Nobody Cares about Britain

[Free]

Laura Kuenssberg beyond parody (@normalisland.co.uk)

This is not satire x

bsky.app

 

[Beebo Brink]

Forecasters and flood defences under scrutiny after UK’s Storm Bert ordeal | Flooding | The Guardian

Forecasters, environment officials and politicians have been strongly criticised over the warnings issued before Storm Bert and the fitness of flood defences to cope with increasingly common extreme weather.

A huge clear-up is under way across swathes of Wales and England, with hundreds of properties flooded and a former Welsh mining town hit by a landslip from a coal tip, leaving buildings deep in sludge and mud.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Forecasters and flood defences under scrutiny after UK’s Storm Bert ordeal | Flooding | The Guardian

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

Man arrested over property damage after tractor driven through flooded UK town https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/26/man-arrested-over-damage-to-properties-after-tractor-driven-through-flooded-uk-town?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

bsky.app

The video is quite something. What an idiot.

Also,

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

In Wales, we’re one more flood away from another disaster like Aberfan | Aaron Thierry https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/26/wales-valleys-floods-aberfan-climate-adaptation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

bsky.app

Aberfan was a terrible disaster back in 1966, when heavy rain caused the slag heap of the Aberfan colliery to landslide down into the neighbouring village, where it crashed into the village junior school (ages 8 -- 11 at the time, I think). Five teachers and 109 children were killed.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Boris Johnson blames the Church of England for Britain's obesity crisis

George Peretz KC (@georgeperetzkc.bsky.social)

Johnson’s complaint is the rather interesting one, from the right, that the Church should stop banging on about the Bible and concentrate on social welfare issues.

bsky.app

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

Anger in Traveller community after children ‘forced on to trains’ by Manchester police https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/26/gypsy-traveller-children-forced-on-trains-police-manchester-dispersal-notice?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

bsky.app

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Paul Fairie (@paulisci.bsky.social)

A Brief History of British People Are Lazy 🧵

bsky.app

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Legendary British luxury car maker Jaguar has launched its big reband a few days ago with this video:


And this is now the official new logo:

Which has nothing any more in common with its predecessor, which is iconic and looked like this:

Suffice to say people are less than hyped about this rebrand, which seems to be targeted at the LGBT+ community. Instead they are worried. Many say the video would be ok-ish for a perfume brand, but not a car maker. Aside that there is no emotional connection nor message in this video. In short it's a total desaster.

It looks like Jaguar wants to move away from old buyers like Jeremy Clarkson to a much younger, more hip customer base.

Of course since Jaguar is a British brand owned nowadays by an Indian company, Nigel Farage is not far away with his own comment.

Utkarsh Mohan, who is running the Youtube channel "Ministry of Car", gives a deeper look at it why he thinks the rebrand is a big fail from a marketing standpoint. He's been managing the brands Gilette, Braun and Venus in Japan and South Korea, so has got experience in evaluating campaigns and their values. The result based on his criteria: a total disaster, a meltdown.

A video making fun about possible new designs.

 

[Beebo Brink]

And the scorn and the laughter continues....

 

[Casey Pelous]

Well, would anyone want to move toward Jeremy Clarkson?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Number of empty properties in Liverpool as homelessness soars

With the city gripped by a rough sleeping emergency, work is ongoing to reduce the shocking number of long-term vacant

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well, would anyone want to move toward Jeremy Clarkson?

People like Clarkson are the main buyers of Jaguar. Until now. With this rebranding Jaguar decided "Screw 'em, we want a new customer base" and showed them the middle finger, taking the risk that the new customer base might never come or be as powerful in terms of money.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Elon the Musk wants to see Jaguars' new car line up... or something like that.


Jaguar also will stop producing new cars now for 1 year, and then only sell electric vehicles from 2026 on.

Jaguar has NO new cars on sale for a year

Jaguar has ceased selling all petrol and diesel models for the first time since WW2 as it terminates its 102-year relationship with the internal combustion engine.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Central Bylines (@centralbylines.bsky.social)

A great British bookshelf revolt buries Johnson’s Unleashed A new craze is sweeping the nation’s bookshops up and down the country in a peaceful protest about a certain disgraced ex-PM’s book Unleashed @gemmagould.bsky.social...

bsky.app

British booksellers and their customers make imaginative shelving and re-shelving decisions for Boris Johnson's memoirs.

 

[Casey Pelous]

People like Clarkson ....

This is horrible news. You are saying there is more than one example of The Clarkson.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

PETA strikes again

PETA's fox pub name row 'undermines real issues'

Critics respond to PETA's suggestion The Sly Old Fox should change its name because its derogatory.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Free]

PETA strikes again

PETA's fox pub name row 'undermines real issues'

Critics respond to PETA's suggestion The Sly Old Fox should change its name because its derogatory.

www.bbc.co.uk

I dunno. If someone called me a sly old fox, I'd suspect they were hitting on me.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I dunno. If someone called me a sly old fox, I'd suspect they were hitting on me.

But you're not a fox, you're a cat! Unless you want to be a foxgirl, you sly old foxgirl you.

 

[Free]

But you're not a fox, you're a cat! Unless you want to be a foxgirl, you sly old foxgirl you.

If they don't know me, the ears might be mistaken for a fox's.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]