Ooh, exciting!
What are you going to buy? Do you need everything or just a few bits?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12377259/Banks-closed-MILLION-accounts-just-four-years.html
More than a million bank accounts have been shut since 2019 – and the rate of closures is accelerating, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
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‘I think the legislation should go further and limit banks to closing accounts only when there is clear evidence of criminal activity,’ said James Daley, founder of campaign group Fairer Finance.
The debanking data shows that so far this year almost 200,000 bank accounts have been axed because of concerns over financial crime activity such as fraud and money laundering.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/06/environmentalism-where-democracy-goes-to-die/
Ten years after the UK had passed the Climate Change Act, which commits the British government to stringent, legally binding decarbonisation targets, there was no sign of any public enthusiasm for climate policy. Politicians across the political spectrum were all in agreement that draconian measures should be taken to mitigate global warming. But they had not brought the electorate along with them. ‘For the overwhelming majority of people’, the report warned, ‘climate change is a non-issue’.
Fast forward five years to today and the public is finally starting to make its voice heard on the climate. Except not in the way our green-leaning establishment had hoped. Rather than clamouring for further climate action, voters are starting to bristle at the burdens of Net Zero.
Is your onion pie similar to ours?
https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/my-mothers-lancashire-cheese-and-onion-pie/
There’s a fix for that, you know!
Not the analogy I would have gone for, but it definitely fits!
Ten weeks and counting….
Not helped by having to be constantly keeping an eye on the dog right now.
“Ooh, I could go and do a bit on that craft project… or not, because then he’ll wake up and start chewing.”
Indeed.
To a much lesser extent, I know what you mean. I’m starting to get a bit bored occasionally, too, after my year spent racking up as many stressful life events as possible.
That’s good to hear (well, you know). You’ll get there!
Yikes.
A bear, being transported on the passenger flight, managed to break free from its crate within the cargo hold, causing a series of delays and disruptions on Friday.
Yeah, it’s the same idea as the net nanny software you can get to (try to) stop your kids looking at porn. If you try to visit certain URLs, it blocks you.
I think it looks pretty nice, I like the light and the tree. Is it really that different as a concept from a house made from bricks made from clay?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/05/train-wi-fi-ai-denies-access-to-gender-critical-site/
Sex Matters, which campaigns against the adoption of gender ideology and argues that biological sex is a reality, had its web page blocked by Great Western Railway.
Those attempting to access the site, which raises concerns about gender reassignment surgery as well as about men in women’s prisons, hospital wards and sporting events, received a message that stated: “The domain is blocked by GWR because it’s associated with the terrorism and hate category.”
There’s no need to “go through the mental process of determining which gender” they are when one can tell their sex at a glance.
I couldn’t get into his Edinburgh series (I suspect because it was originally a daily newspaper serial and worked better in that format), but I do like No 1.
