Mark Edwards

Haven't thought of a bio yet.

Probably never will.

[Mark Edwards @Mark_Ed_1722]

@NetZeroWatch Plus it already looks a bit like Checkpoint Charlie, so it won't need much of a makeover when the country turns 'full GDR'!

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@RollingHedge Fair enough.

Grim stuff - and there's more to come, once the building industry feels the full force of the latest round of safety, planning and payment legislation.

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@RollingHedge Having just paid this month's bill - £1k after subsidies, in Yorkshire - those nursery costs feel a bit optimistic!

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@standardnews Though what happens if a tent village beats him to it?

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@ukhomeoffice Whatever happened to "no means no"?

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@ChronicleNUFC @lee_ryder We already know Tonali is heading out, so this one feels like PR groundwork for Bruno's departure

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@caseysean51 They could really do with a senior signing to settle nerves, though

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@FarmerG59620191 @KathrynPorter26 @annaturley Yes - shameful.

Oddly enough, a rather left-leaning colleague had wanted to send the kid to Fulneck for SEND reasons but is having to make do with Crawshaw.

The unglowing feedback wasn't quite in parliamentary language - but I did make out "never voting ******* Labour again"

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@KathrynPorter26 @annaturley Yes - she should ask Rachel from Accounts about the private school in her constituency, which was well known for SEND - to the extent that two families in my street moved to the area because of it.

One has now had to move, the other is selling - and their MP couldn't give a...

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

You can run with this premise and the conclusion remains absurd.

The UK has rapidly decarbonised already. It has made no difference, because the UK's share of carbon emissions was already statistically insignificant — which is only becoming more true over time.

We could hit Net Zero. We could hit negative carbon. Nothing would change, because China and India exist, and they do not give a damn about our political gestures.

(This is evidenced by their emissions increasing almost as quickly as our political gestures have proliferated, and over the same timeframe.)

No amount of decarbonisation in the UK will make any difference to summer temperatures. This is not an ethical or an ideological point - I like the environment, I dislike excessive heat - it is a mathematical one.

All it does is make us poorer and less able to adapt to the new reality.

A policy of increasing carbon emissions would, paradoxically, improve our climate resilience, because we'd be able to afford basic infrastructure like air conditioning while adding nothing of note to global emissions.

The only reason this is not widely accepted is that political environmentalism is a virtue cult. It has no interest in climate science, it has no interest in tangible outcomes, it is entirely concerned with allowing mediocrities to play act saving the world.

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@CutMyTaxUK Water companies don't have term appointments?

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@markaizatt Is this not just a photo of Starmer and his government, after successfully dying his hair?

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@LukeEdwardsTele One of the best things in this transfer window so far, is that there's been none of that "chairman's favourite" or "just won't sell" stuff that we saw with Isak - which wholly undermined credibility.

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@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC David - whilst appreciating that things like placing one's hand over one's mouth absolutely need ruthless enforcement over mere trivialities - does football still have rules around tapping up?

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@RobNoLastName Hopefully Burnham's answer is "the wardrobe Lord Alli bought for you and your wife, and nothing more"

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@TheVocalHero Same reason. If you can get adequate returns without spending full cash budget / assuming all risk, then why would you do so?

FWIW, last project of similar value I was involved in had funding from over 60 financial institutions - any one of which could have covered it alone.

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@TheVocalHero Also - they came in with the club having done zero work into the feasibility of building a new stadium. No site investigation or design, nor review of property rights / stakeholders / planning etc. etc.

That stuff takes time even when it's straightforward. This one isn't.

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@TheVocalHero Little doubt they could fund it themselves - but if you were in their shoes, would you want to chuck in all the cash and assume all the risk if there are others willing to do so?

Suppose others put in 25%. You could buy another club with the cash you saved.

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@ToonPolls No.

Szoboszlai also gets one, after skinning Nick Pope a few feet away from the centre circle.