Alasdair Cameron

You know how it is… you can’t really know what you want until you have a go!

I remember being horrified that a guy I knew lied about having a personal crisis in order to get a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor and then proceeded to use it to ask to change courses. It worked though. Although it shouldn’t have!

Hurrah! Top parenting.

We all signed up to do biochemistry and genetics and microbiology before we realised how dull it was and moved into zoology/ecology.

Just get in ecology/zoology and the rest will take care of itself - or go to Scotland and have a more flexible first year to recap a bunch of bio/chem stuff. Also - I didn’t do any field stuff before I went to Uni - it was uni that provided the confidence and skills (and part time jobs) to do so!

What is her dream course? Something around ecology/zoology?

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in #airpollution

- Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Okay, I'll join in.

It's hard to tell which US adversary Trump is helping most of all.
Is it Putin's Russia, by giving it an oil-price bump and depriving Ukraine of interceptors?
Is it China, the main beneficiary of America's shattered credibility?
Or perhaps Iran, whose regime has shown it can withstand attack?

Okay, I'll join in.

Oh well, here's hoping they've misjudged. I am never sure. I just assume that everyone hates everything at this point.

Oh but they are.... all over Facebook..... :)

I doubt Churchill would have voted Reform - I actually don't think he could have existed in the world of today's Britain, and would have been an entirely different person.

The target audience I think is the people in the blue wall Tory seats. May not be a bad political move from LDs but it won't wash on BlueSky.

Remind me who the good guys are supposed to be here?

As a wetlands type - this looks great.

Tomorrow is now today. Come get your bogs/peatland/wet moorland fix, cos obviously that’s everybody’s thing.

US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly the result of a targeting mistake by US military planners

As I posted when it first happened, I knew that US missiles struck the Minab school. Publicly available imagery and even Pentagon press announcements provided more than sufficient proof (despite Pentagon denials).

Now, everyone is seeing the truth.

I have many disagreements with Starmer and would like him to have been much firmer (no US use of bases, some actual speaking out etc)… but on the substantive issue of keeping us as out as he probably could he was correct - and I’ll give him credit because I want more of it.

Hmmmmm…..

Cillian Murphy is Brother Apollonius, the most dangerous man ever to be granted entry to the Great Library…

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a *single* oil price shock

& will insulate UK against future shocks

Meanwhile Reform UK & Tories want to scrap net zero targets on the grounds of 'cost' - so either foolish or doing donors' bidding

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s grimly fascinating. Proper “rich man in his castle, poor man at the gate” know-your-place stuff. They think making good speeches and doing charitable works means lawmakers should inherit a right to make law for the rest of us.

Future Homes Standard: More than two thirds of Brits want solar panels on all new houses Vast majority of people back rules requiring solar panels on all new homes, but barely one-in-10 Brits have heard of imminent Future Homes Standard, new poll finds

Over two thirds of the British public back proposals for solar panels to be installed on all new houses

87% believe govt policy should ensure new homes are designed to cut energy costs

www.businessgreen.com/news/4526696...

Net Zero Costs Less Than One Fossil Fuel Shock, UK’s CCC Says The cost of meeting net zero is less than a single fossil fuel price shock, the UK’s official climate adviser said.

UK's Climate Change Committee has some of the smartest minds working on modeling the costs of how to get to net zero. And this assessment is likley to be applicable to any fossil-fuel import dependent country.

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My plan is to become a famous actor first, then lure people into reading my detective series set in Ancient Alexandria.

Yes.

Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.

I think it says something about how most of us consume news now! It’s a sort of series of solutions we imbibe by osmosis now.

I'm not sure Churchill really was responsible for the Bengal Famine, but we can discuss that another day! :)

Oh not sure I agree. Maybe its time for a change. Some wildlife would be nice. Certainly don't think it deserves to be escalated into some sort of culture war.