Dan
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secular trauma that religious people endure is a million times worse than your religious trauma
What do you consider to be Britain's second city? Manchester: 34% of Britons Birmingham: 30% Edinburgh: 12% Liverpool: 3% Glasgow: 3% Cardiff: 2% Leeds: 1% Newcastle: 1% Bristol: 1%
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its obviously not impossible to build rail in hilly terrain, but like there's a reason most people in wales live in Cardiff metro area
As someone commented on IG, this is a "Notwegian".
A Scotland World Cup Song. 🏴 My next song ‘The Saltire’s Back (Ole Ole)’ is out everywhere this Friday! (22.05) We are all buzzing for the World Cup & I can’t wait to get this song out there! Pre-save below.
NEW Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announces that the new lower speed curtailed HS2 trains between Old Oak Common and Brum will not run start running for at least a decade, and might not start until.. 2039.
This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight. Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go? The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill. Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground. Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking. When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem. The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade. This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
Labour’s war on drivers is going from bad to worse. Rachel Reeves’s fuel duty raid would make 🇬🇧 one of the most expensive places in the world to drive. Working people need their cars and vans for work, for family, for shopping and for leisure. Labour just don’t get it and see every driver as a cash machine. 👇 👇 dailymail.com/news/article-1…
EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s flagship high-speed rail line has gone “disastrously wrong” because of the decision to “gold plate” the project and political pressure to “keep things moving” despite spiralling costs, an official review has found Sir Stephen Lovegrove, a former national security adviser, said that the “original sins” of the project included a decision to focus on the “highest possible speeds” in an attempt to make it the “world’s best railway” The government opted to “begin construction at the hardest points of the route”, the first phase between London and the West Midlands He concluded that there was also particular confusion over “the changing objectives and political priorities”, with a conflict between the “mission” of ushering in a “new age of high speed rail” and the task of delivering “within time and budget” On Tuesday Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, is expected to confirm that the speed for the line will be reduced to 320km/h to reduce costs, while delivery of the project will be further delayed from previous plans to get trains running by 2033 The first trains between London and Birmingham are expected to run from 2035 at the earliest HS2 was originally designed to run between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds It will now run only as far north as Birmingham on new tracks, at which point HS2 trains will connect to the West Coast Main Line. Latest estimates suggest that this line alone could cost as much as £100 billion, the equivalent of £1 billion a mile thetimes.com/article/2940e8…
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
In some London boroughs, 2 in 5 properties are socially rented. Vast swathes of prime, inner london land is occupied by decaying, poorly managed council housing, inhabited by an economically inactive population. My latest for the @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
