This has got to be the dumbest take on this sorry one could possibly have. Shame on the Guardian for publishing it so uncritically.

There are zero downsides to the public for a healthy school lunch mandate. Pointing out that some kids would rather eat garbage for lunch does not mean that the government should pay for that.

If the government is paying to feed kids, then it should be paying for healthy food. If some parents would rather feed their kids deep fried crap well… you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink.

I’d wager that the “concern” these companies (why do we have private companies in charge of feeding school kids again?) is really based on the fact that these meals are more expensive and so it cuts into their margin.

Those are reasons why it’s not being addressed effectively, not why the problem exists in the first place.

• Are these homes bought for investment that can’t sell for the amounts the owners want?
• Were they inherited and being held unsold due to being tied up legally?
• Are they unsuitable for human habitation, either because of neglect or changing regulation?
• Are they simply temporarily empty due to “housing purchase chain” problems?
• Is the market undervalued?
• Has some rich supervillain bought up a few million homes just because he hates poor people that much?

The article proposes a question and then fails to answer it.

An article titled “why are homes left empty…” doesn’t answer the question.

While he’s right in this case, calling him a “prominent American journalist” is as inaccurate as his usual “reporting”.

I imagine it’d be a case of: “scan this food that I just made by hand, store its structure, and replicate that exactly later”.

So the replicator could make Grandma’s soup for you, but it would always be exactly how Grandma made it that one time.

Yeah I’ve always been frustrated with this trope. Somehow, we’re expected to believe that a technology capable to creating and assembling all the atoms in a chocolate sundae is incapable of modifying the recipe.

In my head cannon I’ve always understood this to mean that the replicated food is “too perfect” and lacks the human imperfection/variation you get with real cooking.

This “1000 words to conversational” sourdough sounds really good to me. Thanks for sharing!

Agreed. Despite appearances, subsidies like this don’t help the public, they’re just giving cash to energy companies with extra steps. Long-term planning on the other hand makes a lot more sense for the public, while sending less money to the energy companies.

I wonder how many of those companies are involved with that think tank.

Is there a particular reason we need another flag? What’s wrong with this one that’s been around a long time?

Clever, but as far as I know, Jesus isn’t credited with actually writing any of the bible. The actual authors, like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are all long dead.

Is there a more reputable source other than RT? In the age of deepfakes, it’s reasonable to require evidence from trusted sources. RT is not.

Excellent. Now do IDF soldiers.

Or… (and bare with me here) generations of establishment parties doing fuck all for the people while burning the world, backing a genocide, and insisting that everything was fine because “line goes up”.

Support for Labour and the Conservatives fell apart when both parties decided that they didn’t care about the same things the electorate do. There’s no nuance missing. They gave up and expected us all to fall in line. We aren’t, and now they’re acting confused as to where their support went.

I’d say that it’s for a few reasons:

1. In this country’s broken electoral system, “tactical” voting is quite common. Until now, Labour has been heavily relying on the idea that they’ll be elected by default: the not-Conservative choice. When Reform ate the Tories’ lunch, they continued to push that they were “the only party that can beat Reform”. This result suggests that this reasoning no longer applies and indicates that Labour’s dominance as an alternative to the right-wing forces in the UK is ending.
2. By pushing the traditional parties into 3rd, 4th, and 5th place, this election may mark the end of these guys in favour of the new challenger parties that’re both advocating for more direct action to combat the problems we have.
3. Reform took 2nd, consuming the Tory vote almost entirely indicating that they’re the force to beat. This makes the revelations of #1 all the more relevant for those of us who think that Reform are dangerous fanatics.
4. The Greens are unabashedly socialists and this result indicates that their position is resonating with voters far more than Labour’s “Tory light” platform. When the “labour” party gets spanked by a party that’s advocating for wealth taxes, that’s a Big Deal™.

Well he used the word “antisemitic” to describe a party led by a Jew, so that was my first hint ;-)

That’s the really encouraging part of all this: Green is looking like the tactical choice now :-)

Don’t ruin this for me :-)

Yeah I realised that after watching the TLDR News coverage. I hadn’t seen the video myself obviously 'cause I don’t watch TV and don’t speak Urdu ;-) It was the fact that it felt like racist fear-mongering that made me jump to conclusions. Like, seriously, as a politician, you go to where the people are. If a large portion of your electorate speak a different language, you’d better figure out how to talk to them.

You posted a YouTube video from some rando account suggesting that it was posted by the newly-elected MP, and then copy/pasted some other rando’s lie-ridden opinion. Everything you’ve shared here is at best irrelevant, and at worst misinformation.

I get that you’re sad that Reform lost, but they’re the wrong path for this country. Maybe one day you’ll understand that. The Greens ran on a platform of hope and community over division and fear and I’m absolutely thrilled that they beat Reform so bad. It renews my faith in humanity that we can make good choices in the face of divisive, hateful demagogues and that’s just awesome.

I just think it’s hilarious that Labour has for years been leaning on this “the Greens split the vote” line. Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, I’m betting they feel differently.