Layla Moran, the committee’s chair and a Liberal Democrat MP, highlighted the widespread advertising and availability of unhealthy food, and urged ministers to take strong action
We’ve only just solved humanity’s most basic problem – do we have enough food? – and now you want to ban the stuff?
IBM is on track for its biggest share price slump on record after warning that AI is eating into its business.
More than $68bn (£50bn) was wiped off the company’s value at the start of trading on Tuesday after the company said customers were ploughing money into the AI boom rather than its products.
Eventually – and this may not be that, yet – every technology is replaced by a newer one. Takes a long, long, time – the London Hydraulic Power Company still had an installed base into the 1960s – but it does happen.
Private companies could be prevented from accumulating untaxed personal wealth.
People must stop reinvesting past profits. That’ll sort things out, no?
Those with privilege carry half the risk of childhood obesity that those in deprived groups have.
This is the real cost of the toleration of income and wealth inequality, discrimination, and the failure to recognise the impact of neurodivergence, since all those subject to these are more likely to be in the deprived groups.
The lumpen are fat because we’re not nice to the autistic.
Well, could be I guess. But I think we’d require some proof, no?
Museum loans were also problematic, Carr said.
“The problem is that a privately owned fossil can be recalled from a museum at any moment back into an owner’s home, so the principles of availability and replicability are not guaranteed.”
Indeed many journals now stipulate that research papers must be based on fossils housed in permanent public repositories.
“When we publish research, we need to make sure that research is repeatable, meaning that other scientists can check our data and results and verify our conclusions, or not,” said Brusatte. “The only way for our research to be repeatable is if the dinosaur fossils we study are in a museum, where other scientists are guaranteed access to them.”
Insert your own list of those that don’t here…..
Jim Glennie, who has died aged 100, was one of a dwindling number of surviving veterans of Operation Overlord, the landings in Normandy in June 1944, the largest amphibious assault in history.
James Glennie was born at Turriff, Aberdeenshire, on August 19 1925. Always known as Jim, aged 16 he joined the Home Guard. In 1943, after completing his training he joined the 5th/7th Battalion Gordon Highlanders at Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
Right regiment but is it the right battalion? For the McAuslan stories by George McDonald Fraser are about that regiment at exactly that time….well, OK, they’re a collection of things that happened right across the Highland Division as the little note at the end of the last book shows. But M-F was G Highlanders…..
How a convicted fraudster became Andy Burnham’s right-hand woman
If every reference to George Cottrell is “th convicted moneylaunderer” or watever it is they’re using then and therefore:
Louise Haigh, the convicted fraudster.
Always, every reference.
George Cottrell and Stephen Cottrell are, respectively, mates with Nige and the Archbishop of York. Names don’t lie, they’re connected!
I shall soon be launching an investigation into how Big Church is controlling Reform. Send money now to fund this!
The 2022 election brought a record-breaking gender gap between men and women, and the latest statistics show that in September the gulf is likely to be even wider: a recent survey by Statistics Sweden found that twice as many men as women support the far-right Sweden Democrats, while female support for the Social Democrats is 10 percentage points higher than its male equivalent.
That entire feminisation of politics raises that interesting question, no?
One is led by Sweden’s first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, and has promised smaller school-class sizes, more housing and free dental care for young people. The other, led by Jimmie Åkesson, has neo-Nazi roots and has pledged to lower taxes, improve public safety and treat “anti-Swedishness” as a hate crime.
I do tend to think the world would be further right if only men had the vote. Of course, dependent upon your own stance this might be ewlcome. But it all has made a difference, no? And as with any difference made it’s possible to muse on whether it’s a Good Thing or not.
Reform UK would have held just 15% of the donations it received last year if a proposed £100,000 cap on political donations had been in force, according to analysis shared with the Guardian.
The analysis by Friends of the Earth using Electoral Commission data highlights the party’s reliance on a handful of wealthy backers in advance of a showdown over political funding.
Can’t have outsiders challenging the establishment of the uniparty now, can we?
The heatwave that affected England and Wales in June killed about 440 people a day during its three-day peak, scientists have estimated. Across the whole of the June heatwave, plus the one in May, about 2,700 people lost their lives prematurely.
The data starkly illustrates the danger of extreme heat, which is being supercharged by the climate crisis. More than 40% of the people affected would not have died without the 1.4C of human-caused global heating to date, according to the analysis.
Now compare and contrast with those killed by cold snaps. As Our Man Bjorn has been known to note.
As her comments made the rounds on social media, two MEPs from rightwing populist parties shot back at her online. “Cry more,” wrote the Finnish MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen, of the Finns party, in response to a clip of Al-Sahlani addressing parliament, while the Danish MP Kristoffer Storm, of the Denmark Democrats, said she “should go home”.
On Wednesday, Al-Sahlani said she had filed a police complaint against Storm, accusing him of using racist speech as well as hate speech against her. Her complaint had only focused on the Danish MEP, she said, as Swedish police were unsure of how to handle Tynkkynen’s social media post.
Still, fun to see that the EU Parliament is, at least, home to some robust political debate.
And reporting this to the police? Gerrouttofit.
The issue that should be convulsing France is Le Pen’s legitimacy as a public representative.
If the voters vote for her, knowing what they know, then she’s in. ‘S democratic that way, see?
Because what is taking place is not an aberration, not a deviation, but a norm that is enacted and blessed explicitly by successive generations of Israeli politicians and, it seems, by Israeli society. Until that fact is confronted, Palestinians will continue to be detained, disappeared, tortured and sexually abused, and the abusers asked politely, concernedly, occasionally, to please investigate themselves.
We actually have film of Hamas doing all of these things to Israelis. To kids at a music festival. Nesrine’s been most vocal about investigating that, right?
A militant transgender group has urged supporters to target Wes Streeting’s office as part of a direct action campaign.
In a guide distributed to activists, Bash Back instructs them to cause “direct harm” with “lasting effect”.
Borrowing the methods of direct action campaigns organised by pro-Palestinian and environmental activists, the group is urging supporters to identify “transphobic” targets and then “hit them repeatedly until they desist from their activities”.
Erm, doesn’t trans mean “not”?
But, anyway, if prominent politicians require protection why should this only be for those politicians in office? Why not also for Establishment outsiders?
Or have we already answered that question?
Andy Burnham is to press ahead with the deal that cedes the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, according to a senior Foreign Office official.
Robbie Bulloch, the director of the Foreign Office’s overseas territories and polar directorate, met Gavin Glover, the attorney general of Mauritius, last week and said that plans to give the archipelago to Mauritius were “unlikely to change”.
It is the first official confirmation that Mr Burnham will persevere with Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to hand control to Mauritius, an ally of China and Iran.
It can’t just be that Phillippe Sands is a buddy of Starmer’s.
What’s the real reason here?
In a critical passage of its advisory opinion the ICJ held that a state’s failure to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from GHG emissions – including through fossil fuel production, fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies – may constitute a violation of international law which is attributable to that state. From that perspective, any new fossil fuel exploration/exploitation (including in the North Sea) would be unlawful.
That’s a specifically green politics that has been smiuggled into international law. So, leave that court.
Legally speaking, the UK has a massive responsibility here. Governments are obliged to use every tool in their shed to stop major environmental harm. To actually do that, the UK needs to completely overhaul how it regulates big business. We are talking about new laws and rules that put a hard cap on the emissions private companies can pump into the atmosphere.
Really, just leave.
Not the answer she comes up with
Monica Feria-Tinta is a specialist public international law barrister at Twenty Essex; her book A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future, is published by Faber.
Surprise, eh?
What is society? It sounds like an obvious question, but modern economics rarely answers it well.
Too often economics starts with the idea of isolated individuals making rational choices in markets, as if society somehow emerges afterwards. I argue that this has the relationship completely the wrong way round.
We are not born as independent individuals. We become who we are through our relationships with other people. Families, education, communities, trust, language and shared knowledge all come before markets. Society creates the conditions in which individuals can flourish, not the other way around. In other words, society does not emerge from independent individuals. Independent individuals emerge from society.
Much too Borg for my liking in fact.
Well. OK. Can we test this?
So, govt creates and spends narrow money. Does the national debt equal the narrow money base?
Hmm, tt doesn’t? Oh, then the statement is not true, is it?
