Lawyers for the Tates said the brothers had offered to be interviewed by Bedfordshire police in Romania and had undertaken to give up £20,000 each if they revealed the names of their accusers in the UK.

They didn’t just try to get the names, they tried to bribe the police - with relative pocket change - for the names.

How can they act when they’re on holiday?

I mean if you’re going to have an ambassador to Trump, someone who was also friends with Epstein almost sounds appropriate…

The waste is throwing in the towel less than halfway through over nothing.

The article spends an awful lot of time talking about the government and pretty much glosses over the media.

The government responds to public interest, if there is more public interest on a topic the government will spend more time addressing it.

Public interest is by and large driven by the media (and even when it’s not it often appears to be so).

The problem here is that the media is not covering this widely enough. This is perhaps understandable with privately owned media, who have their own vested interests, but I think the bigger question is why state-funded news organisations aren’t better at picking this up. That is a root cause and political issue.

Did you notice that they said no reputable international economists actually say that?

But you’re right to call out the accusatory tone of @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s comment, that did kind of spoil an otherwise very informative post.

I actually kind of think Cameron introducing austerity may have been worse, overall, over time. Brexit was a fumble, but austerity was malicious.

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I’m just trying to imagine what kind of holiday £300k might buy…

I get Nick Clegg vibes from Burnham tbh (similar to Zack Polanski of the Green Party), it feels like it’s only a matter of time before he betrays everyone who buys into his words.

The fact that Wes Streeting has put his hat in with Burnham all but confirms it.

Murdoch says we need a new PM so…

Rule 34. And cemented by Rule 35.

It used to be the case that the US formally didn’t allow dual nationality, but other nations didn’t mind if you had US nationality as well as theirs. So many people were just not telling the US about their second nationality that the US got rid of that rule maybe 15 or so years ago.

How is this an issue?? You just use your UK passport when travelling to the UK, and your EU passport when travelling to the EU. Just as anyone normally would - you go through the shortest queue you’re entiteled to use.

If you’re a dual national, you already have two passports. Certainly you at least have an entitlement to them.

It is “the” lol. Taking a piss means going to the toilet, taking the piss is taking the mick, ie behaving with a mocking disregard for others.

Wrt loafing around, you might be taking the piss if you’re not doing something, eg your household chores. It’s not the laying around that takes the piss, it’s that you’re not doing what you’re supposed to do. It takes the piss out of others when they have to pick up the slack for you.

Like a lot of British phrases, there’s some flexibility in its usage.

On the plus side the local pigeon problem was solved.

Probably just automatically resumed when he connected to the bluetooth.

Surely a better and far easier measure is to look at suicide rates of the whole population vs suicide rates in trans people specifically? You don’t need to factor in covid at all.

Europe is weaker because of Russian propaganda and meddling.

The trouble with green steel is that coal has like 3 uses in steel production - it’s not just used to heat the metal but also becomes part of the steel itself. There are alternatives but you’re having to replace 1 thing with 3 and it ends up being ridiculously energy intensive, so unless your grid is made up exclusively of renewables you’re really just moving the CO2 production around. Especially as most of the demand is additional on top of regular steel production, we’re already trying to switch to renewables but this pushes that target further away.

Really green steel, much like green hydrogen, seems driven more by marketing than it being a sound engineering decision.