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  • This Labour budget is austerity by another name | Letters

  • This is patently absurd. Labour already inherited the highest tax burden in 70 years from the Conservatives - this budget increases the tax burden by a further £40bn to fund extra spending. Government borrowing is also going to increase by an average of £32bn a year for the next five years due to this budget.

    If this is what they call austerity, I'd hate to see what these people think government largesse looks like...

  • NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives

  • Will the clocks still go back and forward an hour to help the farmers get up early though?

  • West Ham owner says non-dom crackdown is driving wealthy from the UK

  • ‘Blue plaque’ at Walthamstow Tesco honours lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss

  • I'm still annoyed that the Daily Star keeps getting credit for this joke.

    The joke about Truss's premiership having the shelf life of a lettuce was from the Economist. And it wasn't about the 49 days she was PM - it was referencing the seven days or so that Truss was actually in the driving seat, once you take away the mourning period around the Queen's death when nothing could happen, and then the period after the mini-budget when Jeremy Hunt and the grown-ups took charge.

    What the Star did was just riff on the Economist's joke by setting up a webcam.

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    Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance

    www.theguardian.com /world/2024/sep/29/america-executions-death-penalty

  • Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia

  • A recent migrant, identifying himself as 'Nigel F from Clacton', told reporters he was thrilled by his new life in Russia and the prospect of not having to see brown people at the shops or gay people on TV anymore.

  • Worker sacked after calling customer 'twat' in email mix-up awarded £5k

  • But the tribunal heard neither Ms Jones nor the customer was interviewed, no notes were produced by Mrs Smith and no written account of the decision was made.

    [...]

    The judge said: "The disciplinary process and the dismissal were a sham designed to placate the customer.

    What I know about HR is that the employer actually has a tonne of leeway to get rid of people as long as they can demonstrate they have followed a proper process with an audit trail.

    The reason this person was fired that's mentioned in the headline (which I think isn't unreasonable - of course you can't call the customer a twat!) is kind of irrelevant here, it's the fact the employer didn't run a true process to back up the decision that has got them.

  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Republicans step up effort to change Nebraska voting rules to help Trump

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/sep/21/republicans-nebraska-trump-electoral-college
  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    BREAKING: Email address linked to Tim Walz found on hardcore plumbing advice forum

    x.com /mynamehear/status/1836946448287445286
  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    South Carolina executes first man in 13 years despite new evidence of innocence

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/sep/20/south-carolina-death-row-prisoner-execution

  • ‘I want them all crushed’: the council poised to ban ‘dangerous’ Lime bikes

  • but leaving them anywhere helps everyone

    Leaving them anywhere is the whole problem. My neighbour is in his 70s and uses a mobility scooter. I see parents having to detour their pushchairs onto the road to get around them. People are literally leaving these bikes lying horizontal across the pavement!

  • ‘I want them all crushed’: the council poised to ban ‘dangerous’ Lime bikes

  • This isn't a problem with bikes that individuals own. This isn't a problem with the Santander bikes either. This is a specific problem with Lime bikes and the likes, because the Lime bike system is set up to encourage people to dump their bikes anywhere and Lime does nothing to discourage this. Lime is a multi-million pound private enterprise that is profiting on what is effectively the littering of our public spaces.

    Personally I'd favour using punitive market-based mechanisms to solve this - fine Lime £100 or £200 for every mis-parked bike, which would align their incentives with society's and quickly lead them to being a lot more discerning about who they rent their bikes out to and how they enforce against misuse of the bikes. But I suspect this would destroy their business model anyway - the overwhelming majority of Lime bikes I see out and about are not parked in an orderly way, so what you're calling a public disorder problem must account for the vast majority of their customer base - it's a business model set up to cater to hooligans. So maybe just banning the product outright is the better option. The Santander bikes are very widely available for anyone who needs them and they operate with a system that overwhelmingly enforces orderly parking.

  • ‘I want them all crushed’: the council poised to ban ‘dangerous’ Lime bikes

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    ‘I want them all crushed’: the council poised to ban ‘dangerous’ Lime bikes

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/sep/15/i-want-them-all-crushed-the-council-poised-to-ban-dangerous-lime-bikes
  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Fewer than one in five UK voters are ‘hard nimbys’, finds survey

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2024/sep/15/fewer-than-one-in-five-uk-voters-are-hard-nimbys-finds-survey

  • "I'll say this for him, he's consistent."

  • 'Ah, Kamala, my old friend. Do you know the MAGA proverb that tells us cats and dogs are a dish that is best served cold? It is very cold in space.'

  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2024/sep/12/trump-russia-putin-fbi
  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Oasis fans are angry but dynamic pricing benefits consumers too

    www.theguardian.com /business/article/2024/sep/08/oasis-fans-angry-dynamic-pricing-benefits-consumers

  • Voters beginning to think Conservatives are ‘weird’, research suggests

  • Ed maxed out on 'centrist fun uncle' energy. Genuinely one of the most effective 3rd party campaigns I've seen in British politics - hence resulting in the largest number of 3rd party MPs in a century.

  • It's official, Lime bikes are Awesome!

  • They can clearly enforce that more

    Or, you know, at all...

    I see far more Lime bikes sitting in the middle of the pavement than I do parked appropriately. Lime clearly has no incentive to punish bad parkers as all it does is lose them business for zero benefit.

    The way to make the cost-benefit analysis work - and therefore to make Lime enforce against bad parkers - is for Lime to face a cost when their riders park badly. Local councils should just drive a van round and impound any Lime bikes thrown in the middle of the pavement and charge Lime £200 a pop to recover them - that would quickly get them to stop renting bikes out to hooligans.

  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Tory MP Esther McVey criticised for 'repugnant' smoking ban post

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c703nlle72wo
  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Why Harris campaign is fighting for unmuted debate mics

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c1w79w380dwo
  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    'State Line' - The Lincoln Project

  • Downing Street officials draw up plans for announcing death of Larry the cat in similar manner to Queen Elizabeth II

  • Imagine the queue to see Larry lying in state.

  • Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement

  • Yes - that was the next sentence I wrote?

  • Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement

  • In 2017 his name was mentioned as a visionary comparable to the Wright Brothers and Zefram Cochrane (inventor of the warp drive) on a Star Trek episode set in the 2250s. It felt at the time that this line risked dating the episode but I don't think anyone could have expected just how much he would go on trash his own reputation.

    The only thing that saves this line is that we found out a few episodes later that the character who spoke it secretly came from the Mirror Universe - where he grew up Musk's embrace of Nazism was probably seen as a virtue.

  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Kamala Harris remembers the consumer cost of worker-centred tariffs

    www.ft.com /content/ef9a1221-6ae1-4ea1-9b3c-07cbcbc6c72c

  • Shropshire residents hit out at plans for penis-shaped estate

  • NIMBYs' excuses are becoming more and more elaborate.

  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Ex-Nikki Haley voters rally behind Kamala Harris: ‘I picked the side that had the least issues’

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/article/2024/aug/20/nikki-haley-voters-for-kamala-harris
  • Neoliberal @lemmy.world
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    Exclusive: Half The Country Believes Nigel Farage Is 'Responsible' For The Riots

    www.huffingtonpost.co.uk /entry/exclusive-half-the-country-believes-nigel-farage-is-responsible-for-the-riots_uk_66bf6523e4b0d9d5eb7dc499

  • Managers With the Most Premier League Title Wins

  • Sky invented football in 1992.

  • Tommy Robinson’s passport may be invalid, say Irish parliamentarians

  • Never heard of him. Do you mean Stephen Yaxley-Lennon?

  • ‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank

  • I was disagreeing with you perpetuating the lump of labour fallacy that one can be anti-immigrant for pro-worker reasons.

    When nativists use this argument, it's usually shit-stirrers deliberately trying to pit people against each other. They rely on the fact that the average person probably hasn't taken the time to conduct a literature review of the economic studies of immigration, but might be able to be seduced by a superficially easy argument that all their ills can be blamed on some minority and drawing on some cherry-picked anecdotes.

    The reality of immigration bears little relation to the skewed narrative the nativists are trying to sell. Irregular migration represents only a tiny fraction of UK immigration. Immigrants are no more likely to commit crime than natives. Immigration grows the economy and has little or no effect on jobs and wages. Immigrants are net contributors to the NHS and public services. Once you knock away all the far-right's factual lies, it's hard to find the nugget of a 'legitimate' reason why people might consider immigration to be one of the major 'problems' facing this country that doesn't start and end with xenophobia.