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London Cycle Lane Project

Fiona MacLeod

London Cycle Lane Project Costs £14 Billion, Still Somehow Ends in Canal Insight and Controversy: London Cycle Lane Five Observations on UK Cycle Lane Chaos London infrastructure projects now operate according to abstract-art principles. Cycle lanes in Britain frequently begin with optimism and end beside industrial bins. Councils continue painting bicycle symbols on roads apparently designed for emotional suffering. One cyclist reportedly entered a lane in Camden and emerged spiritually…

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Labour Blames Tories

Charlotte Whitmore

Labour MPs Quietly Googling “How To Blame Previous Government Forever” During Lunch Break LONDON — Internal browsing data obtained by The London Prat through means we are legally advised to describe as “journalistic,” rather than “asking Gerald to check his mate’s browser history,” reveals that no fewer than 47 Labour MPs spent some portion of their parliamentary lunch break on Tuesday searching for variants of the phrase “how long can…

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The UN Security Council Permanent Seat: Britain’s Most Significant Piece of Postwar International Real Estate and the Arguments for Keeping or Relinquishing It

Alan Nafzger

The UN Security Council Permanent Seat: Britain’s Most Significant Piece of Postwar International Real Estate and the Arguments for Keeping or Relinquishing It | How Britain Got Its P5 Status, What It Actually Confers, the Reform Debate, the Veto, China and Russia as P5 Complications, and Whether Britain Deserves a Permanent Seat in 2025

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NHS Waiting List Elected Mayor

Lotte Heidenreich

NHS Waiting List Accidentally Elected Mayor of Birmingham After Receiving 2.3 Million Votes Five Observations From Britain’s Most Participatory Healthcare Event The NHS waiting list received more votes than any human candidate in Birmingham’s mayoral history, which electoral analysts describe as “a powerful mandate” and NHS officials describe as “still subject to triage.” Campaign managers for human candidates admitted they struggled to compete with a waiting list that affects virtually…

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Britain Officially Ungovernable

Junglepussy

Britain Declared Officially Ungovernable, Blames Shortage of Competent Socialists and Surplus of Meetings About Meetings 🇬🇧 Somewhere between the sixth prime minister in seven years and the 1,200th parliamentary amendment about whether tea should be oat-based, Britain quietly crossed a line. Not a bold, Churchillian line. More of a faint chalk smudge labelled “Well, this isn’t working, but let’s not say so out loud, it would be ever so divisive.”…

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Pennine Edge Forest Plants One Million Trees

Isla Campbell

Pennine Edge Forest Plants One Million Trees Fully Expects Credit From Rest Of Planet Region quietly awaits formal acknowledgement from Amazon rainforest. GREATER MANCHESTER — Britain is growing a forest. This is not a metaphor. The Pennine Edge Forest — a long-term initiative to plant millions of trees across the landscapes connecting Greater Manchester to the South Pennines — represents one of the largest urban and peri-urban woodland expansion programmes in the country. It…