And thank god it changed back. Of all the issues in my life, having to look at a red passport once every few months affected me so much that you can’t even imagine the hardship. That and something about wonky bananas that I’ve been told was a massive problem that’s only going to be fixed if I vote for that party which definitely represents me as I can have a beer with it’s leader. I’m guessing he’ll buy the round given his wealth that the woke London elite keep trying to take but he’s stood up to them

Honestly, it’s so much better. The main roads are clogged up but can see no difference to before with those, they were always bad. I haven’t seen any difference in driving times. Our road is so much quieter so seen kids playing on the street (not often at all but the roads are still setup for cars of residents), and the drop constant noise that I didn’t notice until it had gone.

I think the next step should be to flip from it being a road with a small pavement to a shared communal area with priority for people, space for kids to play properly and actual green space. There could still be enough road to get to houses and car spaces. When the road was closed for that jubilee party it was so nice! Saw way more of my neighbours and all the kids were out playing together. Can’t see it happening though…

The tourist stated that no Israeli soldier has ever committed war crimes. I imagine that some soldiers from every country in the world with a decent sized army has had someone committing a war crime. Aren’t there military prisons for this reason?

I’m British and know for certain our army has committed war crimes. I’ve protested the government for their military plans, and sent several letters to my MP. I’m definitely not going around defending every thing the government does.

The complete lack of awareness and certainty they’re in the right is really strange to me. Fair play to this hotel owner for doing this - highlighting that people in the rest of the world sees this country in the same light as Russia should open some eyes. If that happened to me it would make me think hard about what we are supporting.

Are US citizens allowed to join the armies of other countries? I’m surprised by that

Anything on social media or news gets shared here. Most of our media is biased and owned by the ruling / capitalist class. This is not new at all (see: Brexit and Nigel Farage).

However, in reality there are multiple LTNs across cities in the country, especially in London. They are generally well accepted by local people but they aren’t very vocal about it. I think most of the cities have charges to drive in for higher emission cars. They’re here to stay but doesn’t make a good headline that they continue on.

Even in my heavily pro-car, suburban area, roads are finally being dropped to 20mph and they’re introducing school roads / other restrictions. There’s long term plans to reduce roads and introduce more cycle lanes (several years behind London Boroughs but going in the right direction…)

I completely agree and think you can’t arrest everyone but I don’t see that happening though. Look at the numbers on the street. If more people surrounded them so they could not physically leave, it might be different. What I see is a few brave people trying to stop them and not succeeding, and everyone else staying inside or filming from afar

As much as I don’t want this, I’m really unsure where we go as NIMBYism is so prevalent everywhere I’ve lived in London.

Every single development is challenged by existing house owners who don’t want their “views” (what view - of the A3 overpass?!?) and the impact on local services and transport (something that could be fixed and actually help - my train line is absolute shite because nobody uses it, more use might actually help). Meanwhile, potential buyers aren’t involved in these because of the way local councils work.

Let’s not be binary and try to work on good sites for building houses, whether inside the green belt or outside.

Plus, the “green belt” is full of motorways and dual carriageways, derelict industrial sites, and lovely but completely unaffordable leafy mansions owned by the super rich.

They won. They got exactly what they wanted, plus anybody who tried to intervene got arrested along the way. From the headline I thought it would be more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcoXdZeabA . There’s still massive problems here and our version of ICE have got away with a lot but thankfully nowhere near this stage

You need healthcare for all your life, not just when retiring. Why wouldn’t you want to live and work in the state with healthcare if it actually works out cheaper for you and less risky? It’s a completely false economy to live in the other state with no healthcare but have to pay high insurance rates and have high deductibles?

I don’t even know what these are, what am I missing out on?

That’s really sad, feel especially bad for the kids who were with her who are going to feel this for the rest of their lives

What about a computer monitor instead?

It does drive me mad when you see governmental bodies still using X and Facebook. I know you need to be communicating with people where they are but also you shouldn’t be giving ad revenue to fascists!