Peanuts are legumes, although they are usually classed as nuts. A worthy winner either way.

Coconut has a lot of saturated fat, so I’d say unhealthy. Deep-fried Snickers on the other hand…

A counter-argument is that they are punishing mental illness:

In mitigation the court heard Ruane had mental health issues from childhood trauma and had alcohol dependence.

The defendant claimed he had no memory of sending the messages as he was “blind drunk” every day at the time.

Like the Prevent scheme where a “staggeringly high” number people on it are autistic.

I was considering getting their RSS feed dragged through to Lemmy via:

https://rss.ponder.cat/post/1454

Sortition for the HoL or it’s a waste of time.

Apparently, one issue is not being able to price promotions on baby formula which has reduced competition and kept prices high.

I don’t know if it is being done but in medication specific formulations have codes so you can compare products (it highlights Nurofen’s rebranding and varying the price on identical painkillers) and that could work here. The news reports say parents go for the big name brands because they want guaranteed quality and something like that code system would help reassure parents that a cheaper brand is just as good.

Is he showing off how close to Trump he is or lying to force the Speaker’s hand?

The skin of your fingertip.

Somehow, Welby returned.

Skynet

Ruh roh

He said the “bat shed” was his favourite example of the problems caused. The Bechstein’s bat was “generally pretty available in most of northern Europe, western Europe”, he said. “But nevertheless, under the Wildlife Act, 1981, it’s deemed to be a protected species in the UK, this bat, even though there’s lots of them.”

The bat is rare in the UK and deemed to be “vulnerable” in Europe, according to the IUCN conservation network’s red list.

He sounds like a bit of a prick trying to muddy the waters in an investigation into why the project went so over-budget under his watch.

History starts with the written word, it ends if Trump becomes president.

Catholic priests have entered the chat.

What would we call it? hallo-old-chum-you-fiend? my-good-friend-the-dishonourable-sir?

I say, that’s a bit much old thing!

In Labour’s election manifesto, Starmer said he would “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”.

But not on day one, they need to hire and train more people to process the claims - it’ll pay for itself. The Tories not doing so seemed like deliberately creating a problem they could then utilise for their own ends.

This seems sensible:

Hawkins added that there was some argument to support the use of gene editing to create species better able to resist diseases. “However, in most cases, diseases are preventable through good housing, husbandry and care and veterinary surveillance. Directly editing animal genomes should be seen as a last resort,” she said.

Also, rather than genetically modifying cows to produce less methane, perhaps we should eat less cows. It feels like saying we can keep burning coal because we’ll develop carbon capture and storage.

Username checks out.

It’s honestly embarrassing that FT even published this. Under a fucking £39 per month paywall too.

I feel we need a posh version of !okmatewanker@feddit.uk

I think they are harming their argument by calling it “austerity” when the Budget is pumping money into hospitals and schools, starting to reverse the harm done by austerity. Yes I want them to go further but Corbyn did propose going further and lost the election. You have to be in power to enact change.

Labour haemorrhaging votes to progressive independents and Greens in their heartlands should be a lesson to this government: you are wrong to believe that progressive voters have nowhere else to go.

Here in Liverpool the Greens are second place to Labour in the majority of seats. I’d like them to win a few just to put Labour on notice that they can’t take vote for granted.

As long as there some movement on Northern Powerhouse Rail then we aren’t so arsed about HS2’s northern extension.

The price has stayed the same despite inflation, so it is relatively cheaper.