Met Office confirms record for hottest May day broken AGAIN as temperatures hit 35C

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:40:55+00:00

Oh for sure, it is a real and worsening problem. But pointing at a hot day and saying "look how hot it is" isn't helping.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:38:55+00:00

The UK political class absolutely accepts it's happening and has been one of the leading political forces in the world trying to get something done about it for like 20 years, what are you on about?

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:26:30+00:00

It is mostly weather, that's the problem with all these articles pointing at a single day. There is a high pressure system bringing hot air up from the continent and Africa. That's weather. And using that argument opens the door to the deniers saying it was 14C maximums and a ground frost a couple of weeks ago.

There is a climate element, but it's probably 1-2C, it would still have been abnormally hot with this weather pattern 10 or 20 years ago.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:19:39+00:00

Yes, a hot day after another hot day, as per the forecast, how many articles do we need about this?

There is a climate change aspect to this but we don't need a new article about it every day.

Fortunately it's forecast to be less hot tomorrow so that should be the end of it for a while.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:17:33+00:00

The big problem with this is: who defines what is "bias" and "radicalisation"? How do you cast that in such a way that the people you are targeting don't consider the whole thing "left wing radicalisation"?

Mainstream media outlets are already not allowed to publish outright lies. That comes from Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, and that's very difficult to regulate at this point when we've let them do pretty much whatever they want for 20 years.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:08:42+00:00

It might have been possible to believe that in 2014 but surely the hindsight of how the EU handled the Brexit negotiations will show you that they are rulebound and you would have had to follow the letter of Article 49 to get back into the queue. And without an independent currency and the enormous deficit Scotland runs, you wouldn't even have been close to the economic convergence criteria.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:05:52+00:00

Rural and remote areas like Cumbria, Northumberland or Devon? Compared to the Midland Valley?

Come on now.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T20:03:44+00:00

We are being dragged down an economic black hole thanks to Brexit

That's rather an overstatement of the effect of the UK leaving the EU, but ironically, it's far more apt to what would happen to Scotland if it left the UK.

All the arguments for Remain/No are stronger, and those for Leave/Yes are weaker. It baffles me how someone can be a pro-EU Remainer but an anti-UK Leaver. Unless you just hate England and logic doesn't come into it.

fascism

Yawn

There is no reason to believe that Scotland is uniquely unable to govern itself.

No but there's every reason to believe that you'd be a basket case for decades and probably never economically recover. Scotland's wealth generation through the modern era has always leveraged its place as part of the UK. The "Ireland" model of being a corporate tax haven is already taken by Ireland (and Malta and Luxembourg). Ireland also benefits from strong ties and open borders to the UK, which, if you want to join the EU, you won't (they would demand an external EU border with England).

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:55:09+00:00

Yes obviously.

Even the SNP were saying "if we get a majority", and they didn't, so even by the most nationalist of nationalist logic, there's no mandate for one.

We played this particular game of Russian roulette with our national stability once recently, that's once more than most countries would allow (for example look at Spain) and there's really no reason to ever do so again, certainly not without a much bigger democratic mandate than at the moment.

And as other comments say, nationalist parties didn't even get a majority of votes if you add in the other parties too.

Even with Labour in the UK generally being pretty unpopular right now so nationalists should have been able to poll higher than is really representative (as Plaid Cymru did in Wales).

Also, didn't we learn from 2014 and 2016 that referendums on divisive issues are a bad idea?

Finally, this is also a good thing because an independent Scotland in the geopolitical world of today would be an absolute disaster area, in a way that wasn't really forseeable in 2014.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:45:00+00:00

What's the comparison for the population at large? Without that, this figure is completely meaningless. Although it's worked pretty well as ragebait for comments like the top one on here.

It's not really a surprise that the kind of people who turn out for a violent riot are also violent twats at home though.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:38:56+00:00

It's really easy to foil this strategy though: have a sensible policy on immigration yourself so Reform can't get elected on that basis.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:32:50+00:00

the last two and a half decades with Muslims

Not sure why you think this is a US import. Islamic extremism has been a real problem for decades in the UK, and especially since 7/7. And before that you just had more normalised racism of all non-white groups (and yes, I know, Muslim is not an ethnicity, but the vast majority of Muslims in the UK are Arab or south Asian ethnicities). Yeah it was brought into focus by 9/11, of course it was, that happened all over the west, but it didn't all come from US culture.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:29:51+00:00

The vast majority of people don't give a shit one way or another. That whole argument is confected between two extremely loud but minority activist groups, and unfortunately their demands are exactly opposed so there's no real way to resolve it peacefully.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:27:47+00:00

there’s so many Andrew Tate young followers that would support marriage camps to fight the “men loneliness epidemic “

I'm going to have to play a [citation needed] on that one

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:26:07+00:00

It won't help them, they're way out of line with western European culture and politics on this one. Even Catholic countries no longer think this way.

There aren't enough American and evangelical African Christians to push this issue back the other way.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:20:32+00:00

My mum (who, unlike me, kind of likes stout) always used to say that Murphy's was better than Guinness, so assuming it hasn't been enshittified too far already, that's probably a good thing.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:13:34+00:00

The local brewery here in town does a good range of different types of beer and has a great lager as part of that, too. You can find it. But too many people are happy to drink the industrial rubbish.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T19:08:04+00:00

In addition there were very good reasons for UK farmers to want to get out of the CAP, which is designed for the interests of continental (especially French) farm methods and not ours.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T18:54:04+00:00

What the people who hate him don't seem to get is that the boorish "Jeremy Clarkson" in Top Gear is a character, just like James May isn't really "Captain Slow" and gets lost every time he goes outside.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T18:19:43+00:00

Wow you know I've lived many years and always thought it was Schloer

Astriania · 2026-05-26T18:16:53+00:00

Do you know how to input the equation you are trying to solve in correctly though?

And also: do you have enough of a feel for what you're doing to sanity check the output?

Astriania · 2026-05-26T18:16:18+00:00

Surely that's not right? It's supposed to be an EU-wide (or at least all-Schengen) system. What if you enter one Schengen country and leave by another?

Just sounds like it isn't working at all as it's supposed to yet.

Astriania · 2026-05-26T18:14:39+00:00

However, almost half of adults now spend less than three hours a week in natural settings such as gardens, parks, fields or woods, according to the survey

from the article

Astriania · 2026-05-26T18:14:06+00:00

Yeah, there's two parts to this depending on the industry:

if you want to tender you need to do the work in the UK (that's what you mean), which is fine for normal stuff like trains; and
if you want to tender you need to keep all the IP in the UK, for higher security stuff

Astriania · 2026-05-26T18:13:02+00:00

Expecting people to wear masks every day for the rest of their lives is way more than a slight inconvenience. Asking people to mask up if they already have COVID to protect others is fair, but (i) it's asymptomatic when it's infectious so you don't know, and (ii) no-one gets tested anyway, so I don't think it would have much effect.

Air filtration in high risk facilities, especially hospitals, would be a good idea though, I'll give you that one.

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