This is awkward from a young @HumzaYousaf.
"A lot of young men in particular from within our own community, believe in objectifying women, especially if those women are perhaps another race or another ethnicity."
There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.
The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.
Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.
The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.
In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.
For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.
Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.
Councils in England and Wales hold more than £2.2 billion in developer contributions that could help fix our roads, according to a new report from the APPG for Better Roads. The rules already allow it. Few councils use it that way
At Highways UK today. STATS19: a poor road surface was a factor in 4% of motorcyclist deaths and serious injuries, double the rate for car occupants and cyclists. Every year for a decade.
https://t.co/s7Q1BZ85xG
Looks like selling Royal Mail to a Czech billionaire worked out every bit as well as selling our water system to an Australian investment bank and our steel industry to an Indian multinational
Apparently Brexit made our trade with the EU 'go to ruin'... 🤔
In reality, the UK sold £181.4bn worth of goods to the EU in 2025.
And the share of UK goods exports going to the EU, at 47.2%, was the same as in 2015.
Source: https://t.co/stMqDmpsNd
Another Cardiology appointment today. The Consultant said I ll have his letter confirming prognosis of less than 12 month tbis week. So can access my civil service pension early. My heart is only working at 20%. And he warned that he expects me to be admitted to hospital with heart failure within next 3 months. I'm not sure how to react when your told this. And I've identified 14 occasions in last 3 years when 3 Consultants, Registrars, GPs just ignored symptoms. Including 2 years ago I attended AE with a resting HR of 150. A Dr used a mobile echo Cardiograph but couldn't even find my heart. So did he refer to Cardiology or book a proper echo or take a cheap blood test.? Did he fuck. He did nothing. Another time 8 month ago I again go to AE. HR at 130. CT scan done. Showing enlarged liver. A secondary symptom of heart failure. And what did the Consultant do with this permanent resting HR of 120-150 and enlarged liver. Fuck All. Nothing.
There are note after note after note going back 3 years. Palpatations, breathless, high HR, dizzy high HR. And no body did anything.
Had this been identified earlier it would be a chronic long term illness. But it wasn't.
So now I'm being told.... Fuck sake. And what can I do about it. Negligence claim?.. Yeah takes minimum 2 years.... Anyway. Bit of advice. Don't be polite. Nice. Respectful of NHS staff, Be loud. Rude. Demanding. An annoyance. IT MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR LIFE
@SarahLudford It's been the worst decade in my long life. The horror of finding out that women are being demoted to second class citizens by men pretending to be women and that there are women who support this is much worse than the zombie apocalypse I feared.
Guys, it was just the fire. The fire magically decided to destroy the oldest market in Paris, located right in the middle of the historic Jewish neighborhood of Le Marais, directly during all those mostly peaceful "student protests." Naughty, naughty fire.