The Starmer government scrapping something absolutely vital for rural communities to save only ÂŁ350m a year. That's pocket change to a government. Labour are more Tory than the Tories at this point.
The savings the government will make compared to the impact on commuters are utterly negligible. This is going to price people out of public transport and put more cars on the road; the exact opposite of what rural towns need
Rural routes at risk as the Chancellor scrambles to find savings
Haigh is right: P&O is a "rogue operator". Instead of the "blow to Starmer" headlines, why isn't the topic of discussion "we shouldn't take the money of exploiters human rights abusers"?
Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, said that P&O ÂFerries was a ârogue operatorâ and her comments overshadowed DP Worldâs London Gateway container port plans
It's depressing that we've been saying this for YEARS that "fairness in sports" and "transing the kids" were stalking horses, they knew all along that only a handful of kids ever got PBs, Joyce even admits it, but their end target has always been the actual elimination of trans people from public
transsafety.network/posts/joyce-... Sex Matters' director Helen Joyce reveals plans at conversion therapy conference to use puberty blocker rhetoric as a stepping stone to eliminate trans rights in public life.
Speech to conversion therapy lobby conference in Lisbon laid out plans to use puberty blockers as stepping stone to attack rights of trans adults
@evilhat.bsky.social hey, any chance you'll reprint the Fate Horror Toolkit someday? I have the dead tree versions of the Core rules, Space toolkit, System toolkit plus Fate of Cthulhu but can never find a book version of the Horror Toolkit.
10 years ago on this day my father passed away. Not a big fan of the holiday anyway, myself. But this year I'd really like to thank @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com for the kindness and the comfort they spread on this site. May I wish you both a very Happy New Year?
I've heard from unionized workers at Half Price Books that they're looking at a 1% pay increase offer, less than the company has stated if could afford, less than the increase in costs of living. Bookshop workers, like all workers, deserve to make a living wage. p2a.co/ua5jyxr
This piece sums up all of my feelings. It's beautifully written and ends with a prayer by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. Read the whole prayer in the post. May it be so. God, with all the desperation of our hearts we plead: may it be true that peace will yet come.
"This is a war extremists want. The hopelessness feeds their narrative that there can be no peace, that strength is the only way to security, that the other side (whichever side that is) has no respect for life. As one rabbi put it, this situation is terrible for everyone except terrible people."
Why this round of violence in Israel/Palestine is different.
"He's hard to pin down politically" is the new "That guy's a fucking Nazi."