Anyway it looks like UK exotic/wild pet laws are wildly more permissive than I had ever imagined, with a schedule of 'dangerous wild animals' that goes through and lists everything you would need a license to keep, and just a list of ~30 invasive alien species that you can't have as pets at all*.

Barb has upgraded its pre-campaign planning tool, enabling advertisers and media agencies to plan campaigns on a wide range of streaming services that now includes discovery+ and Netflix. #Advertising#BigData#DigitalTV#Streaming#UK

England should set a target of increasing participation in tertiary education to 70 per cent by 2040, according to Universities UK #EduSky#highered

Target 70 per cent tertiary participation, says UUK blueprint

Vision for future direction of English sector calls for fees to be indexed to inflation and an increase in teaching grants

There was a rare urgent zoologist call in a group chat this morning to ID a snake found at someone's work (four of us IDed it the same way as a yellow/Paraguayan anaconda) and anyway today I am in trouble.

Puis, énorme coup de cœur pour ce groupe UK depuis que je les ai découverts il y a des années : Submotion Orchestra, ici avec la chanson Angel eyes. Si vous aimez l’electro trip-hop ambiante avec et sans vocals, vous ne DEVEZ PAS passer à côté de groupe ! m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dl-...

Submotion Orchestra - Angel Eyes

YouTube video by Submotion Orchestra

The European experience shows that assuming the young will always be progressive might backfire. If the current government fails to improve the prospects on wages and housing, and the UK right discover that retirees aren't the only group they can start promising freebies for, it may happen here too.

So LNG and similar were sort of trendy,-newish power sources in the US in the 2000s... But in the UK almost everyone's heating, cooking etc has been cheap gas powered since the 90s. The handful of remaining coal places were always relics for niche use cases.

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From Leftfoot Forward. "The UK regulatory system is an expensive farce. There is a plethora of regulatory bodies, supposedly regulating relationships between citizens and powerful economic interests and protecting people from abusive practices" leftfootforward.org/2024/09/why-...

Why the UK’s regulatory system is an expensive farce

Accountants, lawyers and financial services experts are central to the flow of dirty money.