Glothy

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There's no substitute for having the real fossil. If we're going to do any sort of study, the number one thing is we need to understand the anatomy. We need to know what's real," Prof Maidment explains.
London is the worst affected part of the UK for the extreme heat that is becoming our new normal. Billions of pounds will need to be spent to make the city liveable in the coming decades, or else school closures and hospitals sweltering with failed aircon will become an annual blight. So who’s going to pay for it? And for once, should the capital be receiving a bailout from central government to cope with its unique heat island situation, rather than cross subsidising the rest of the country?
Dyan Sheldon. A Bad Place for a Bus Stop
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The war in the Middle East has benefited Russia, boosting its revenues through higher energy prices and increased demand for its oil and gas after the U.S. temporarily lifted global sanctions on Russian oil purchases. The waiver expired on April 11.
The apparently non-existent electrician who signed the safety checks gave their address on the paperwork as an empty shop unit in Greenwich. That supposed headquarters is located directly opposite the constituency office of housing minister Matthew Pennycook – the same man tasked by Keir Starmer with getting answers from Criterion about how it has been treating tenants. London Centric first noticed the issue while touring flats with local councillor Stuart Neaverson, as Criterion tenants facing a “mass eviction” repeatedly raised questions about the legitimacy of the safety checks on their buildings. As we pieced it together, we realised that flat after flat, in different Criterion-owned buildings across London, had all been issued with identical safety paperwork that bore no relation to their actual home.
When Watson was 10, his grandmother, a formidable pioneer who began riding a red Harley-Davidson at the age of 72, decided that, with their fathers absent because of the war, he and his friends were becoming unruly. She loaded a wagon with a dozen of the most turbulent boys, drove them to a one-room driftwood shack on a beach, miles from the nearest road, and left them to fend for themselves for a month among the leopards, baboons, buffalo and elephants. Avoiding a descent into Lord of the Flies anarchy, they thrived, and the ritual was repeated every summer. He described the experience as “a glimpse of the last of the best of times to be young”.
POV: You’ve just been let down last minute by someone you were supposed to go for a bottomless mimosas brunch with. You’re in a state of mental disarray and in a moment of impulse, you call the number of that bloke who did that cracking ‘man with a van’ ad a couple weeks back. I bowl up and open the passenger door of the van for you. You get in and say “Wow, I’ve never been this high up in a vehicle before.” “You’ll love this then.” I reply. I press a button on the dash and my tyres expand their diameter ten fold. We get to the boozy brunch establishment and find our seat. “Just orange juice for me, thanks”, I say with calm conviction. I watch you drink 14 mimosas and then we go antique shopping. You see this beautiful Venetian dresser for half of current market value.
Four gold sovereigns each featuring a different regents head.
"The UK has a security alliance with the USA, that has been the bedrock of the international order, it’s been hugely important.” “But trying to suck up to Trump, which involves sucking up to Silicon Valley... Totally disastrous deals with Silicon Valley companies in which we're bringing their software into the critical functions of how the UK state operates. "We have put ourselves in a vassal of complete surrender…. at this moment where you have the US threatening to invade a NATO country, Greenland, which would put the whole of Europe in conflict with another NATO member" "We are embedding this Labour government's ally, Palantir, in the heart of our own military infrastructure" "It's total madness" "What the founder of Palantir, Peter Thiel, does not believe in, is democracy. That is clear from his own statements" Journalist Carole Cadwalladr, whose groundbreaking work exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal, on the UK Government embedding the USA into our own military infrastructure. (credit: @implausibleblog / @ZackPolanski)
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Huxley outlined several major concerns: the difficulties and dangers of world overpopulation; the tendency towards distinctly hierarchical social organisation; the crucial importance of evaluating the use of technology in mass societies susceptible to persuasion; the tendency to promote modern politicians to a naive public as well-marketed commodities.[62] In a December 1962 letter to brother Julian, summarizing a paper he had presented in Santa Barbara, he wrote, "What I said was that if we didn't pretty quickly start thinking of human problems in ecological terms rather than in terms of power politics we should very soon be in a bad way
Anita Brookner, The Next Big Thing
⚠️ Safety alert: Puffin has paused sales of its children’s Spy Dog, Spy Pups and Spy Cat series after discovering that a website printed in some editions now redirects to adult content with no age verification. The link, originally used to promote the books and characters, has been taken over by an unrelated third party. 📚 Puffin is contacting schools and local authorities and has urged libraries to remove the books from shelves. 🏠 Families are advised to check copies at home and ensure children do not visit the web address listed in the book. If needed, you can cover the printed link with a permanent marker to prevent accidental access. The issue affects some editions across the series.
Nigel Farage behind a microphone with a face like an angry squawking monkey