Someone could make Union Jack-patterned poppies, for those who want to show in no uncertain terms how gammony they are. They could sell them through ads in the Daily Mail, arguing that the traditional red poppy has been taken over by “wokeness”, and make a lot of money.

Given how his management decisions are impacting Tesla (pushing out buggy, dangerous “full self-driving”, cutting corners on quality, the whole Cybertruck thing, and associating the brand with his junior-sci-fi ideas long after anyone stopped thinking that he’s some kind of visionary technologist, to say nothing of the weird far-right turn and habit of impregnating employees), it could be argued that he’s strangling a company that otherwise had excellent potential, and that at this stage, it would have a better chance under other management. I’m not sure if, say, the suits at General Motors or Ford could have made as much of an impact with it as a subsidiary, but they’d have certainly killed the Cybertruck or at least made it more like a conventional SUV.

By who? Darren from Essex who drives a van, voted for Brexit, and thinks that immigrants would be OK if they came here to work rather than just stealing our jobs?

Soho is mostly pedestrianised as it is. Few people would drive there in the best of times, with the lack of parking, as the city is far too dense to accommodate that. Pedestrianising it (with common-sense exemptions for cabs, delivery vehicles and such where needed) would merely tidy up the status quo.

IIRC, it’s one of the papers bought by Lebedev, a Russian oligarch (and the son of a KGB officer stationed in London) and one of Boris Johnson’s backers. Presumably it has served its strategic purpose and is now a burnt asset.

If Britain had proportional representation, they’d have a chance of being the leftmost party in left-of-centre coalitions alongside Labour and the Green Party (sort of like Die Linke in Germany or Vänsterpartiet in Sweden), or any least harrying a Labour-LibDem-Green-SNP-Plaid coalition from the left. Though under FPTP, they have a snowball’s chance in Hell, and are likely to serve as motivation for Labour to rule out electoral reform.

So privatisation it is?

318 people still care about the feelings of the innocent trees that would be cut down to build the railway.

Given how many MPs are landlords, expect loopholes you could drive a removal van through

That should reassure the Daily Mail-reading Everyman that he’s not some kind of bleeding-heart communist who would spend their hard-earned taxes on helping the poors.

What about swearwords? Does the word “fuck” appear less often here than in Microsoft Windows and/or the Linux kernel?

The downside of that is that you have to code in Go

Swift could be a good choice.

Then “b” backwards would have to be “d”

The locals make light of this: there was a community radio station in Essex called Ship Full Of Bombs

It’s good that the Tories were too incompetent to sell the safeguarded land to their donors/old school chums at a pittance before the clock ran out. And as such, reinstating the line is a no-brainer. Not building it will result in most of the money still being spent, with only a marginally useful shuttle service between London and Birmingham to show for it.

That Milton Friedman Chicago-school Reaganite bullshit?

AIPAC are saving the big guns for AOC

Because they’re centrist liberals, and attacking Starmer for not rejoining the EU or forcibly redistributing oligarchs’ mansions to the Unhoused or whatever isn’t in their agenda.

Maybe once the Tory kakistocrats have shuffled into their tarpit, they’ll start going after the Brexit elephant in the room, helping to push public opinion into rejoining the EU and drag Starmer along with it.

As of a few years ago, Swift has a package management system named, creatively enough, Swift Package Manager, which can install and build dependencies. It uses Git repository links rather than a central Cargo-style package database, though.

Rust already has Mozilla.