A married British Airways pilot snorted cocaine off a woman's breasts then tried to fly passengers to the UK.
![British Airways pilot 'snorted drugs off topless woman on night out then tried to fly 12-hour trip to UK'](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/3164e978-d5b5-4e0f-a617-ab2fa0856689.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
£10.6 billion to the UK government in North Sea revenue for 22/23 v. £2.6 billion for 21/22.
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Equinor (Rosebank majority owner) revenues for 22: $75 billion
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Ithaca (Rosebank minority owner) revenues for 22: $1.9 billion
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BP (formerly state-owned; majority privatisation under Thatcher, from 1979) revenues for 22: $241 billion, for record profit of $28 billion (£23 billion)
Well
only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled
with
80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload
because
long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff... there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.
A fun game of spot the difference, but apparently there's more going on that you can't see -- eg the planned underground carpark just not being built at all, and them building a carpark over the garden instead.
‘Blight on the landscape’ in Greenwich lacks promised gardens, children’s play areas and accessibility for wheelchair users
![London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/bb798276-06ba-4b78-b8a0-b9d6a772559a.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Gender inequality and discrimination impede timely diagnoses and quality care for women around the world, says report
![‘Feminist approach’ to cancer could save lives of 800,000 women a year](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3c6cc7b9-208f-4770-8f24-fdcdc625a8c5.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
> "Globally, women’s health is often focused on reproductive and maternal health, aligned with narrow anti-feminist definitions of women’s value and roles in society, while cancer remains wholly underrepresented."
The government has today revealed plans to scrap the HS2 rail link from Birmingham to Manchester in favour of a brand new horse and cart fleet for the north.
![Government to replace HS2 rail link to Manchester with brand new horse and cart](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/c9cd3883-a37a-44f3-85ea-1678d08282a4.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Neuralink brain implants have taken an important technological leap after tests showed monkeys would be willing to pay for Twitter after their chips were activated.
![Elon Musk hails successful Neuralink trial in which implanted monkeys successfully used credit cards to pay for Twitter](https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/9bbe8341-86b3-417c-b7f8-008447c09703.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Comedian James Nokise tweets long train and taxi journey after track fault that also stranded school group
![‘No one knew anything’: rail passenger’s 11-hour London to Edinburgh odyssey](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/44c1a2cc-3312-4310-91e3-fffa84f462e7.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Walliams files a High Court case against the show's production company following his exit as a judge.
![David Walliams sues company behind Britain's Got Talent](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/875e8b01-f61d-4772-9dd1-5e81a5b1d948.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Exclusive: Whitehall sources say use of Pava to incapacitate children is under consideration amid sharp rise in violence
![Pepper spray could be used at young offender institutions in England and Wales](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/a3315bca-bd72-45fd-9fc8-deed83f98192.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Instances blocked by lemmy.world include:
- skinheads.[x]
- breastmilk.[x]
- cum.[x]
- kiwifarms.[x]
- pedo.[x]
- hexbear
and now
Well... hmm.
I know some people don't care for the British but still.
Although a majority of Britons agree that adult couples sharing a home should do equal amounts of housework, two-thirds of them admitted that women ended up doing much more
Evidently yes.
Real men share the housework: what Britain can learn from the domestic bliss of Scandinavia
A new survey shows UK men are shirking the chores. Not so in Nordic nations, says the author Helen Russell
![Real men share the housework: what Britain can learn from the domestic bliss of Scandinavia | Helen Russell](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/3e066745-71cb-4298-86ef-f141ec5b8734.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Following the investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches programme into Brand's alleged behaviour, published earlier this month, Olivia says she tracked down a recording of the programme.
The episode, which aired on 21 June, 2008, features this exchange between Brand and Matt Morgan.
This exchange on The Russell Brand Show was recorded minutes after the incident
Morgan: It's been 25 minutes since he showed his willy to a lady.
Brand: (Laughing) Very easy to judge! Very easy to judge!
Morgan: The receptionist…
Brand: (Laughing) Look…
Morgan: Receive this!
Morgan adds: "He got told off for ringing a bell, minutes later he's showing his willy." Brand can be heard laughing in the background.
Olivia, who has never worked as a receptionist, says she felt disgusted when she heard it.
The incident, which happened in Los Angeles in 2008, is the first time Brand has been heard publicly admitting sexual misconduct.
![Russell Brand: Woman says star exposed himself to her then laughed about it on Radio 2 show](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/2b5b08bd-5ccb-4c72-a85a-50f1532cc30c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
As news emerged that the NFT market has all but collapsed, leaving millions of NFTs effectively worthless, a man who spent all of his life savings on NFTs, convinced they would make him rich, has s…
![Man who spent all his money on NFTs fails to pay his gas bill with JPEG of an ape](https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/4140cde8-391d-45cb-a8b6-0d63074a187d.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I'm intrigued by his Not Guilty plea for escaping custody when he was previously in custody, and then found to have escaped it. I don't know much about legal procedures, but that does seem quite bold.
Former soldier was on remand charged with terrorism offences and is now in Belmarsh prison in south-east London
![Daniel Khalife pleads not guilty to escaping custody at Wandsworth prison](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/08715f00-72e9-4fe2-bbe0-da965ca798d3.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
NAO says Cabinet Office failed to follow proper processes when taxpayers’ money was used to fund legal bills
![Watchdog criticises payment of Boris Johnson’s £265,000 Partygate legal bill](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/a6cb771f-d378-43d7-b3ff-82493abfbda1.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Donner-reed kebab?
While both men and women have historically been accused of the malicious use of magic, only around 10–30% of suspected witches were men by the 16th and 17th centuries.
![Witchcraft accusations an 'occupational hazard' for female workers in early modern England](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/cb62f59d-90a0-48d8-b026-1f2720541fdf.webp?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The right-wing government of Hungary spends around 5% of its GDP on policies to to "get Hungarian women to breed".
Look, organisations with unpleasant views aren't universally stupid. Turning Point states upfront that its mission is to "identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom", but dig down and you find fun stuff like this: https://www.tpusa.com/live/pro-choicers-are-sick-and-twisted
I'd also like to note that praising some historically left-wing policies, and criticising some loonies, should not mean that you stop looking critically at the other things a person says.
Authoritarian policies that deny women choice aren't limited to right-wing governments. If you support women's rights to choice, Hungary is not a country you would praise.
‘Baby machines’: eastern Europe’s answer to depopulation The conference in Budapest opened with a sand animation video of migrants rushing towards Europe, and was laced with references to the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which suggests that shadowy forces want to replace so-called “native” Europeans with outsiders. “There are political forces in Europe who want a replacement of population for ideological or other reasons,” Orbán told the conference. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/baby-bonuses-fit-the-nationalist-agenda-but-do-they-work
Tea towels for everything (drying dishes, drying hands, moving hot things), washed frequently.
You know, pretty much all of that website seems to be written by one guy. So I looked up some of his other work.
the myth that women primarily work for reasons other than economics or family needs distorts reality https://medium.com/@daviddemos/women-under-siege-quick-notes-on-the-rights-assault-on-women-s-work-choices-and-family-formation-c3b27c6266e6
It's hard to draw conclusions. Who knows. But what I will say is that this guy clearly spends a lot of time thinking about how certain women can be coaxed into having more babies.
Women in Europe, North America, and some countries in Asia.
You can increase social spending and still have contempt for women's right to bodily autonomy. The two don't go automatically hand in hand. In fact if your social spending is geared towards having more babies, it most likely won't be.
Not really. If your goal is to undo "retreating state support," you can do that without praising far-right regimes aiming to restrict women's rights to bodily autonomy.
The fact that they gloss over that little aspect is suspicious.
Their website is conspicuously opaque regarding its funding, and "stop population decline" is curiously close to (but notably more palatable than) the 14 Words, while still acting as an effective dog-whistle for people familiar with those words.
RIP summer
Look, I know the forecast was for Saturday to be the last hot day of the year, but I thought we might have a few days of grey before the start of all-out autumn rainstorms.
You don't say. But this guy has such an exemplary record of totally not making up bullshit.
In 2015, Maussan [...] revealed a body that he claimed belonged to an alien, but it was later shown to be the remains of a human child.
At the Market, apparently.
Angelika von Heimendahl has been grazing her animals on Midsummer Common for 15 years, she also sells the meat at Cambridge market
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-grazing-cows-future-under-19907904
The UK joining the Common Market was a Thatcher thing. Old school lefties opposed it at the time because it put limits on state aid, and weakened the positions of the unions.
They have a bunch of stuff about "promoting fertility", eg
the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Israel offer lessons. These countries have managed to increase fertility rates by introducing pro-natal policies — a combination of cash incentives, subsidised childcare, and housing assistance
which all sounds lovely and idyllic, but in reality the far-right government in Hungary has been throttling access to abortion with new legislation that is
an extension of the government’s anti-abortion policies, aimed at boosting the birthrate
meaning that
legal abortions [have] become increasingly difficult as the compulsory counselling sessions were becoming more aggressive and difficult to schedule
I can't definitely figure out the angle either. But they are a pro-fertility organisation praising a far-right regime that is implementing regressive "pro-life" policies at the expense of women's rights, and they are very careful not to highlight the true nature of these policies on their website.
They're also headquartered in Texas. So... draw your own conclusions.
Corbyn hated the EU, and demanded Article 50 be invoked the day after the referendum. Let's not forget that.
https://labourlist.org/2016/06/corbyn-article-50-has-to-be-invoked-now/
Gosh, but Jeremy Corbyn said the EU were the bad guys and we should leave asap to improve things for British workers.
Questions for current and ex-PM over their handling of the pandemic put off
![Sunak and Johnson Covid-19 inquiry appearances delayed ‘to avoid party conference season’](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/9f545995-2904-4516-9b28-df182e901ecb.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Shop thefts have more than doubled in the past three years, costing retailers £953m a year, according to the British Retail Consortium
![‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/d1ad1449-7646-4041-a777-86fa298f7406.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Sainsbury's and Tesco deny misleading customers on price offers through loyalty schemes.
![Cost of living: Loyalty card prices mask price hikes, says Which?](https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/66dc492d-5eb7-40a1-b739-4f87307a97c9.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)