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- yuekit2
One of the world’s most prestigious general science journals, Nature, was the target of a two-year-long sustained and virulent secret attack by a conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists with high-level political, commercial and intelligence connections, according to documents and correspondence examined by Computer Weekly and Byline Times.
The group attempted to have Nature and its staff put under surveillance and investigated by MI5, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, and Japanese and Australian intelligence agencies. They met Cabinet minister Michael Gove and later asked him to arrange phone taps and electronic surveillance. One member of the group led intrusive investigations into the intimate personal life and background circumstances of senior Nature staff the group suspected of “extreme Sinophile views”.
When their campaign flopped and a Covid vaccine promoted by the group failed to reach any form of clinical testing, the group arranged for unfounded accusations against Nature magazines and staff to be published by the Daily Telegraph and on other right wing news sites. They called themselves the “Covid Hunters”. Their allegations against science reporting helped fuel an explosion in “lab leak” claims on right-wing conspiracy sites.
- neverscared0
- ah damn its right above.. sorry.neverscared
- yours is betterMrT
- MrT3
- Bluejam1
- https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- Haha. Did you hear Suella's wonderful speech about being 'woke'? I feel like they're at war with people wanting to be nice to one anotherIanbolton
- an absurdly vile speech, Sunak speech about to start. Let's see what the worst school prefect has to say.fadein11
- I've seen college/uni kids in interviews saying 'politics is finally exciting' which is grim as fuck. Idiocracy is upon us now. Or am i just showing my age?Ianbolton
- @Ian i just saw the clip of the guy getting strong armed out of the conference for daring to mutter something under his breath whilst the wicked witch spokeBluejam
- even Earthworm Jim has turned down the tories ...Bluejam
- So much for diversity in 2023. I like the Aquafresh stripes though!Ianbolton
- heard someone say "its easier to say you are anti woke, than that you are anti LBTQ... but it boils down to the same".Nutter
- urgh, LGBTQ...Nutter
- neverscared0
- https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- still celebrating the brexit desasterneverscared
- Cunts, every single one of them!mrAtor
- Nairn3
- lolBluejam
- haha, very good.Fax_Benson
- we know people like this, yeah?Ianbolton
- Gardener4
- I *like* the not having to talk to people of supermarket self-scanning, banking apps, and online or machine ticket-buying.Continuity
- It's not everyone who wants to deal with other people, Fi Rosen.Continuity
- teamwork got us here. individualism will fail humanityimbecile
- drgs0
- At least we’re good at something over here.Ianbolton
- I'm surprised at Iceland - I was under the impression that Iceland had almost made DS kids 'extinct' there due to very tight screening policies?Nairn
- Something tells me that across a lot of the world, DS kids don't make it much beyond their first day... .Nairn
- neverscared1
Healthy diet in UK at risk from Mediterranean droughts, experts say
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Fresh fruit and vegetables from Europe will be more expensive as drought and wildfires shrink suppliesA healthy diet in the UK will be put at risk by climate breakdown as European droughts shrink fresh fruit and vegetable supplies, experts have said.
Fresh produce from the Mediterranean, upon which the UK is reliant, will become more expensive and harder to obtain as extreme heat causes yields to reduce, putting a healthy diet out of reach of the poorest in society, according to a report by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).
Many foods imported from the Mediterranean cannot be grown in the UK for at least parts of the year, or have to be grown indoors, using more expensive and energy-intensive processes to protect them and heat the growing space. Many cannot be grown in the UK at scale. The former category includes cauliflowers, broccoli and strawberries. It also includes nearly two-thirds of the cucumbers and tomatoes imported to the UK, and nearly a fifth of the overall supply of onions
- if u are lucky a few africans smuggle some fruit into uk when the cross the mediteranean..neverscared
- yneverscared
- we need to get back to eating turniphans_glib
- beans with sauce all day and winter long...neverscared
- u can fart yourself back into the EUneverscared
- PhanLo0
Painting in public often has strange interactions with allsorts of people, over the weekend, I chatted to loads of passers by but towards the end of the sunday night two Polish guys were hanging out, one is a graffiti writer, who's been out of work as a painter and decorator for a while since he broke his leg and his mate said he made trap music.
They both floated in that street drinking weed smoking style, that is mellow enough but I got chatting to them about their living situation, they were sort of homeless, but in edinburgh, there is very few truly homeless people, there's a lot of services that help people so very few people sleep rough.These guys have been staying in B&B's and I found it insane to hear the rent was £400 a week for a room and a shared bathroom, this was in houses with sometimes ten residents.
So the landlord was pulling £20,000 a month from people who were pretty desperate and they had curfews.The trap music guy had got a flat but it seemed such a deliberately confusing process of getting it all sorted out, he was saying it was quite overwhelming.
I had been in the sun all day and managed to get mild heatstroke so had to apologise as my migraine made me vomit out my triple chicken sandwich at full velocity.
The graffiti guy disappeared and I was left hanging out with the trap guy who had a box full of cd's and clothes he'd found in the street. The housing estate he stayed in was miles away so I ended up giving him a lift home.
Made me feel grateful that I have somewhat of a more stable life.
TWENTY FUCKING GRAND A MONTH!
- The B&B thing came in during covid, but has been going on before that, good little deal for the slumlordsPhanLo
- faccckkkkkknecromation
- neverscared0
Crumbling England: from schools to hospitals, how bad is the current crisis?
Jeremy Hunt vows to ‘spend what it takes’ to tackle school concrete crisis
Chancellor says asbestos in some of same buildings could complicate efforts to fix Raac problem in EnglandJeremy Hunt has promised to “spend what it takes” to deal with the crumbling concrete crisis, as he admitted ministers were also responding to fears the problem was compounded by the longstanding asbestos problem in schools.
Asbestos, which is believed may be present in some of the same buildings affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), could complicate the issue as the government faces increasing pressure to reveal the full list of schools containing the concrete.
There are growing demands for transparency over the extent of the consequences of Raac in public buildings on the weekend before millions of children are due to return to classes after the summer holidays.
- Horp0
Broken Stoke video below really reminds me of Birmingham in the 1970s. It as derelict and neglected as this.
I feel like stuff happened that lifted places out of this kind of mire, but none of what happened was a solid structural foundation for continued development. It was like a bubble in mud. It rises above the surface but it will inevitably pop and collapse back down.
I think the Stoke video is arguably the natural state for British towns and cities. We are no longer industrial, so there is literally nothing to build on. Everything is easier and cheaper ordering online, so the idea of shops bece too expensive to maintain for a much smaller share of the customer base.
Without the cohesion of work, shared spaces, and a community based on routines, rituals and beliefs, it all falls back into neglect. If we are not pack animals then we become lone scavengers.
Smaller communities are going to be the more sustainable option vs big towns and cities. I do feel cities are a thing of the past in terms of community. They are good for administrative business only. Ottowa being a good example. It is the administrative capital and Monday to Friday 9-5 it is populated. At other times, it's an abandoned ghost city.
I spent 6 weeks there a few years ago and I would walk for many miles at weekends, and barely see another person.