Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)
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Labour abstain on bid to criminalise water companies for sewage pollution (www.thecanary.co)
Afghanistan: Three Spanish tourists killed in shootout (www.dw.com)
The attack on foreign nationals took place in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. Some foreigners visit the site with the remnants of massive Buddhist statues mostly destroyed by the Taliban in 2001....
Prominent Android manufacturers commit to supporting phone software for 7 years (www.cnet.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9647496...
Three councillors resign over Labour's ‘lily-livered stand’ on Gaza (morningstaronline.co.uk)
Vatican reveals new rules for supernatural phenomena (www.bbc.com)
The new guidelines are expected to tighten the criteria for what counts as a divine apparition....
Wealth of Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty leaps by more than £120 million over the past year (www.itv.com)
‘Lord of the Rings’ Anime Feature, DC’s ‘Creature Commandos’ Set for Warner Bros. Presentation at Annecy (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
This year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival takes place June 9-15 in France.
Mandela’s grandson calls Lammy ‘apologist for genocide’ (skwawkbox.org)
Chinese police activity in Hungary 'a significant risk to EU security', group of European lawmakers warns (www.reneweuropegroup.eu)
The Hungarian government’s invitation to Chinese police officers to patrol in Hungary poses a threat to European security and in particular the freedoms of Europe’s Chinese diaspora....
'Neom' project: Forces in Saudi Arabia 'told to kill' to clear land for a futuristic desert city being built by dozens of Western companies, ex-intelligence officer says (www.bbc.com)
Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project....
Rishi Sunak admits Tories may not win general election | ITV News (www.itv.com)
George Galloway’s Plan to DESTROY the Labour Party | Downstream [01:25:23 | May 05 2024 | Novara Media] (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15074083...
Farewell King Theoden (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Galloway's Workers Party to stand candidates everywhere in challenge to Labour (morningstaronline.co.uk)
“Unveiling the largest left-of-Labour electoral challenge in history, Mr Galloway, who returned to the Commons in the Rochdale by-election in February, said the party was speaking to three Labour MPs about their possible defection.”...
Windows 11 KB5036980 update goes live with Start Menu ads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft has enabled Start menu ads in the optional KB5036980 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2.
Glance is coming to the US, whether we like it or not (www.androidcentral.com)
Reports suggest Glance is preparing to debut in the U.S. “later this year” following its pilot program with Motorola and Verizon....
Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it | Henry Hill (www.theguardian.com)
I thought it was worth sharing this critique of the Rwanda policy from a Conservative point of view....
Over £23bn worth of welfare benefits went unclaimed in the last year, report finds (morningstaronline.co.uk)
NEW analysis has found that over £23 billion worth of welfare benefits went unclaimed in the last year....
"If you are concerned about fascism, you would wish to halt Russia": Historian Timothy Snyder blasts U.S. Republican Lawmaker Green of her accusation of Ukraine being a 'Nazi state' - (video, 4 min)
Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11273444...
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Pogroms surge across West Bank (www.972mag.com)
Tories denounce BBC’s Nick Robinson for referring to “murders of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians” (www.wsws.org)