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  • Ministers vow to tackle England’s ‘entrenched divides’ in A-level results

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  • I wonder if they are going to change the stupid system of pumping money into failing schools until the are "outstanding" and then slowly reduce funding because they obviously don't need it, until the school is failing again...

  • Europe Finally Embraces Air Conditioning as Heat Waves Hit Hard

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  • If you are getting a heat pump then your impact on the climate will probably be better than your current radiator configuration. Especially as more renewables are brought online.

  • Labour says firms will be penalised for late payments to suppliers

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  • Good!

  • Andrew Bailey blocks Rachel Reeves’s meeting with Revolut

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  • This is the point I don’t really get, if their licence is days away from issue anyway why would Reeves meeting with them be a problem?

    Because financial institutions, including the BoE have a lot more on the line, and need to keep reputational appearance even if politicians don't care because they will be out on the streets before the next election.

    What's Reeves hoping to gain from this, while making claims of "cutting red tape"? It sounds like simple political interference, and as such she can fuck off.

  • Andrew Bailey blocks Rachel Reeves’s meeting with Revolut

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  • Generally the BoE makes a lot of sense, and I don't see anything here that would change my position. I haven't seen whether Revolut has had their licence upgraded from limited yet, but that has to be due any day now that they've had their 1 year limited trial to prove operations.

    When you are dealing with peoples money, I don't want these things to get rushed, and Reeves saying things like

    Reeves has placed cutting red-tape on the financial services sector and other industries at the heart of her mission to turbocharge the UK’s faltering economy and has blamed over-cautious watchdogs for holding back growth.

    Financial services is doing great. Probably one of the best performing parts of the UK, why don't you concentrate on literally anything else, like taxing unearned income?

  • Andrew Bailey blocks Rachel Reeves’s meeting with Revolut

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  • There are a lot of Euro financial initiatives that the UK financial services drive and adopt, such as Open Banking and Open Finance.

    Don't mistake the UK being outside of the EU with Financial Services in the UK, they see big picture plans and generally ignore the smaller petty politics.

    In this case, as Wero gets adopted, it's in their best interests to support it otherwise there is a risk that customers would not be able to purchase when travelling and what's the point of adopting that risk when you could just support it?

  • What are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?

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  • Christopher Lee?

  • Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire

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  • There is the point where if the person had valid identification, and National Insurance, and was paid via HMRC, that the onus should be on notifying the business of a change of status. Whether that's the student or HMRC I don't know. They would notify the business on a change of required tax.

  • Unite votes to suspend Rayner's membership over bin strikes

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  • Its been ongoing in Birmingham for a long time.

    https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/birmingham-binmen-earn-up-45000-3924252

    There have been several scams over the decades, which put the council into bankruptcy. A Union isn't going to ever accept a potential paycut, so they are stuck.

    Waste collection doesn't want to be scheduled for the full 32 hours they are contracted so they can collect the overtime, and the council don't want to pay overtime for people working their normal hours. The only thing the council can do is cut the folks being paid the most, but the Union won't let that happen either.

    Just increase council tax in Birmingham and separate out the waste disposal as a line item so that the people can see where their money is going.

  • Metallica copyright strikes U.S. government

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  • Not even in the slightest. Metallica went far above and beyond everyone else hunting down little old ladies to sue.

    99% of bands didn't make money from album sales, which is what makes all the hand wrangling over Spotify funny. Musicians idolise a world that never really existed.

  • Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows

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  • There are 28 million families in the UK. [1]

    Your article implies there are 25 million houses and 1 million is empty. [2]

    The empty houses in the photos are not suitable for living in and should be condemned if they haven't already. Rebuilding a mid-terrace house is not simple and even after blow all of that we managed 1 million out of the 4 million required to at least have one home per family. That sounds like a terrible plan to work on the most expensive work and ultimately not make a dent in the issue.

    [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/bulletins/familiesandhouseholds/2023#%3A%7E%3Atext=There+were+28.4+million+households%2C-parent+family+%2811%25%29.

    [2] https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/why-empty-homes-matter

  • MPs to vote on foreign ownership of newspapers after Lib Dem rebellion

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  • Once again, LibDems giving the sane point of view.

  • X11 forked, Denmark moves to Linux, Android ROMs are in trouble: Linux & Open Source News [@6m12s]

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  • An unstable misogynist, anti-vaxxer making racist statements decides to make their own version of X11. With hookers and blackjack.

    https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/06/06/msg032747.html

    I wouldn't waste your time even reporting on it. All their submitted patches to X11 were just refactoring, and even then they managed to break tests and fail to compile.

  • Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End

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  • Keir Starmer says migrants should learn English to integrate. Is he being fair?

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  • Its only an imaginary standard because its not been set further than "we should require people to learn some English".

    We have plently of standards in schools throughout the so thats not the hard part.

    Now its not anything I would touch because of the level of racists that attach themselves to this "issue".

    Which turned out to be not very big.

    Additionally, 1.5% (880,000) could not speak English well, and a small percentage (0.3%, 161,000) of the overall population could not speak English at all.

    https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/language/bulletins/languageenglandandwales/census2021#%3A%7E%3Atext=Additionally%2C+1.5%25+%28880%2C000%29%2Cnot+speak+English+at+all.

    161k people don't speak English? That sounds like a solvable problem, as thats not very many at all. The question would be how to identify them, and help them? My personal experience is generally elderly parents who have been brought here by someone acting as a carer, which puts it back firmly in "unsolvable". If they haven't already learnt it, and aren't necessarily here though choice, its going to be a challenge.

    Knowing our current government though, it would probably be by copying Trump and sending the military door to door to ask everyone a simple English language puzzle.

  • Ban 'no ball games' signs to get children off devices, play experts say

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  • Citation for a kid in the UK getting shot by the police for kicking a ball at a "no ball games" sign please.

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  • Weren't you in power over those 10 years?

    Surely you should have done something about it rather than waiting until now to complain.

  • Those were the days

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  • I didn't ever watch Jem.

    Or that troll with the heart ears so I don't remember the name offhand.

  • Those were the days

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  • She-ra in the top left. In front is a gummy bear (its still on Disney+), Rainbow Bright in the middle, a carebear to the left and Strawberry Shortcake on the right of the MLP.

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    Why does Britain feel so poor?

    martinrobbins.substack.com /p/von-6-why-does-britain-feel-so-poor
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    Question

    Should we create a mega thread for show recommendations?

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    Puy du Fou scopes opinion and reveals proposed location

    www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk /news/24806864.puy-du-fou-scopes-opinion-reveals-proposed-location/
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    Dishwasher tablets that don't come with loads of plastic?

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    Newbury: Firearms seized from suspected gun factory - BBC News

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c2exwjgjzyeo
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    Inside UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage — ProPublica

    www.propublica.org /article/unitedhealth-mental-health-care-denied-illegal-algorithm
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    Typhoo Tea to be rescued by vape maker for £10m - BBC News

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cre7dxdpj04o
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    World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News

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    Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport

    www.theguardian.com /sport/2024/oct/14/cheating-alleged-after-mens-world-conker-champion-found-with-steel-chestnut
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    What are your red flags for job interviews?

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    What sort of outside lights would you call this?

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    Ideas for dealing with home cleaning refillables?

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    They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable

    www.theguardian.com /money/article/2024/aug/12/they-encouraged-us-to-insulate-our-home-now-its-unmortgageable
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    Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness

    www.ft.com /content/24117a03-37c2-424a-97ed-6a5292f9e92e
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    Is there any better example of a food that doesn't deserve to exist?

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    Plex for books?

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    Getaway vehicle stolen while suspects rob business

    archive.ph /MRK4O
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    Does anyone else find the water companies to be unreasonable with their ghosting for 6 months, then nagging daily if you haven't paid them within a week?

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    Britain is a developing country

    www.sambowman.co /p/britain-is-a-developing-country
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    Things for teens in Manchester