The United Kingdom has revealed plans to invest 5 billion pounds ($6.8 billion) in bolstering national cybersecurity that includes creating a “Cyber Force” unit to perform retaliatory attacks. BleepingComputer reports: As the UK’s Secretary of State fo…
Hi, my name is Phil and I like talking about politics
Brexit Crisis Worsened By Rampant Capitalism A Different Bias is a channel started in 2018 by then-teacher Phil Moorhouse to turn his “ranting about politics in the staffroom” into videos about Brexit era Britain. Over the past year the “socialist, Pr…
Facing Post-Brexit Petrol Shortage, UK Issues Emergency Visas for EU Truck Drivers
Slashdot reader AleRunner tipped us off to some excitement in the UK:
The British government said on Friday it may draft in the army to help deliver gas after shortages caused by a scarcity of truck drivers forced the closure of stations across the cou…
United Kingdom To Regress To Imperial Weights and Measures
New submitter Generic User Account writes: Under plans unveiled by ministers today, it will once again become legal for market stalls, shops, and supermarkets to sell their goods using only Britain’s traditional weighing system. “A document titled ‘Bre…
How old do you have to be to consent to your own healthcare?
There is no fixed age for adulthood in England and Wales. At age 10 you have full criminal responsibility for your actions, at 14 you can get a job, at 16 you can change your name, at 18 you can buy alcohol, at 21 you can adopt a child. Since 1986 and …
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair 1940–2021
[wikipedia] Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940 – 16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He passed away on the morning of 16 September…
Proise, Grantfulness, Glofe, and most of all, Chart
With so many disasters pumelling the UK simultaneously—Brexit, Covid, GB News—it’s nice to see that our most famous sponge monarch has decided to share her innermost thoughts with us as a balm to a broken nation. Queen Elizabeth II is now issuing a dig…
School Science Projects Reveal Very High Lead Levels in the Schools’ Water
650 U.K. schools received educational kits from a charity for testing the lead levels in their water. Students at more than 14 schools then discovered their drinking water had higher lead levels than the recommended maximum. The Guardian reports:
Seve…
Image of water, deodorant, air freshener, cereal, crisps, shortbread…
UK grocer Sainsbury’s have digitized and uploaded their entire collection of store-brand packaging materials, mostly dating from the 1950s-1980s. [via @mathowie] The full archive is a surprisingly comprehensive treasure-trove that contains images of n…
Design so dreadful you’ll be scarred for life
By the end of episode two, your Changing Rooms bingo card will be full to overflowing. There are room dividers, MDF panelling and feature walls. There is “colour!” being used to create “zones!” There is pink used in a room whose owner hates pink. There…