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(FT) npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Chart indicating how strong various passwords are. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The first asylum seekers are expected to arrive in East Sussex barracks in new year as the Government has vowed to end use of asylum hotels and plans to send first men to Crowborough site within weeks. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Santa: What do you want for Christmas? npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col I wasn't a big fan of tinkering with genetics - until now! npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col , my big fear is being stuck in a motorway traffic jam unable to get off. 🥺 npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party are now known to have been the focus of efforts by alleged Russian asset, Nathan Gill. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col What do electric cars and diarrhea have in common? The fear of not making it home. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Batesville School District in rural Arkansas had a $250,000 annual budget deficit. Then, it discovered it could save at least $2.4 million over a span of 20 years with clean-energy alternatives like solar. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Hard work pays off later. Laziness pays off now. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col A Brittany town is so fed up of the French being perceived as rude and unwelcoming that it has launched a “courtesy week”. Residents of Saint-Brieuc are being told to stop moaning and strike up polite chatter with one another as part of a drive to become the nation’s “capital of courtesy”. Bonne chance. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Marley was dead: to begin with. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col California just returned 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian Tribe in what Governor Gavin Newsom called “the largest ancestral land return in the history of the region and a major step in addressing historical wrongs against California Native American tribes.” Now, a number of conservation projects will begin, including the reintroduction of Tule elk, which has already begun. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in its history, after Donald Trump demanded Kyiv accepts within days a US-backed “peace plan” that would force it to give up territory to Russia and make other painful concessions. Trump confirmed on Friday morning that next Thursday – Thanksgiving in the US – would be an “acceptable” deadline for Zelenskyy to sign the deal, which European and Ukrainian officials have said amounts to a “capitulation”. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Volodymyr Zelensky is being pressed to accept Donald Trump’s latest scheme for ending the war with Russia. Under the 28-point peace plan, drafted in private by Washington and Moscow, Russia would be freed from Western sanctions and allowed to rejoin the G8, while Kyiv would be forced to cede swathes of land currently under its control and banned from future membership of NATO. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col “It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office.” npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Immigration Refugees who have established lives with homes and families in the UK – including Ukrainians – will face having to return if their home countries become safe, Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, has said. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col After much soul-searching I have decided not to send Christmas cards this year, they just end up in the bin and subsequently in landfill. I have decided to take the money I would have spent to Asda and swap it for vodka and beer, massively reducing my ability to give a shit what anyone thinks. I'm sure you'll support me in this. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The Collins Dictionary word of the year is “vibe coding”, which means making an app or website by describing it to AI rather than writing the code manually. Others on the list include “aura farming” (cultivating a cool, charismatic persona), “broligarchy” (uber-rich tech bros) and “Henry” (an acronym for “high earner, not rich yet”). npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Nigel Farage has said Reform UK is the party of “alarm clock Britain” in a major speech on his vision for the economy. He promised to “substantially” slash the benefits bill, raise the thresholds at which people start to pay tax, embrace the cryptocurrency boom, “get the North Sea operating” and scrapping all net zero subsidies. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col In Sudan, ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are being reported from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region over the weekend. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned. In his only interview before next month’s Cop30 climate summit, António Guterres acknowledged it is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the target. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col This Sunday, clocks will go back across the UK, marking the end of BST. The change is scheduled for 2am, so we all get an extra hour in bed, but it also means the evenings will look darker sooner. It was introduced during WW1 in 1916 to help conserve fuel and make better use of daylight hours. In the UK, clocks now go forward on the last Sunday in March, but there's a growing debate over whether changing the clocks still serves a purpose, especially given modern energy use and flexible working. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col BBC News - Eight countries added to methanol poisoning warning list npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col An electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential “new era” in tackling blindness. Doctors who implanted the sim card-shaped prosthetic devices say they have helped many of the 38 elderly patients in the trial regain their ability to read. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported. Katie Lam said that the families should “go home” leaving a “culturally coherent group of people”. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The Mongolian wrestler Hōshōryū Tomokatsu won the Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall last night. After five days of fighting – during which the assembled rikishi ploughed through 700kg of rice, 1,000 packets of miso soup and 400 bottles of soy sauce – the 150kg 26-year-old beat his 191kg opponent in a crisp 10 seconds. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col For the record, I do all of my own stunts. Just not on purpose anymore. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col She got her doctorate in Palindromes. From today, she's to be addressed as Dr. Awkward. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Plug-in hybrids are almost as bad for the environment as petrol cars. A new study of onboard data has found that so-called PHEVs, which run on both electric batteries and combustion engines, pump out only 19% less CO2 than petrol and diesel engines rather than the claimed 75% reduction. The discrepancy is thought to be due to overestimates of how much the cars use electric mode – a measly 27% of driving time, rather than the official figure of 84%. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Bean bag chairs are like Venus fly traps for anyone aged over 40. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col France is mired in its “most serious political crisis since 1968”, says Sylvie Kauffmann in the FT. 4 days after the resignation of Sébastien Lecornu, the 3rd PM in a year, Emmanuel Macron revealed that the new PM would be Sébastien Lecornu again! A new poll puts Le Pen’s far-right National Rally on 36%, probably enough to scrabble together a majority, so mainstream parties may agree a compromise on pensions that would only be a temporary reprieve. After his disastrous snap election last year. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Mate: Did you eat all my chocolate in the fridge last night? npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col I need to use a pair of scissors to open the plastic packaging on a new pair of scissors. Needing scissors was the point of me buying a pair of scissors! npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The Trump administration, allegedly changed the colour of the US flag just before the president’s state visit to the UK. Nick Farley, Britain’s official flag supplier, said the White House decided at the last minute that the red used in the Union flag, called R01, wasn’t strong enough for the Stars and Stripes, and insisted on a cherry red instead. So all the American flags flown during the visit had to be replaced, costing British taxpayers an estimated £50,000. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col One of the two people killed in yesterday’s terror attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester was accidentally shot by police. A second person received non-fatal gunshot wounds; they appear to have been behind the closed synagogue door when officers opened fire on the suspect, named as 35-year-old Jihad al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian origin. Three others have been arrested. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col I often think of my great uncle who was in a glider that landed in WWII. I say landed, they were designed to crash land and then fall apart so the soldiers could rush out! There was no practicing, you only did it once, most crashed badly, and many were killed and injured. I never met him as he was badly injured and died a few years afterwards and before I was born. Brave or what! 🤔🫣 npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col I made a lot of stupid mistakes as a child. Now that I'm an adult, I make mistakes that are much more complex and far- reaching. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col https://news.sky.com/liveblog-webview/politics-latest-labour-conference-migration-starmer-reeves-burnham-12593360 npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col 😱 npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The crown court backlog in England and Wales has hit a new record of almost 80,000 cases, while wait times for trial dates have reached up to four years. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col All working adults will need digital ID cards under plans to be announced by Keir Starmer, in a move that will spark a battle with civil liberties campaigners. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown. In its latest annual assessment, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said ocean acidity had crossed a critical threshold for marine life. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Three hardest things for people to say: npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Ohio is allowing families to sign up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program from the hospital at birth. 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The stickers, available to buy online, were declared legal by Transport Scotland after a sharp increase in crashes linked to a tourism boom in the Highlands, often involving travellers unfamiliar with driving on the left. Och aye. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col I've been feeling weak, tired, depressed and rundown, so I looked up the symptoms. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col I wouldn't worry about it. It won't change you. 🤔😂 npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Zodiac signs may be wrong! Created in Babylon 2,500 yrs ago, the 12 signs were based on the constellations behind the sun then. But not now. If your birthday is today, you think you’re a Virgo because that was the constellation behind the sun on this day thousands of years ago. Now, it’s Leo. For 3 reasons: The Earth wobbles, shifting our stars view by about 1 degree every 72 years. Constellations aren’t all the same size, and there is a 13th constellation, Ophiuchus, which they forgot about! npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col School absences “significantly contribute” to children’s mental ill health, according to recent research that shows the risks increase the longer a child is absent. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Democrats in Congress have released what they say is a “birthday book” compiled in 2003 by Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday. The document includes a bawdy message allegedly from Donald Trump (below), which the US president has denied writing, as well as a note from Peter Mandelson, now Britain’s ambassador to the US, calling the late sex offender his “best pal”. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has defected to Reform UK – the highest-profile Tory to do so – on the eve of the party’s conference in Birmingham, saying “the Conservative Party is dead”. The Lib Dems joked: “We don’t know who to feel more sorry for, Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage.” npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers. Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The Treasury is reportedly considering a tax on landlords in the autumn budget that would target income from rents. The proposals are centred on the expansion of national insurance to include rental income. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Your call is important to us. Please enjoy this 40 minute flute solo. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col 👍 npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Parents catching a whiff of tobacco on their teenager’s clothes shouldn’t worry too much about what their kiddo got up to last night because it could just be a funky fragrance. In a boon to the fragrance industry, spritzing oneself with perfumes is now a Gen Z and millennial obsession. That’s thanks to PerfumeTok, a corner of TikTok that popularized the necessity of enhancing one’s odour using designer fragrances, called smellmaxxing. There’s also scent layering, combining aromatic products. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Protesters at the next mass demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action will withhold their details from officers to force en-masse processing at police stations in an effort to make it “practically impossible” to arrest everyone. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col A historic wooden church in northern Sweden is being moved across the town of Kiruna to make way for the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine. The two-day operation is relocating the church about 3 miles to Kiruna’s new town centre, part of a decadeslong plan to shift the entire community. Mining beneath Kiruna by the state-owned company LKAB since 1910 has destabilized the ground, causing subsidence. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The family behind Britain’s biggest toy shop chain, The Entertainer, are handing over ownership of the business to its 1,900 employees. Gary and Catherine Grant opened their first store in Amersham, Buckinghamshire in 1981, and the company now spans 160 shops and more than 1,000 concessions. Gary says it wouldn’t have felt right to sell the family business “just for money”. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Half of the people arrested during the protest in relation to Palestine Action in London on Saturday were aged 60 or above, according to police figures. A total of 532 people were arrested at the largest demonstration relating to the group – all but 10 under section 13 of the Terrorism Act for displaying supportive placards or signs. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Rushanara Ali has resigned as homelessness minister after it emerged that she evicted tenants from a property in east London she owns, then re-let it weeks later for an extra £700 a month – behaviour her department will soon make illegal. She insists she followed “all legal requirements”, but as one Labour backbencher told Politico: “You can’t be the minister for homelessness and seemingly be a slippery landlord.” npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col A woman in Cornwall is rescuing honeybee swarms from chimneys, rooftops, and even electricity substations and nurturing them back to strength. Molly Earl’s bee rescue business, Bees Off, has relocated around 250 colonies since 2020 with a 98 % survival rate, turning potential loss into thriving hives. Oh, and the resulting honey has won awards. 😋 npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Estimates of the population of undocumented migrants living in the UK range from 120,000 to 1.3 million, with Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf recently putting the figure at 1.2 million. Regardless, that number doesn’t come close to those living in the UK legally: the 2021-22 census put the entire foreign-born population of the UK at 10.7 million. But lies travel fast on social media – especially if they chime with existing worries or prejudice. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Nasa is fast-tracking plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, as part of its long-term ambition to create a permanent base for humans to live there. With China and Russia working together on a similar plan, an official from the American space agency tells Politico, this has become “the second space race”. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col Nothing wrong with that. God bless them and their forebears. Many don't fall into that category though. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col They are welcome. As soon as we can tell the difference between them and those wishing to get benefits etc without working for them we can start to welcome them. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The leading professional association for gynecologists in the U.S. announced it will no longer accept federal funding, saying that Trump administration policies prevent it from providing evidence-based guidance. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col 🤔Worth a try, nothing else seems to work. 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The red, brown, and grey hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. npub13cf5phczlej8lryjfjw4lzal76r70jd23dp60njdyccaxzydrsjsq7nrp5 Col The UK economy shrank by 0.1% in May, contracting for the second month in a row. The Office for National Statistics says the fall, which surprised analysts, was mainly driven by a drop in manufacturing and “very weak” retail sales.
