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This is the best list ever:
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#lockdownuk #goodideas #virtuallyleavethehouse
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Large numbers of healthy people are abusing the welfare system by claiming they or their children have autism and/or ADHD. The cost of this shameless behaviour is unsustainable.
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A 72-fold increase in costs as it’s discovered just about everyone in Kent has autism or ADHD
Courtesy of private diagnoses
Genius
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There are people out there claiming PIP for their "social anxiety" and this guy's fully Hawking and still managing to orchestrate international terror. Be inspired.
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On March 1, 2006, a 16-year-old told two detectives he helped his uncle rape and kill a woman. Then, on a break, he asked if he could get back to school in time for a project.
Teresa Halbach was 25, a photographer. On October 31, 2005 she drove to Avery's Auto Salvage in Wisconsin and never came back. Her burned remains were found in a pit on the property. It belonged to the family of Steven Avery, who had already served 18 years for a rape he didn't commit.
Detectives pulled his nephew Brendan Dassey out of high school. No lawyer, no parent in the room. The trial judge put his IQ in the "low average to borderline range."
They kept asking what else happened to her head. Finally one said, "Who shot her in the head?"
"He did."
"Then why didn't you tell us that?"
"Cuz I couldn't think of it."
In the video below he's on that break. "How long is this gonna take?" He wants to be back by 1:29. "I have a project due in sixth hour."
Then he's with his mother. He asks what happens if his uncle's story is different. "Did you?" she asks. "Not really." "They got to my head."
He got life in 2007, with parole eligibility in 2048. In 2016 a federal judge ruled the confession involuntary. In 2017 the full appeals court reinstated it 4 to 3, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. He is still in prison.
Was it a confession, or did two detectives write it for him?
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Just shy of £23,000 pounds separating those on the minimum wage and those now in the higher tax bracket. This is completely unsustainable, the squeeze on middle earners and the pressure this places on employers is nothing short of a scandal.
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Did you know?
Heathrow's third runway could add over 100,000 jobs across the UK.
At least 50,000 locally, plus 5,000 apprenticeships for young people.
BUT it only happens if it gets built.
TODAY, Heathrow's public consultation OPENS. And opponents will be filling it in.
Here's how you can help:
Respond to the consultation. Tell them you SUPPORT expansion and want it built FASTER.
Opens: TODAY
The DEADLINE is the 22nd of December
First proposed in 2003. Earliest opening: 2039.
We can't afford to wait any longer.
Link below 👇
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Importing rapists is good actually, part one of 25.
These fucking fools.
Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist!
And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!).
So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic
🧵1/25
ALT Graph showing conviction rates for sexual offences in England and Wales by nationality, compared with the British population.
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Push for reparations and then moan about racism. Such tedious showboating, and we’re all bored of it. It’s been done to death.
You’re a British MP. Act like it.
I've received waves of racism & abuse since my #BHM speech.
A Shadow Minister referred to my "mates overseas" and told me I should "do one"
Who exactly are my mates overseas? 🤔
Today I called out his racially-charged comment. Grateful for Speaker's response 👇🏾
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Exclusive from @breeallegretti
Ministers have been secretly warned that some English reservoirs are at risk of running dry, hitting water supplies to homes in the run-up to Christmas
The government’s emergency committee, known as Cobra, is meeting up to twice a week to discuss the situation in the southwest of England and Sussex
A secret “reasonable worst-case scenario” was drawn up, anticipating that several reservoirs’ water stocks could fall to 0 per cent — dubbed “day zero” — within weeks
Officials warned that without action, supplies to some homes could be affected, along with disruption to the construction of a nuclear power station and operations at a prison
Wimbleball reservoir, which supplies more than 400,000 people in Somerset, has 13 per cent of its capacity, while Ardingly, which serves 280,000 customers across West Sussex, is at 17 per cent
Ministers battling to avoid reservoirs running dry by Christmas
thetimes.com/article/7812e10…
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It doesn't help that for 34 years now, not one new reservoir has been built in the UK and, yet, also since then (1992), the population has increased rapidly by approx. 22% (12-14 million), all depleting the same water resources.
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Uk reservoir storage capacity has not increased in line with the growing population.
The solution doesn’t take a lot of working out 🤦♀️
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It’s embarrassing.
Look at what the Victorians built. Look at what China can build. Look at SpaceX sending rockets into space.
We can’t even build a fucking reservoir
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Literally cannot get a GP appointment. There's no way to do it. The only options on the app is for smears or B12 injections. If you call them, they tell you there are no appointments available, try again tomorrow between 8 & 8.30am. I call but end up in a queue, eventually to be told all appointments are gone that day. On the web portal, if it's not a very specific listed medical problem, it just tells you that you don't need an appointment but you can email them and they'll get back to you at some point.
Having gone through cancer treatment which has left me with brittle bones and countless other problems, I feel like they give zero fucks. I even got an appointment made for me the other day for a mammogram. I've had both breasts removed. They didn't have it on record. It didn't used to be like this. I've had my ovaries removed and all estrogen stripped from my body for the past 8 years. This leaves me at risk from all sorts of health problems, but I can't even get my GP to schedule an annual bloodtest to make sure everything's OK.
It's got to the point where I just cannot be bothered, and if my cancer comes back or the treatment side effects eventually kill me, that's just how it is.
ENVY OF THE WORLD THOUGH.
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Two things: absolute psychopath behaviour putting up the first three episodes of Last One Laughing and leaving ep4 until Friday.
And secondly, Reece Sheersmith's joker. Fucking, and indeed, hell.
