Why not just say that ⅓ of money spent was on contracts that had red flags? That’s what they mean, but they’re trying to make it sound more damning and speaking nonsense.
Journalists and numbers is a bad mix.
On the topic of the actual story, I’m not surprised. When are we going to bring a case?
I did some postgraduate courses with guys from Sellafield - the shenanigans they talked about didn’t fill me with confidence.
I went on a school trip there and it is very impressive, like a Bond villains lair, but they did always gloss over the waste issue and, until that’s solved, we should be wary of building any similar large reactors.
Yeah my mate worked there for a few years after his chemical engineering degree. I hadn’t realised what a disaster it was until he spoke about it. Apparently the Russians phoned the site when Chernobyl happened because it was the worst nuclear disaster in Europe that had happened before.
Mate also told me there were many flora and fauna that lived in the area despite the high levels of gamma radiation. One of his colleagues had a bird shit in her hair on the way in to work one day and it wouldn’t wash out in the chemical shower so they had to shave her hair off.
I suspect it’ll probably end up in the same places most other large hazardous industrial sites will be - rural, coastal just off an arterial road route somewhere. See also: Torness, Easington, Milford Haven etc.
That said, Tom Scott did a video (because of course he did) on plans for nuclear testing on UK soil - have a look if you’re interested - and it seems the answer to that was underneath a chunky section of Yorkshire moorland.
Its cool. Just go back to one the bazillion previous threads on nuclear waste disposal. There was a dude who said they’d gladly put all nuclear waste under their house since its so safe in modern times. Just contact that one, all good then.
Yeah this is absolutely needed… I grew up in Devon and remember when the bus services were privatised and taken away from the council… For about six months the prices dropped as two different companies competed, then one company won the other company folded and suddenly it was a monopoly… Prices tripled overnight and then over the next few years the number of services declined to the point where it was impossible to live in the village that I did and commute to work by bus
This would be great news. Imho, council run buses are a great public good.
When you have a large town/city, it’s really important to have a way to get around that’s not expensive.
You only have to visit somewhere with a properly run network to see the difference.
As a municipally owned bus service, the council says Reading Buses can invest an additional £3m a year in the bus network, around 12-15% of its annual turnover, because it does not pay out dividends to private shareholders.
Money from commuter services also subsidises smaller less well-used routes.
Edit: Another place it helps councils: Old people bus passes.
In June 2023 the LGA said there was a £452 million gap in the funding councils receive from government compared to the actual number of ENCTS journeys made in 2022. This meant that councils were having to plug the financial gap from their “own stretched budgets”, which was “completely unsustainable
So a LA owned bus company with lower fares means the council doesn’t end up making up the shortfall between what the government pays for free journeys and what the bus company decides to charge.
It’s very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It’s all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven’t watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.
Incredible that it’s only happened now. Just goes to show how actually old the average Brit is. On the one hand it feels good, I’ll still be “young” for another 15 years, even though past 25 it’s all downhill, but on the other hand the downfall of civilization to the cheer of the boomer property tycoons hopped up on the daily heil isn’t that nice to be around.
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