In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t

Until there’s independent evidence otherwise I’m going to assume either fudged maintenance reports or the switch designer at boeing is about to commit suicide by shooting themself in the back of the head hours before talking to the press.

The UK has spending limits which mitigates that. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-spending-and-pre-poll-donations-and-loans-uk-parliamentary-general-election/spending-limit

Ftfy

You haven’t seen Britain since 1490?

I totally agrree and everything you’ve said is why I think they’d push for it to not get labeled as American.

Not if part of the agreement is to ban country of origin labeling

This hit the news a few years ago. Basically, if it says “blend of EU and non EU honey” it’s for Chinese sugar water in it.

Oh I see. Yes, maybe they’ve realised that getting seen like that isn’t helping, especially as they’ve been doing a lot to do with workers rights which clearly is going unnoticed if you think their “whole deal” has been cutting essential services and austerity. (though I’d argue that it’s not essential for people like my dad who’s on a final salary pension of about £35k plus his state pension to receive winter fuel allowance)

Absolutely this.

Themes water should have been allowed to go bust so the government could buy it back super cheap.

I’m glad at least it looks like the threat of them forcing them not to take bonuses will be making them voluntarily not take them. Plus the whole personal liability for pollution thing so that the execs can end up with prison time if they don’t get their act together.

I’m lost now. Labour are economically left of centre (though arguably have been drifting more right) they’re all for nationalisation. It’s the conservatives (right of centre though moving further right recently and just a bit unhinged lately) that want everything privatised.

Fuck.

It’s also really hard for children to buy booze. Having it legal and regulated stops kids getting it and stops the illegal activities surrounding it AND brings in tax revenue.

With illegal drings you end up with children and vulnerable people falling victim of county lines and cuckooing.

https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/19/cuckooing-devastating-crime-hiding-plain-sight-22926126/

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/drug-trafficking/county-lines

Does it? Or does it just make hard drugs more dangerous and drive up multiple related crimes (burglary, shop lifting, mugging, cocoing, county lines etc) and stigmatise people with addiction issues stopping them from being able to seek help?

Is “ghosts” really the most sensitive word for someone who’s been on deaths door for a while now?

Edit - er. Well. Just seen today’s news.

The problem is he’s a symptom of broader socialtal issues. Someone else will just rise to fill his place unless we work to address what caused him prominence.

🖕

Now you know how us British retainers feel when people went on that we all wanted to leave the EU.

Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate

Fixed the title. It’s hard to worry about the existential potentially world ending crisis of climate change (especially as we’re told again and again as individuals there’s not much we can do) or about the totally made up issues that are culture wars more than whether you’re going to be able to afford to keep the lights on.

Fuck sake, I thought we’d left this argument back in 99.

But does that outweigh the amount of days lost from people taking sick days?

Oh sorry America. The civilised world would be making that calculation though.

I feel that bird flu is worse in the UK than the media are generally reporting. I work for one of the majority supermarkets and were running at about 75% fulfilment from our suppliers for eggs.