
When Covid hit, we went into lockdown to avoid overwhelming the NHS - where was the obesity equivalent of the Covid lockdowns?
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 9 months ago:
Yes, my point was that above-inflation budget increases (so real-terms budget increases) ought to have led to improving services, other things being equal. But other things aren't equal - partly because people are getting older, but also partly because people are living unhealthier lives.
So just to stand still, the NHS would have needed even larger above-inflation spending hikes than it got; or, heaven forbid, government policy would have had to start treating mass obesity as the public health emergency that it is, rather than fretting about the Tory press calling this a 'nanny state'...
- Comment on UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts 9 months ago:
This is a really big factor. The public discourse around the NHS would lead you to think that NHS spending had been squeezed over the last 14 years - but it hasn't. Cameron made a big political choice in 2010 that the NHS would be exempt from the budget cuts that affected the rest of the public sector; and the NHS budget has actually consistently grown faster than inflation under a decade and a half of Tory health secretaries.
So why does the NHS feel under so much more pressure today than under New Labour?
Broadly, two reasons. The first, outside the government's control, is that the population has aged since 2010, and old people are more likely to need GP appointments and hospital beds. And the second, at least somewhat more in the government's control, is that public health has continued its deteriorating trend of the last several decades - the share of people overweight or obese in particular, who also find themselves disproportionately taking up health services.
We can't do anything about people getting older but we can act on the public health problem. We should be treating combating obesity with the same urgency we treated Covid.
- Comment on Help @CountBinface@mastodon.world become Mayor of London. 10 months ago:
It's a first-past-the-post election - the Tories changed the electoral system because they knew they couldn't win it in a fair vote. The Tories have also nominated Susan Hall as their candidate - a right-wing extremist, Trump-supporter, culture wars lunatic, swivel-eyed Islamphobic.
In an election like this, if you're going to vote for a joke candidate then you might as well vote for the Tory directly.
- Comment on If the borg were a religion 10 months ago:
They're pro-choice and pro-contraception.
They understand that abstinence is futile.
- Comment on The genius of Britain’s anti-intellectualism 10 months ago:
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/Snnot
- Submitted 10 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and- 10 months ago:
It's Mariner's sarcastic salute!
- Comment on No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says 10 months ago:
It's not either/or.
The UK benefits system is not generous enough. But most shoplifting is drug-related, it's not Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread for his starving niece.
The poor and their children suffer in Britain, but they do so while staying within the rules.
- Comment on Energy bills in Great Britain rise by 5% as price cap increases 10 months ago:
It doesn't. It increases when the market price increases, it decreases when the market price falls.
The point of the price cap isn't to be some sort of subsidy of consumer energy costs - though the government did some separate stuff along those lines with the energy price guarantee (which capped the typical household's energy bill at £2,500 for the period it was relevant) or the support scheme in winter 2022 when the taxpayer paid everyone £400. The price cap is now below the energy price guarantee so the subsidies are no longer relevant.
The price cap is just a way of giving people who chose to be on variable tariffs a little bit of predictability of what they'll be paying for energy three months ahead when the market prices are moving around.
- Comment on One in three adults in UK and Ireland eat five or more daily portions of fruit and veg 10 months ago:
“This may be the first time the UK has topped a European league table for the right reasons,” said Rob Percival, the head of food policy at the Soil Association.
- One in three adults in UK and Ireland eat five or more daily portions of fruit and vegwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 10 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Walter Koenig was bitterly disappointed about his role in Star Trek VI 10 months ago:
The movie wasn't that well-liked and wasn't the perfect send-off for the original crew of Star Trek.
What a weird thing to say. I've always heard it described as one of the best TOS films and I always found the ending quite an emotional and fitting send-off to the TOS crew.
- Comment on I'm so confused right now 🤔 10 months ago:
Miles O'Brien in the Kelvin-verse.
- Comment on I'm so confused right now 🤔 10 months ago:
Miles O'Brien in the Kelvin-verse.
