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Both the Green Party and the RSPB have voiced concerns about what this will mean for Britain.

Here’s what Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said:

"Starmer’s pledge to investors that he will “cut red tape” is a tired cliché that, in practice, too often means harming environmental standards and workers’ rights. We’ve had fourteen years of successive Conservative governments promising to “cut red tape,” and all we have to show for it is a flatlining economy and falling living standards.

If Starmer is serious about attracting investment to the UK, he will need a bolder approach that delivers on the “change” he promised in his election campaign. He could start by re-evaluating our relationship with our biggest trading partner, the European Union.”

And RSPB chief executive Beccy Speight:

"An unsettling speech from the PM this morning for those who love and value nature. Deregulation done in the wrong way is effectively dropping standards, at a time when the natural world desperately needs better protection. It’s a short-sighted tactic that could have ramifications for us all in years to come, undermining our long term prosperity - better methods, such as nature-friendly planning, would give businesses the certainty they need.

We support growth and we support the badly-needed energy transition, but not at the expense of our precious wildlife and wild places.

His very own secretary of state [Steve Reed] said recently that “nature is dying” – uncontrolled deregulation is tantamount to hammering the final nail into its coffin."

A spokesman for Kemi Badenoch said it would be “wrong to infer any prejudice” from the report and that it was “essential that we are able to talk about these issues without the media deliberately misleading their readers for the sake of easy headlines”.

They’re right, it’d be wrong to infer something so explicit.

That’s because Starmer made getting stuff done in the first hundred days a major part of his campaign.

What do you mean by handwriting features? I’ve played around with Write a bit and it has some cool features (I really like the ability to make a series of stokes a link) but I wouldn’t call them handwriting features.

That’s what the author says IANA will do based on the precedent of .yu, but IANA hasn’t actually said what they’ll do yet.

I doubt they’ll kill the domain outright, there’s too many long established websites using it and too much money behind those domains. It helps that the Chagos Island transfer is a lot less messy than the breakup of Yugoslavia (hopefully at least as it hasn’t actually happened yet).

This looks a lot like the government trying to get ahead of a story, because I’ve never heard anyone accuse him of having a women problem (well, anyone credible, Duffield doesn’t count).

handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications

To be fair, we have it quite good in this regard between Xournalpp and Rnote. Certainly areas where we only have worse options.

I enjoyed Howard Jacobson’s piece in today’s Observer on one specific form of it that’s found a new prevalence

This is a bad article that conflates wanting Israel to kill less children with antisemitism.

Here we were again, the same merciless infanticides inscribed in the imaginations of medieval Christians. Only this time, instead of operating on the midnight streets of Lincoln and Norwich, they target Palestinian schools, the paediatric wards of hospitals, the tiny fragile bodies of children themselves. Even when there are other explanations for the devastation, no one really believes them. Reporters whose reports are proved wrong see no reason to apologise. No amendment of their calumnies. What is there to apologise for? It could have been true.

The difference is that Israel has bombed schools and hospitals, this conflation of the proven actions of Israel with medieval pogroms is frankly vile. Would have been nice if he could’ve provided an example of the ‘reporters proven wrong’, because in context he seems to be implying that Israel’s targeting of schools and hospitals is the thing that’s been proven wrong, which would be weird given that Israel itself will tell you it’s targeting schools.

Ask how Israel is able to target innocent children with such deadly accuracy and no one can tell you. Ask why they would want to target innocent children and make themselves despised among the nations of the Earth and no one can tell you that either.

I’ve yet to see any journalist claim that Israel is deliberately targeting children.

Only compare reporting from Gaza with reporting from Ukraine. Bombs have fallen there, too, but how often is the burial of Ukrainian children the lead story?

Because Russia has killed less children, 2,000 according to UNICEF compared to the 12,000 that have been killed in Gaza despite the Ukraine war starting in 2022. I don’t think this is because Russia a more moral actor, but Israel clearly isn’t trying to avoid child casualties.

Yeah, I can imagine watching the west endlessly debate how you’re allowed to defend your country is quite frustrating when Israel is given carte blanche to start a regional conflict.

I did read it, I just think it demonstrates the same problem as Stramer’s freebies, rich people pushing money around in policies to buy influence.

In her resignation letter, published by the Sunday Times, external, the Canterbury MP lambasts the prime minister for accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping the winter fuel payment and keeping the two-child benefit cap.

Very funny thing for someone who accepted a £10k private donation and didn’t vote on the winter fuel payment to say. Shouldn’t expect moral consistency from a transphobe.

Do my eyes deceive me or is this good news? From the Treasury???

One thing these kinds of articles that are designed to stoke generational conflicts never mention is that rich people live longer. Like, obviously older people would be proportionally richer, the poorer people from that generation are dead. Also, friendly reminder, all this stoking of generational conflicts does is distract us from the real divide in society.

This is the same Blackstone that spent half a billion in June on build-to-rent houses.

Making the public foot the bill for decades of under-investment as these companies paid out £10s of bns in dividends and continuing on with the failure of privatisation.

I’ve linked to them before and my interpretation of ‘reputable news source’ is one that at least tries to be reliable. So as long as they don’t publish outright disinformation, stuff like the Daily Mail or the Grayzone, then you should be fine. I trust Wikipedia’s Reliable sources page for stuff like this.

Are you really surprised this Labour party would have unscrupulous donations?