THE Telegraph has started to use “woke” as a tag for news stories, so that the readers need waste no time in getting their chunter on. Obviously, the moral of all this is that the “woke” tag really works, and can reduce even ancient columnists to a state of helpless chunter. [I say] ‘I’m not going to diss your religion and your job, but let’s have some kind of collaborative effort.’ The response? “The event isn’t staged just as a spectacle to be filmed, but as a personal encounter of a couple with God,” he told The Times. “In the Garden of Eden, Robinson points out, ‘the beauty of the trees is noted before the fact that they yield food’.

March 08, 2024 00:40 UTC

The decrease in sea ice not only has a negative impact on marine animals such as polar bears, seals, and walruses, but also has an impact on the lives of people along the coast by increasing waves that would normally be suppressed by sea ice. .If global warming continues at this rate, it is thought that eventually there will be almost no sea ice in the Arctic during the summer. The letter 'a' on the far left represents the Arctic Circle in the 1980s, when it was covered with sea ice even in summer, and the typical sea ice area during this period was 5.5 million. However, unlike the Greenland ice sheet, which took thousands of years to form, sea ice is formed by freezing due to annual temperature changes. Therefore, even if an ice-free Arctic occurs, it is possible to increase the extent of summer sea ice again by reversing climate change.

March 08, 2024 00:17 UTC

The MPs said: “With the support of its allies, the UK’s armed forces continue to fulfil a crucial international role. MPs also renewed their criticism of the MoD’s procurement processes, saying that slow delivery of new systems had caused gaps in military capability. Year-on-year our committee has seen budget overruns and delays in defence procurement. “Ministers have lost control of the defence budget, failed to fix the ‘broken’ defence procurement system and wasted billions of pounds of public money. “We are ensuring that we have the largest defence budget in history, increasing spend and ensuring that we have the funding that we need to protect UK national interests.”

March 08, 2024 00:15 UTC

The £12m FutureGrid project is looking at how low-carbon fuel can be safely integrated into the networkA section of the pipeline system has been recreated at an air force base in Cumbria to test increasingly concentrated hydrogen blendsShareThe owner and operator of Britain’s gas transmission network has tested running pure hydrogen through its pipelines in a world first as it attempts to make the case for the lower-carbon fuel as an alternative to natural gas. The £12 million FutureGrid project is being run by National Gas with funding from Ofgem, the energy regulator, and companies including Northern Gas Networks, which distributes gas across Yorkshire and the northeast, to look at how hydrogen can be safely integrated into the network. The government has said it wants to reduce the UK’s reliance on natural gas in line with a target to reach net-zero goals. However, pipeline owners hope hydrogen production will be encouraged instead, as a replacement in fuelling heavy industry and eventually home heating, helping to secure the future of their networks. National Gas operates the transmission lines that carry gas over long distances from the North Sea and import terminals to local distributors that supply homes and businesses, power stations and heavy industries.

March 07, 2024 19:46 UTC

Galloway, known for taking no nonsense from interviewers, pointed out that he has no control over what people say, but this did not deter desperate Starmeroids from using the tactic. Today, news has broken that Keir Starmer has been endorse by US far-right figure Steve Bannon, the architect of Trumpianism and a convicted criminal, who said he is ‘very impressed’ by Starmer. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. Thanks for your solidarity so SKWAWKBOX can keep doing its job. If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so – see here for more.

March 07, 2024 19:21 UTC





The Police and Crime Commissioner and his rival for the role have spoken out over a need to build trust in Thames Valley Police after a survey found public confidence lacking. Results of the survey, from data provider Maru on behalf of the force, showed only 60 per cent of respondents viewed it as a trustworthy organisation. With PPC elections upcoming, set for May this year, Labour’s candidate Tim Starkey has also spoken out. While Couzens represented a different force, Mr Starkey has backed Labour calls for urgent reform to vetting and misconduct procedures in all police forces, including the Thames Valley. “The types of misogynistic attitudes uncovered in the team where Mr Couzens was operating are sadly not confined to the Met,” he said.

March 07, 2024 17:01 UTC

But while these people are a significant force in the GOP , they are minority nationwide. The remaining embryos are necessarily destroyed but the Alabama decision requires that every single unused embryo be preserved forever, upon pain of criminal prosecution. The GOP is now scrambling to find ways to avoid an even more severe backlash over the IVF issue than they face with abortion. Florida legislators are already uneasy that the Alabama IVF virus will spread to their state. The Daily Show‘s Desi Lydic commented on the Alabama decision

March 07, 2024 16:49 UTC

Netanyahu and Hamas, which he helped over the years, have a common interest in lowballing the death/injury toll. Hamas keeps the figures low to reduce being accused by its own people of not protecting them, and not building shelters. (Unguided Western and Israeli reporters and journalists are not allowed to enter Gaza by the Israeli government.) Daily circumstantial evidence of the deliberate Israeli targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructures requires more reliable epidemiological estimates of casualties. It matters greatly whether the aggregate toll so far, and counting, is three, four, five, six times more than the Health Ministry’s undercount.

March 07, 2024 16:21 UTC

The Times and Sunday Times will refresh their daily news podcast with a new name, look, music and presenters, including William Hague. Press Gazette Daily Your morning brew of news about the world of news from Press Gazette and elsewhere in the media. Future Of Media USA Our weekly does of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers. CloseHague has a weekly comment column in The Times which was highly commended at the British Journalism Awards in December. The free Times podcast claims to attract 492,000 listeners per week.

March 07, 2024 16:13 UTC

The court heard that Mr Clark “at times” provided her with £10,000 in cash per month, and that she had access to credit cards. “The total aliment directed to Mrs Clark and to the support of the children while in her care has been £8,500 per month.”Sir Arnold Clark died aged 89 in April 2017. The couple moved to a house in Ledcameroch Road, in the exclusive Glasgow suburb of Bearsden in 2015 and Mrs Clark had access to two credit cards. The judge also said that Mrs Clark had “retained” £102,230.43 and had received advanced capital payments of £200,000. Lady Carmichael ordered Mr Clark to pay his estranged spouse a capital sum of £1,163,561.

March 07, 2024 16:03 UTC

I’m afraid you’ll all have to be referred to Prevent as potential terrorists. A document from Prevent, the official scheme to stop radicalisation, includes believing in socialism, communism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion in a list of potential signs of ideologies leading to terrorism. The document is part of online Prevent awareness training for those covered by the duty to inform if they suspect radicalisation. The guidance was updated last year and published with little or no fanfare, after William Shawcross’s controversial government-ordered report on Prevent was released. In a section on the left wing it states: “Two broad ideologies: socialism and communism.

March 07, 2024 15:47 UTC

Henderson called time on a 12-year career at Anfield last summer after deciding to defect to Saudia Arabian side Al-Ettifaq. I was very emotional but it was the right decision made by the manager and club. “He knows what he’s doing, he just needs to do what he’s been doing his whole career. You need players with the right mentality, a group that’s together. If you look at Villa, Emery has done that for them.”Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content.

March 07, 2024 15:37 UTC

Diss could soon have a new takeaway in town after Domino’s said it was ‘delighted’ to be opening a new store in the spring. Believed to be going into the Pride Animal Rescue shop in Mere Street, rumours that the national chain was coming to town have been circulating for some time. Jobs for upcoming roles such as Instore team members for a store in the town have also appeared on online job sites. Domino’s will welcome customers to a new store in Diss in spring, which could be at the former Pride Animal Rescue shop in Mere StreetA Domino's spokeswoman, Saskia Moss, said: "We’re delighted to be opening a new store in Diss in the Spring, bringing our fresh homemade pizzas to even more loyal customers. “We will be sure to let people know as soon as we have further details of the opening.”

March 07, 2024 15:00 UTC

The Times and Sunday Times are refreshing and expanding their daily news podcast with William Hague joining the line up. Once a month William Hague will sit down with a prominent newsmaker or thinker for a special extended edition, with the first episode available later in March. William Hague said: “I am delighted to be joining The Story. She will go on location regularly to report for The Story and Times Radio. William Hague joining the presenter line-up is the icing on the cake.

March 07, 2024 14:55 UTC

Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesClaim:Sophia Loren said in 1965, "I'd rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size zero." Some social media users have claimed that in 1965 Loren said, "I'd rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size zero." We can see size inflation happening over shorter time spans as well; a size 2 in the 2011 ASTM standard falls between a 1995 standard size 4 and 6. I'd rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size zero." Sophia Bush Was Named After Sophia Loren.

March 07, 2024 14:06 UTC