🔥 NEW: UK snubs EU over rejoining Erasmus exchange scheme… …but new polling finds a majority of the public support rejoining it, with only 15% against. What is this government thinking? Where’s the “change”?
A government spokesperson says the U.K. has ‘no plans’ to rejoin European program.
RIP Sven.
Their story is illegal in like 20 US states' school libraries www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/t...
Sphen, an Australian gentoo penguin who became an unlikely global symbol for equality, has died from apparent natural causes at age 11, the aquarium in Sydney where he resided said Thursday.
A former police officer who subjected three women to a campaign of controlling, violent, and sexual abuse has been jailed for almost four years. How TF has this man got less jail time than the Just Stop Oil protesters? The justice system needs a complete overhaul 😡 news.sky.com/story/ex-pol...
Christopher Ferguson, 31, repeatedly assaulted three women during a campaign of abuse that spanned 14 years. One victim fell down a flight of stairs during an attack, while another was choked to her i...
Just dawned on me that Bluesky has gone from Twitter 2007 to Twitter 2017 in under a year. Dorsey’s gonna fuck X.
In case useful to others, here is a starter pack of some UK journalists who tend to cover politics (who I've spotted on here): go.bsky.app/FyYJsot (With apologies to those missed/mischaracterised, and that I can't stop the list creator being on there)
Thames Water have a bloody nerve for even asking us to fund their ineptitude. www.theguardian.com/business/art...
Company faces scramble for funds after Ofwat says deficit is for managers and shareholders alone to deal with
Elon Musk has made Twitter as much of an open sewer as our privatised water companies have made our waterways and seas.
In which I rant about the plastic windows on pasta boxes: