Almost 350.000ha within our National Parks are devoted to driven grouse moors. These moors are heavily managers with mountain hares, stoats and foxes are legally slaughtered, and hen harriers and golden eagles illegally slaughtered (hen harriers have also been shot on the Queens Sandringham Estate).
Elaine Thompson-Herah: Instagram blocks gold medallist who shared race win
A study commissioned by the FA found 359 accounts on twitter with explicitly racist abuse. Action taken – zero – update 11 arrests made . Thompson-Herah’s account was taken down because she may have broken copyright rules for olympic sponsors by sending clips of herself wining the gold medal to friends.
Beyond the absurdity of the detail here is the fact that accounts can be taken down rapidly if financial interests are involved, but not racist abuse.
CLIMATE CHANGE
BLAMING THE YOUNG
I know that the young did not vote for the nasty party, but this government seems vindictive. Young at University have been put under house arrest earlier in the pandemic, have had to pay top whack for an experience that was far from what they signed up for. Those most likely to lose their jobs are … the young. Education has been disrupted and the best that Williamson can come up with is free Latin Lessons for a few. Now they are being blamed for any future surge in infections because they have been reluctant to get vaccinated.
COVID
EDUCATION
What has Williamson been doing, not helping sort out the exams or university entrance procedures, not amending the poorly thought out vocational education reforms, not preparing guidelines for schools to reopen safely in September. But now we know he has obviously been extremely busy handing out a tiny pot of money for a few schools to pilot Latin classes.
CYCLE AND WALK WAYS
Would the government please stop prefacing every initiative with a cost figure. It means nothing, especially when given to cronies. A £338 million package – what does that actually mean? For a motorway I would guess a maximum of 25 miles. What will the money be spent on – I suspect about half will go on surveys by think tanks!
DILEMNA
No jab, no job, no entry, etc. Public health versus personal freedom. Of course there needs to be a balance. I believe there must be alternatives. Perhaps compulsory mask wearing if not jabbed, although I suspect that those who have flouted the mask laws are also unjabbed. A hypothetical situation – a school with 100 teachers and 50 other staff, 3 refuse to be jabbed. How do the other 147 staff react? If one of the refuseniks is a support teacher could the class teacher refuse them admittance to the classroom? What about meetings – could they be barred? It will be a very divisive issue so solutions need to be found fast. If they were testing 3 times a week they maybe less likely to spread the virus than a double jabbed person!
LOBBIES
Time to abolish the lobbying system which favours the largest and richest companies. No more perks for M.P.s’ or civil servants. For example – transport investment. At the moment we can be sure that the lobbyists promoting motor transport and motorways and bypasses will receive £millions to support their cases. My alternative would be the creation of web sites for spending ideas where all organisations could submit their arguments online for all to see. Ministers and Parliament would have all the different opinions and the decisions made in clear view of the public.
BOOST FOR RNLI
Farage called the RNLI a taxi service for migrants – result, donations increase by 3000%. Then is compatriot on the shite TV channel slags off our Olympians by saying only gold medal winners are creditworthy. Another moron.