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Wild camping may once again be allowed on Dartmoor, after the national park was granted permission to appeal against a decision to ban it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/hope-for-wild-camping-on-dartmoor-as-national-park-wins-right-to-appeal-ban

And while you are bashing around in the bracken watch out for ticks
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/05/hikers-urged-to-check-themselves-for-ticks-after-deadly-virus-found-in-uk

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/05/tick-borne-tbev-virus-how-to-protect-yourself-uk

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/04/kemi-badenoch-could-rewrite-law-to-allow-trans-exclusion-from-single-sex-spaces

After stuffing the EHRC with their own shills the Tories are now trying to rewrite the equalities act to remove legal protections for trans people. Apparently two of the Legal Directors have also recently resigned as the government have ignored their advice on the proposed changes.

Im not sure anything needs changing.

But (here we go) surely everyone is entitled to a safe space? These are, by design, exclusionary.

This is the problem when we strive to always please everyone, someone isnt going to be pleased, how do we decide who they should be putting first. How could we do that more reasonably?
(Not suggesting the Tories are being reasonable,god forbid, im asking a genuine question, what could we do instead?)

The Grauniad story appears to be a misreading of how the Equalities Act actually operates... Culture wars clickbait.

Jimmy Krankies husband has been nicked:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65187823

Obviously has nothing to do with why she stepped down.

Just looked back at the previous page.

I was very late with that one!

Jimmy Krankies

Thats SO funny!

Yeah sorry, not at my best today.

There've been two driverless taxi firms operating in San Francisco since last June. Nobody's died. But sometimes the taxis block the road by stopping when a human driver would have kept going. https://apnews.com/article/driverless-cars-robotaxis-waymo-cruise-tesla-684556379bb57425c8fdf35268e8046d?taid=642dc753892d450001001b75&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

She bought 1.5kg of mince, "out of necessity really".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65124883

GTFO

That packaging is shit, you have to re-mince it yourself to use it.

No-one needs to be buying mince these days

Precisely this

Tbf it does look more like a rectangular burger than mince

Lol at the comments that it looks to "medical" and meaty though, people not enjoying being confronted with the reality of what they are eating

You don't. I prod it a little more than the old packaging but it's basically the same.

What should I be using to make spag bol?

Exactly.

"Feels very medical - like I've just bought someone's kidney to cook at home," he added.

Yes, exactly.

Its definitely one of the trickier things to recreate - the best meat free substitute I've found is clearspring organic soya mince, which does the texture thing very well and then just rely on the other ingredients to bring flavour

clearspring organic soya mince

Might try some but not available from Sainsbury's :(

Veal mince and pancetta.

Lentils

Other shoppers did not mince their words when writing reviews on the Sainsbury's website.

Excellent

Yes, as PhilDAS says, lentils. I could dig out a recipe if you are interested

Too good!

[https://www.theguardian.com/environ

Those with higher levels of PFAS in their blood had 40% lower chance of conceiving within a year of trying