Fundamental difference: Mauritius didn't invade. They struck a deal with the UK much like the one the Thatcher government had discussed with the Argentine government prior to the invasion
We also need to talk about how once these vehicles became common on the roads in the States that essentially created an arms race, where even drivers who had absolutely no desire to have a huge car felt having one was the only way to be safe whilst on roads chocker block with wannabe APCs
These vehicles are a risk to everyone, especially children. They are too large, lethally designed and have a huge environmental impact. Regulations in UK and EU have to urgently be updated to stop more of these being driven on our roads.
Dodge is launching a right-hand drive model of a car so tall that drivers canāt see young children in front of them
This smells strongly of careless reliance on machine translation.
Flying is the worst for this: I've paid for a ticket, playing adverts on the tannoy is an abuse of their position, as is plastering adverts all over vital information for journeys people have paid for
Fun* fact: the UK Embassy in Tokyo has negative imputed rent because we rent it from the imperial household for one chrysanthemum a year but if we give it up we have to restore it to it's original state as part of the C19th imperial gardens, which would cost millions * For a given definition of fun
Need to go to shops but embarrassed to do whilst still the blubbering mess this article has reduced me to
well I'm in floods of tears www.thetimes.com/article/5ecd...
When Mats Steen died from a muscle-wasting disorder, his parents believed that his life had been a tragically lonely one ā until hundreds of emails from strangers arrived. It turns out that heād found...
You can take issue with the activistsā actions, but don't for a minute suggest that their underlying motivation is rooted in misapprehension. It is not. Climate activists do, as a rule, appear to have a firmer grasp of climate science than most government ministers.
Gladwell's latest book includes the below conclusion about who we might target during pandemics (from: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... )
Not 100% onboard with the language of 'apartheid' but the point holds. Waiting for Palestinians to prove they can govern themselves or that a future Palestinian state wouldn't be a threat to Israel is both unjust and almost certainly self-defeating