There’s plenty he can do. For starters, there are lots of issues with the UK’s privatised water infrastructure. This could either be brought back into public ownership, or the government could put more pressure on these companies to maintain the infrastructure to address all the leaks. Also the last major dam built in the UK was back in 1975, so the government could invest in new dam projects.

I would rewrite this one as, “if you want to reduce your impact, reduce the amount of animal products you eat, including meat, eggs, and dairy.”

Whilst you’ve said you’ll never become a vegan, do you disagree with this statement? Whilst tackling climate change is a collective problem, and not one solved through individual lifestyle choices, it needs to be acknowledged that all animal products have a carbon footprint

Well back then there wasn’t as many people, and industrial farming didn’t exist. Until the latter occurred, meat was considered a luxury.

I stumbled upon this article, after George Monbiot posted about it:

It’s a point I’ve been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet

Back in May, Burnham was criticised by Labour MPs for planning to appear at an event alongside the Greens, so you would hope that he was more amenable to forming a left-wing alliance.

Have you got a quote or reference for this?

That is surprising given that they do have past and present trans contributors, including Shon Faye, Gemma Stone, and Helena NoJusticeMTG.

This was a leadership challenge that happened within Labour, the current ruling party. The showdown between Binface and Farage is for the Clacton by-election.

Presumably this means Ed Miliband is gone.

Ed Miliband has been named foreign secretary in Andy Burnham’s new cabinet, so hopefully this means Burnham hasn’t made a decision on Rosebank.

Me too except with the Polar Grit X. Recently I’ve also started exporting the sessions from Polar Flow, and manually uploading them to FitPub, a federated Strava alternative.

The project is only profitable for Equinor because the UK taxpayers would shoulder almost all of Rosebank’s development cost.

That is a good point, but it takes more than Clacton to win a general election.

I was curious to see if Australia has such laws, and I was surprised to learn that according to Safe Work Australia that there isn’t a temperature where people have to stop working:

No. A single ‘stop work’ temperature can’t account for all the factors that make working in heat hazardous

Farage framed this by-election as the “people versus the establishment”, however, all the other parties consider this by-election to be a farce.

The comedic candidate has pledged to make corners in football properly refereed, end subsidy for food and drink in parliament, conscript people who play loud music on public transport and force cyclists who break the highway code to ride unicycles instead.

I could definitely get behind these policies.

It was an accident and not intended to cause offence.

It did occur to me after I posted it. 😅

@steveroyle@biologists.social I agree 100%! I’d love to run the majors, particularly London, but these days I find myself loving the smaller races, and that’s where I’ve been getting my PBs. However, a fond memory I do have of running bigger races - Valencia, Berlin, and Amsterdam - is that a whole group of us would run it, and celebrate afterwards.

This is all true, and Ash Sarkar even calls herself a communist. However, I’d rather my news outlets wore their politics on their sleeve, than trying to hide behind supposed “impartiality”. Are there even any neutral news outlets?

What is that supposed to mean? Most of the time, people vote up Novara Media articles. However, I acknowledge this is an exception to that.