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The perfect "everybody is unhappy" solution :)

https://splash247.com/first-co2-storage-in-the-danish-north-sea/

BBC reporting HS2 to be delayed (indefinitely) in the North. Had some mates much more in-the-know express their doubts a couple of years ago that it would get north of Birmingham at all. I thought they were just being cynical...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64901985

Something, something, levelling up the North, blah, blah

Quite

https://twitter.com/Imposter_Edits/status/1633788527472148483

Republican Governor Randy McNally from here in Tennessee has been a
part of the attack on LGBT rights and drag show bans. His activity on
Instagram tells a very different story though.

In a statement to The Daily Beast, McNally spokesman Adam Kleinheider
insisted that McNally is just a “prolific social media commenter” who
has “no intention of stopping” his posts.

“Trying to imply something sinister or inappropriate about a
great-grandfather’s use of social media says more about the mind of
the left-wing operative making the implication than it does about
Randy McNally,” the statement read. “As anyone in Tennessee politics
knows, Lt. Governor McNally is a prolific social media commenter. He
takes great pains to view every post he can and frequently posts
encouraging things to many of his followers. Does he always use the
proper emoji at the proper time? Maybe not.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-drag-tennessee-lt-guv-really-loves-this-lgbtq-mans-thirst-traps?ref=scroll

Blimey, didn't realise inflation had got that bad

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Also, perhaps Adidas could, you know, just give those shoes away free to people who actually need them, making the shoe essentially worthless to any collectors

Gospel oak to Birmingham? That's gonna be a hell of a ride

I’ll take them.

Fuck the British government

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/09/siyabonga-twala-father-stranded-in-turkey-home-office-limbo

After leaving prison, he had trained as a heavy goods vehicle driver and had a steady driving job that gave him Friday afternoons off, allowing him to collect his son from school to stay for the weekend. Now he has lost his job, as well as his home, a rented bungalow near Wrexham surrounded by farmland that his son loved to run around in.

This is the whole aim of prisoner reform. He fucked up, did his time (I assume he was a good inmate because he was let out early) trained, found a job and led a normal life. Now they have destroyed that stable life he had started to rebuild.

+1 to fuck the British government.

And also just for some cannabis nonsense.

will they detain Gove next time he is flying back because he did cocaine in the past and admitted it?

I had to read the whole HS2 business case once and I've checked back I remembered right.
70% of the benefit of the economic case in 2013 was based on faster business travel and face to face meetings that COVID has absolutely destroyed.

Add to that the time saving has been reduced anyway because the trains have to crawl into and out of central London (if they actually go there)...

What a complete shambles.

Imagine if that money was invested in improving railway infrastructure across the country.

People might actually be able to cross the Pennines by train reliably.

Imagine if that money was invested in improving railway infrastructure across the country.

Exactly how the conversation went that led to my mates saying it wouldn't get beyond Brum.

Next HS2 news story to be friends of Tories buying back all the compulsory purchased houses on the cheap.

How much countryside has been fucked already because of it? That's inexcusable

Or now being allowed to build on land nearby that has lost protections, if they don't want to be quite so overt about it.

It was based upon there being no reliable wifi connection for rail users.
The Chiltern Line had already pioneered wifi, which is now ubiquitous for inter city services.