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Controversy as I don’t hate the new proposed GBR brand and livery.

I think it needs some tweaks (don’t think it works on the intermediate vehicles) but it’s not bad & will no doubt evolve over time and improve.

Happy #GBRDay everyone…

#GBR

So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible.

1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.

An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.

I'm planning to set up a straightforward blog, with the occasional supporting image. In an ideal world, I'll also build a watch-along community of sorts.

Should I go down the Wordpress route, or choose Ghost? Or something else? (Not Substack.)

Following Rishi Sunak and Nick Cleggs' move to advising tech companies, let's all wish Liz Truss well on her first day at Amazon Web Services.

The oldest curry recipe published in the UK dates from 1747. The first fish and chip shops opened in about 1860. Why is the latter British food but the former isn’t?

This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

This has melted my tired embattled heart.... 😭💕💕💕

Jim doing a fantastic stretch.

I don't like to brag but I do think our cat Jim is probably better at stretching than virtually any other cat in Britain.

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

WHEN people talk about David Beckham, they always say that he's a brilliant footballer but thick as two short planks. You never hear anyone saying that Stephen Hawking is a genius, but shite at football, do you? As usual it's one rule for England captains and another for theoretical quantum physicists. Nick Jones Sheffield

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Joke's on us, at least two of these will be on a bbc political panel shows within the year, pretending to be an expert from The International Institute Of Degeneracy In Art or whatever Tufton st makes up next

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

OH MY LIFE!!!
This weekend, TBP will be 7 years old!!!
How on Earth did that happen? Not bad really for something we used to call "a fancy off-licence".

We've had ups & downs! Spats with CWaC, survived lockdowns, won local, regional & national awards, & now also run an annual beer festival!

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

The msm pursued the Rayner story in such detail it forced her resignation . Now there’s a much bigger scandal concerning Farage of possible treason it’s like they’ve forgotten how to spell investigate & corruption. It’s not only Farage who has a Russian problem, if our msm protects him we all do .

Well that's the trouble. We did. We voted out the Tories, only to get a government that now does the same or worse. It's not hard to see why people feel like giving up on politics.

Deadly NO2 air pollution levels in London in 2016 before the introduction of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels.

This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS.

Here's how they did it 🧵

Have you tried the Darkwood series by Gabby Hutchinson Crouchs?

Woo hoo! Finally.

Today is Global James Bond Day!
Here is 'Roger Moore' looking very dashing on a Zorin locomotive at the entrance to Main Strike Mine. Which is here at Amberley.
Amberley Museum was used as the location of Main Strike Mine for the 1985 film 'A View to a Kill'.
#jamesbond #bond #aviewtoakill

Saving lives, saving you money, improving the flow of traffic, there’s no downside to switching to 20mph default limit.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

So, that Discord data breach? The headlines *should* have focused on the Age Verification angle.

It affected a 3rd party service Discord uses for Age Verification appeals.

It took 3 months from the start of the UKs OSA age checks for the first known data leak.

www.theverge.com/news/792032/...

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

I’ve never read any of the LOTR books nor seen any of the films.

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