The #UK faces strategic crisis. After decades of neglect of crucial #infrastructure, it now even lacks capacity to monitor the decline.

In this case, dangerous deterioration of a major road bridge was unnoticed for 15 years. #Austerity since the 2008 crash has left local authorities short of skilled technical staff to evaluate infrastructure.

#UKpol has given itself a form of institutional #DunningKruger Syndrome: it has destroyed its own awareness of its failings.

newcivilengineer.com/latest/br…

Bridge deterioration unnoticed for 15 years raises alarm on lack of technical expertise | New Civil Engineer

The concern was raised anonymously in a report to Cross Safety. The reporter said the unspecified bridge, vital as a diversion route for a principal

^{Rob Hakimian (New Civil Engineer)}

White folks sure do love a good genocide, don’t they, though?

#UK #zionism #israel #genocide #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11568932…

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 🏴 (@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz)

Attached: 1 image Fuck me it gets worse #LabourAgentsOfGenocide #UKPolitics

^Syzito.xyz

A Grey Squirrel
the second image is a crop from the first showing the hide I was in reflected in the squirrels eye

#nature #squirrel #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #SqirrelsOfMastodon #UK

Funny how ‘annexation’ becomes ‘changing the map’ when it’s an ally. The West’s vocabulary shifts faster than its principles.

#Israel #Trump #Gaza #US #Hyprocrites #Europe #FreePalestine #Genocide #Uk #EU #Palestine #USPol #Zionism #Ukraine

This legislation is hugely important and politicians must never ever be empowered in this way. Digital ID is wrong on so many levels and for so many reasons I won't go into here. We absolutely do not need it in the #UK and it is anti-British and I am ashamed that this is even a discussion.

The answer is NO. NO to digital ID and you're sacked for even proposing it #STARMEROUT

#UK question: what is the difference between Civil Marriage and Civil Partnership in the UK (more specifically #Scotland if it changes anything)? Why would you choose one over the other? Is it just that "civil marriage" is more likely to get recognised internationally?

I can't seem to find any clear info on this online..
Edit:

• this Reddit thread gives some info, but mostly unsourced. In this one someone summarised the England & Wales rules.
• this page from what seems to be a legal firm is quite useful and focuses on Scottish law.

Basically it seems that the few legal differences are inconsequential.

#CivilPartnership #CivilMarriage

Civil Partnership or Marriage – What are the legal differences? - Gillespie Macandrew

We have prepared a helpful factsheet on the legal differences between becoming marital spouses or civil partners.

^{Lauren.Forgie@gillespiemacandrew.co.uk (Gillespie Macandrew)}

Green Party (of England & Wales) membership stood at around 68,000 when @ZackPolanski became leader & in not even 3 months, the party’s membership has increased by over 100,000 people!

That is not just a monumental shift, we are seeing the first signs of a literal restructuring of #UK politics.

The people yearn for compassionate and sensible #politics, not pandering to the rich and racist.
thecanary.co/trending/2025/11/…

The Green Party hits 170,000 members — and still climbing - Canary

The Green Party is still smashing it, adding members as fast as Labour are losing them — 200k by Christmas?

^{Willem Moore (The Canary)}

“GAZA: BRITAIN’S SEVENTH GENOCIDE”

by Mark Curtis in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK @UKLabour @palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews @AlJazeera

“Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia”

declassifieduk.org/gaza-britai…

#Press #UK #Britain #Genocide #Gaza #Biafra #Nigeria #Iraq #Kurds #Halabja #EastTimor #Indonesia #Zimbabwe #Rwanda #Bosnia #CrownImmunity

Gaza: Britain’s seventh genocide

Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

^{MARK CURTIS (Declassified Media ltd)}

#Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based #AgeVerification

The company sent letters to #Apple , #Google , and #Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing #porn , as #US and #UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.
#privacy #security

wired.com/story/pornhub-is-urg…

"Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms"
theguardian.com/society/2025/n…

Not just the NHS. Universities and the whole UKRI are under its grip, incomprehensibly. How was this frog ever not going to be boiled? And it's not for lack of good alternatives.

#NHS #UK #Microsoft #DigitalSovereignty

Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms

Samantha Niblett highlighted government’s multi-billion-pound deals with Microsoft and ‘getting locked in’

^{Robert Booth (The Guardian)}

The UK comedian and writer Robin Ince is giving Mastodon a go, you can follow him at:

➡️ @robinince

People unfamiliar with his work can find out more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_In…

#Comedy #UKComedy #UK #RobinInce #Comedians

English comedian, actor and writer

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

The UK and Denmark are so poor, so immoral, so without humanity, so uncivilised that they will steal the last belongings of refugees. What sad, pathetic countries. How embarrassed must their people be?

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/n…

#UK #Denmark #refugees #inhumanity #immorality #forShame

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister

Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

Westerners will literally steal from refugees rather than go to therapy.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/n…

#UK #Denmark #inhumanity #refugees

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister

Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

Why do I get the feeling that lately, in so many countries, new regulations are popping up with only one purpose - to erode privacy 🔓? It feels like a bad joke. I can't keep up anymore.

I wish I could fight them all at once, put pressure everywhere 🌍, no matter where I live. But I don't have the time. I'm already drowning in an endless to-do list.

Why couldn't the government set a different deadline? Why are they so determined to push this through? My mind can't wrap around it I just hope they come to their senses and never implement it 🙏

#Privacy #HumanRights #Switzerland #SwissPrivacy #EU #ChatControl #FightChatControl #UK #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #Surveillance #StopSurveillance

“Mandatory volunteering”, eh? If only there were a shorter word that described what that is.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/n…

#UK

UK charities condemn ‘immoral’ plans to force asylum seekers to volunteer

Making volunteering compulsory for refugees slammed as exploitative, bureaucratic and un-British

^{Patrick Butler (The Guardian)}