The letter made four demands: that a full debate is held in parliament; that proper consultation take place with the Chagossians, who have so far been ignored; that alignment is reached with the US; and that a detailed and transparent breakdown of costs is provided.

Involving the Chagossians and wanting a cost breakdown honestly doesn’t seem that unreasonable. They’re obviously being opportunistic here, the Tories are the ones who’ve been negotiating this deal over the past few years and chose not to involve the Chagossians.

It is unthinkable to alienate our closest ally by finalising this deal without their support.

Glad to see the Brexit party Reform want to take full advantage of our regained sovereignty.

Seaford, I’d recommend just blocking badger and moving on. Hexbearers don’t really respect the concept of civility and have much more patience for this inane nattering than you ever will.

Did you mean to link to this BBC article?

Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle told the BBC there was no reason why the UK could not create tech companies on the same scale as Google, Amazon, and Apple.

‘It’s a shame that the torment nexus isn’t British.’ We should be talking about breaking these companies up, not putting a Rule Britannia spin on cyberpunk.

IFTAS has a list of resources, with a compliance template for fediverse software being worked on. https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/ is run by Neil Brown, who’s been following the OSA over the years. There’s also this newsletter by Rachel Coldicutt.

The very same.

Why does this article embed a random Tweet from some fascist trying to link this to a positive thing Ivor said about pride in that past?

Ethnicity*

Jewish isn’t a nationality.

“As a result of [the latter], several of these ‘councillors’ are illegitimate and new elections must be held. Reform stands for the highest standards in public life, and those who commit fraud will always be expelled.”

Do these ‘high standards in public life’ include using donor cash to influence foreign elections, collecting user data without consent and inciting pogroms?

accusing Starmer of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her South West Norfolk seat in the general election.

I too hate it when I’m faced with the consequences of my actions.

https://fedipact.veganism.social/ has a search feature.

[Lemmy has] no mechanism for a community owner to communicate a challenge to post to his community, so impossible to prevent spam.

Hey mods, you can do the funniest thing right now:

His party’s ‘charter’ is such a joke. A national Bitcoin reserve, blockchain direct democracy, getting rid of ‘LGBTQ+ propaganda’ from schools so ‘classrooms will no longer be battlegrounds for ideological warfare’, but best of all is:

Replace modern “art” with statues and monuments honouring British heroes.

While the charter is full of AI ‘art’. Suppose it’s hard to pay for real artists when all your assets are being seized on account of being a sex trafficker.

Traditionally, puberty blockers would be used in cases where children start puberty at extremely young ages

Puberty blockers have been prescribed to transgender youth since the 90s, they’re use in combating gender dysphoria is just as much a part of the puberty blocker tradition as their use in combating early puberty.

I would not want to be held accountable for the countless stupid things I said or beliefs I held at a young age, so I can see why it is a concern.

This subtle notion that slips into this discourse that being trans is akin to a make-belief thing is deeply frustrating. No, children were not just being given puberty blockers because they suddenly declared that they weren’t their assigned gender. Getting puberty blockers required a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, something I can assure you is not an easy thing to get in this country, and even then still needed a specialist’s approval.

This is the worst part of this ‘debate’, people are led to believe that it’s the child deciding for themselves that they get puberty blockers despite the very stringent requirements on their use for trans youths. The point of this entire ordeal is not to protect kids (puberty blocker usage has a 4% regret rate), it’s to build up the idea that no amount of safeguards can make the prescribing of trans healthcare acceptable to people you don’t believe have full bodily autonomy. Where this goes from here is not looking for other areas in which our medical system is failing children, it’s expanding the list of trans people who don’t have full bodily autonomy. The Cass Review has already said that autistic people need special consideration.

Couldn’t find a non-X source

They link to one? This was also posted here yesterday.

This guy keeps coming up, but this recontextualises the stuff he’s said before. Previously:

• UK government adviser warns assassination attempts becoming more likely
• Election abuse of candidates may have been coordinated
• The Walney Report Is a Threat to Democracy

The housing secretary, who is also the deputy prime minister, said building more homes would stop prices from rising further and pricing new buyers out.

This would only really works if supply outstrips demand, but even if Labour delivers on the 1.5m pledge, it still falls far short of the current 4m+ deficit. The best this policy will do is stop prices rising as fast, but it won’t stop prices rising.

I’d completely forgot about them tbh. You also see it a lot with cheese alternatives, even though they broadly fucking suck so I don’t know why the cheese industry even bothers.

In 2019, Oatly applied to trademark the phrase “Post Milk Generation” but this was rejected by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in January last year after ruling that its use of the term “milk” was “deceptive”.

But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them. Guess I’ll just continue to enjoy the two bottles of oat ‘drink’ I have in my fridge.

To be honest I do think calling it “milk” lets them inflate the price when it is essentially porridge water.

Most good oat milks will have stabilisers and vitamins (B12 especially) added to them vs if you just made some at home.

Nah, I did it and that seems to have sent it through to everyone else. Just weird as I checked the logs and slrpnk seems to have not sent the pin activity to feddit.uk.

Weird, it didn’t federate.