blackn1ght

I like the idea of moving things up north, but I'm not sure if it's really practical given that Whitehall is in London and other key departments.

Then there is the “full decant” option, in which both houses would move while the job is done. Neither option comes cheap. It would be an estimated £8.4-£11.5bn and take 19 to 24 years for the full decant, whereas staying put would come at a whopping £11.8-£18.7bn and take somewhere between 38 and a staggering 61 years.

Seems like the full decant option it is then?

I've read that one of the reasons why repair jobs take so long is because some Lords refuse to have sessions is there's any visible building work going on in the chamber. So contractors need to stop, put things back and stop while there's a session going on and then continue when it's finished. And other staff complain if there's any slight bit of noise going on.

If they can decant everyone out then this should surely help with that as contractors can work uninterrupted.

"unskilled" directly refers to the amount of training a job requires to do it. Anyone can wash dishes or do a newspaper round without any training. It's not a skill to wash a plate properly.

Anyone can do an unskilled job and be efficient at it in a short space of time.

Newspaper round, washing dishes in a pub and putting seeds in soil in containers at a plant nursery.

Newspaper round, washing dishes in a pub kitchen and working in a plant nursery putting seeds into soil in their trays.

None of them required any training, anyone could have done those jobs.

I've had a few jobs when I was young that required no skill.

Although Attenborough is not vegan or even vegetarian himself, he has frequently used his platform to promote plant-based diets.

In recent years, the broadcaster claims to have adopted a mostly vegetarian diet for environmental reasons and has cut red meat from his diet due to its environmental impact.

In a 2019 interview with Radio Times, he said he no longer has the ‘same appetite for meat’ – blaming the state of the planet.

However, he recognises his small consumption of poultry and fish is ‘middle-class hypocrisy’ and says it leaves his conscience feeling ‘troubled’.

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He recognises his own hypocracy but looks to have vastly reduced his meat consumption. Nobody's perfect, but he's hardly totally ignorant about it.

You flipping turnip!

That was really interesting, thanks! There's a lot of these kind of "ditches" where I live, the entire village is only 20 years old so they clearly had this in mind.

However, the UK is taking a less aggressive stance, with Visa and Mastercard working within the initiative.

Both companies are part of the new funders group, giving them a stake and a say alongside a large number of banks and payment companies including Santander UK, NatWest, Nationwide, Lloyds Banking Group, the ATM network body Link, and Coventry Building Society.

I'm confused, Visa and MasterCard are involved in the project that's looking to replace them?

Keep it. There's more than enough places to discuss politics.

I'm still in favour of ditching school uniforms entirely and just mandating that they can't have any branding on their clothes.

If schools want to have a uniform, they should pay for it and not charge the parents.

That's way more than £90 of cheese

The shit-frosts are comin', barbs!

Another reason for disliking winter: the butter is rock solid

Gold medalists receive a butter pie barm.

We've been watching Steal this week, bloody good so far!

Yeah. I was like "errrr no fucking shit they're closely related?"

Those pesky Danes and Romans!