The government wants to make it quicker and easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales.
Interesting gamble the government is taking here. Unusually the environmentalists are right to be cautious, SMRs have been designed since the 90s and not a one of them has ever come to anything.
Also not completely sure why we'd need it. By the governments own plans we can expect our wind power to jump from 10gw to 50gw by 2035, which would mean being 100% renewable powered for months at a time.
Which will make it very very expensive, the research I've seen recently says nations that manage that transition can expect electric price falls of a quarter to a half, and that Hinckley plant is already going to be selling at over twice the unit price of any other source. I would expect SMR plans to collapse for that reason by itself.
Its a very interesting question
The presumption is that they are front loading bad news so its all good news closer to elections. But I don't know if that will work if the Americans manage to cause to full blown trade war.
Why not ban Christmas and the colour blue while you are at it
Neighbours to be incentivised to report people who travel in Europe
Thames Water is hoping to secure an emergency cash injection or face runing out of money in weeks.
I'm only recently arrived here but already the tech stack seems significantly more stable
At time of writing the number of petitions over the lifetime of the system that reached Parliament and then led to law change or action stands at 0. Its a pointless PR exercise in looking like they care. The law on it doesn't even require it to enter the commons, merely to be debated in some back room for half an hour by 3 or 4 mps.
I did see that if you counted up EU stats as a single set of figures instead of country by country the EU would count as the 2nd greatest economy in the world and comfortably ahead of the third. Bet there would much more support for rejoining if that was widely known, it'd show how little chance there is even in principle of making international trader UK work well enough to offset the loss.
This kind of thing always leaves me wondering how stable China really is.
Not because painting dogs is some kind of threat to them but it speaks to real weak attitude to people being fucked over that stuff this blatant is not hard to find.
It makes me glad I have an exit path out of listening to Americans assuming everyone is American
I kind of always knew believing reddit was some kind of pure platform basically required being a stereotypical Californian but its declined so heavily in the last 10 years.
Its the number of clearly stupid replies you get now that really irritates me, from people who've very clearly not read or understood what you've said. It used to be a place where the average user seemed to be a PHD looking for cat pictures
I wrote that and now I'm imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.
That'd be a crazy move. He must know there is an entire wave of new social media emerging thats just poised to punish such a stupid move.
I don't know why I find Uncanny so compelling. I don't even believe in this stuff.
I do know now though that any account from anyone remotely tired is totally worthless though. And that you can manufacture ghost experiences just with a few speakers your victim cannot even hear.
Hasn't he also blamed the control centre being understaffed on immigrants / race (somehow)?
- Complete putting Thames Water into administration
- Place Thames Water under government control, set public benefit goals
- Wait for improvements in the data
- Pass law that any water company failing to exceed Thames Water performance will be merged with it
- Wait for the firms to strangle themselves with the rope you gave them
The way it looks to me right now - pressure mounts on practically every side, Labour popularity rises toward the election (its been said front loading unpopular stuff is deliberate), Tories start trying to distance themselves from Reform (to avoid becoming known America apologists for a start), relationship repair becomes a keystone of the 2029 - 2034 session.