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merridew@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Sunak hails Rosebank oil field approval amid climate outcryEnglish4·2 years ago£10.6 billion to the UK government in North Sea revenue for 22/23 v. £2.6 billion for 21/22.
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Equinor (Rosebank majority owner) revenues for 22: $75 billion
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Ithaca (Rosebank minority owner) revenues for 22: $1.9 billion
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BP (formerly state-owned; majority privatisation under Thatcher, from 1979) revenues for 22: $241 billion, for record profit of $28 billion (£23 billion)
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merridew@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•"Absolutely disgraceful:" Braverman accused of trying to ‘derail’ Chris Kaba caseEnglish6·2 years agoNot just any attorney. She was the Attorney General for England and Wales from 2021-2022, the chief legal advisor to the Sovereign and the Government.
And got roundly criticised by the Bar Council for her actions undertaken in the role.
merridew@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•UK's First Consumption Room Given Go Ahead.English4·2 years agoThe perfect is the enemy of the good. If people are going to use – and some are – harm reduction seems like a no-brainer.
Yes, it would be great if people weren’t shooting up at all… but you can’t quit if you’re dead.
merridew@feddit.ukOPto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says councilEnglish34·2 years agoWell
only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled
with
80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload
because
long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff… there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.
merridew@feddit.ukOPto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says councilEnglish21·2 years agoA fun game of spot the difference, but apparently there’s more going on that you can’t see – eg the planned underground carpark just not being built at all, and them building a carpark over the garden instead.
merridew@feddit.ukto 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Reddit is letting a public figure harass me with impunity because I outed his company for fraudEnglish6·2 years agoThen stop disseminating this information online. For now.
You say you’re taking legal action. Hand all of this to your lawyer, and follow your lawyer’s advice. I am very confident they will advise you to stop posting this in a public forum.
In the meantime, I strongly urge you to talk to a trusted family member, friend, or medical professional. It sounds like you are highly stressed. In the short term, forget any perceived public health emergency. Take care of your own health first.
merridew@feddit.uktoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit is letting a public figure harass me with impunity because I outed his company for fraudEnglish4·2 years agoThen sincerely hope that doesn’t impact any investigation by the authorities.
merridew@feddit.uktoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit is letting a public figure harass me with impunity because I outed his company for fraudEnglish6·2 years agoMaybe not. Ample time to make an independent judgement whether to downvote.
OP, if you suspect financial crimes are being committed, you should not be tipping off those involved by publicising this.
merridew@feddit.uktoSNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.@lemmy.ml•Reddit is letting a public figure harass me with impunity because I outed his company for fraudEnglish8·2 years agoIs anyone able to screenshot the modmail receipts? I can’t actually see them, and without them OP’s story seems… rather thin.
merridew@feddit.uktoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit is letting a public figure harass me with impunity because I outed his company for fraudEnglish3·2 years ago10 minutes is a long time on the internet.
merridew@feddit.uktoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit is letting a public figure harass me with impunity because I outed his company for fraudEnglish11·2 years ago“Authentic engagement”? It’s been a matter of minutes since you accused people on Lemmy of being sockpuppets…
merridew@feddit.uktoSNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.@lemmy.ml•Reddit is letting a public figure harass me with impunity because I outed his company for fraudEnglish28·2 years agoThese accounts somehow were able to fully understand an incredibly complex story in less than 10 minutes
What is easily understandable, in far less than 10 minutes, is that a) this is incredibly hard to follow, and b) your mass-posting this everywhere does not comes across well.
If, as you allude to, you have retained legal counsel, I urge you to ask them if posting this all over the place and getting into internet bunfights is likely to impact your case… and I also urge you to follow their advice when they advise you to stop.
merridew@feddit.ukto UK Politics@feddit.uk•Coogan and Vorderman back Liberal Democrats' electoral reform pledgeEnglish2·2 years agoWhy not? Labour are the party that introduced tuition fees in the first place.
merridew@feddit.ukOPto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Russell Brand: Woman says star exposed himself to her then laughed about it on Radio 2 showEnglish15·2 years agoFollowing the investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme into Brand’s alleged behaviour, published earlier this month, Olivia says she tracked down a recording of the programme.
The episode, which aired on 21 June, 2008, features this exchange between Brand and Matt Morgan.
This exchange on The Russell Brand Show was recorded minutes after the incident
Morgan: It’s been 25 minutes since he showed his willy to a lady.
Brand: (Laughing) Very easy to judge! Very easy to judge!
Morgan: The receptionist…
Brand: (Laughing) Look…
Morgan: Receive this!
Morgan adds: “He got told off for ringing a bell, minutes later he’s showing his willy.” Brand can be heard laughing in the background.
Olivia, who has never worked as a receptionist, says she felt disgusted when she heard it.
merridew@feddit.ukOPto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Daniel Khalife pleads not guilty to escaping custody at Wandsworth prisonEnglish19·2 years agoI’m intrigued by his Not Guilty plea for escaping custody when he was previously in custody, and then found to have escaped it. I don’t know much about legal procedures, but that does seem quite bold.
merridew@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Tories and Local Governments Refuse To Approve More HomesEnglish1·2 years agoThe right-wing government of Hungary spends around 5% of its GDP on policies to to “get Hungarian women to breed”.
merridew@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Tories and Local Governments Refuse To Approve More HomesEnglish2·2 years agoLook, organisations with unpleasant views aren’t universally stupid. Turning Point states upfront that its mission is to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom”, but dig down and you find fun stuff like this: https://www.tpusa.com/live/pro-choicers-are-sick-and-twisted
I’d also like to note that praising some historically left-wing policies, and criticising some loonies, should not mean that you stop looking critically at the other things a person says.
Authoritarian policies that deny women choice aren’t limited to right-wing governments. If you support women’s rights to choice, Hungary is not a country you would praise.
‘Baby machines’: eastern Europe’s answer to depopulation The conference in Budapest opened with a sand animation video of migrants rushing towards Europe, and was laced with references to the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which suggests that shadowy forces want to replace so-called “native” Europeans with outsiders. “There are political forces in Europe who want a replacement of population for ideological or other reasons,” Orbán told the conference. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/baby-bonuses-fit-the-nationalist-agenda-but-do-they-work
merridew@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Tories and Local Governments Refuse To Approve More HomesEnglish71·2 years agoYou know, pretty much all of that website seems to be written by one guy. So I looked up some of his other work.
the myth that women primarily work for reasons other than economics or family needs distorts reality https://medium.com/@daviddemos/women-under-siege-quick-notes-on-the-rights-assault-on-women-s-work-choices-and-family-formation-c3b27c6266e6
It’s hard to draw conclusions. Who knows. But what I will say is that this guy clearly spends a lot of time thinking about how certain women can be coaxed into having more babies.
Women in Europe, North America, and some countries in Asia.
merridew@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Tories and Local Governments Refuse To Approve More HomesEnglish1·2 years agoYou can increase social spending and still have contempt for women’s right to bodily autonomy. The two don’t go automatically hand in hand. In fact if your social spending is geared towards having more babies, it most likely won’t be.
Unless they crash the economy and start enslaving people, they’ve got a way to go before they hit the bottom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company