Hummingbirds can pollinate up to 2,000 flowers a day and usually live around 4 years. She likely visited around 3 million plants before floating away on one she helped bloom.
Back when I used to watch Question Time. It is (and was at the time) *very* notable that Dimbleby didn't want Hitchens to answer the question precisely as he knew he'd show up the other panellists.
🚨 Pope Leo XIV has sent a WARNING to migrants, telling them how to behave when they arrive into new countries:
'Learn its language, to respect its laws, to get to know its customs, to participate in communal life and to offer your gifts with gratitude'
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Britain must not be “squeamish” about reducing the welfare bill to fund additional spending on defence, Andy Burnham has said.
The mayor of Greater Manchester said that the government must “listen to” the concerns raised by John Healey, who resigned as defence secretary after accusing the prime minister of jeopardising the security of the nation.
In an interview with The Times he said that “the world has changed” and it is “obvious” that the government is going to have to adjust assumptions about defence spending in response.
He said that rather than implementing “crude cuts” to the welfare budget he favours a “preventative” approach that will provide the support people need to get back into work.
He unveiled plans for a 10-year public investment plan which will require all government procurement to include commitments to spending on apprenticeships and work placements for young people.
“I am not squeamish about saying that the plan would be to reduce the welfare bill. Not at all.
"But it is not the traditional Westminster way of just crude cuts, short-term crude cuts that then create a backlash and create more political turbulence.
"It is actually going to do things that will actually reduce the benefits bill, which is moving towards a more preventative state that makes the right investments to support people into work.”
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The #Defence Investment Plan is crucial in laying out exactly what will be funded, when and with what trade-offs.
It should be announced in #Parliament to enable proper scrutiny, and contain all the detail that MPs, British taxpayers and industry expect from an investment #plan.
not defending them when i say it’s not just cyclists, but this is just one part of the general decline of civil behaviour. like the ppl not letting you off the tube first, or who put their bags on the seat when ppl are standing, etc. no one gives a fuck about other ppl anymore.
On a separate note, Purple Aki in any other era would be a Loch Ness monster type myth, imagine trying to tell someone there is a random 6’5 black guy who randomly pops up in different cities in England just to squeeze people’s muscles without sounding like a deluded racist