Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Key events that make elections possible are set out in legislation and must be followed by returning officers, who are responsible for the conduct of elections in their constituencies."
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/timetable-for-the-2024-general-elec...
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The Wide Awake Club
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The UK is split into constituencies, and each constituency votes for an MP to represent them, using the first past the post system."
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/your-council/elections-and-voting/parliame...
"A briefing is being held for prospective candidates and election agents wanting to stand in those constituencies above on Wednesday 29 May at 5pm via MS Teams. This will give more information about this election and the election process, how to obtain and submit nomination papers, and how to pay the required £500 deposit."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbfK4wX6UZI
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/30/happy-94th-birthday...
'Same Old Song''
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"D:Ream’s founding members Peter Cunnah and Alan Mackenzie said they were dismayed to hear their song play through a loudspeaker as the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, called a 4 July general election on a wet afternoon in Downing Street. The pair told LBC their first thought was: “Not again.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/things-can-only...
“You question, are we just some sort of protest song on a speaker down at the end of a street? It’s like some very odd piece of gravity that you just can’t escape.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clee3445w0lo
"“I’ve learned the hard way. No, no, no. This is a change of guard, I don’t see this as an election. It’s just a change of guard, someone handing the baton on.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/31/robert-de-niro-deni...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUMCyAR6U0
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/01/space-warfare-mi...
Apparently, I won't fit up the stairs... ;-0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722n1x8lndo
'Fit for a Familiar'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"A cross between a film set, a theatre show and a party, the 70-minute experience presents a rose-tinted world spun from Michael Bond’s beloved stories about the bear from darkest Peru, slightly heightened and slightly magical."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/04/liberal-c...
"“We want people to feel they’re at the heart of the story,” Maller says. Having secured the lease for 15 years, everything is being built to last. They’ve even created their own marmalade, for sale at the end."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6bjW9OwSQc
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/03/hide-the-marmalade...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNdq_fUDyKo
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/03/dracula-centenary-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc1_9uNuDe0&list=RDjc1_9uNuDe0&start_rad...
'Ignatius'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always get in.” Sue Paling – wryly quoting a wise friend – is one of many undecided voters in Whitby."
"Doyle wrote: "I was much inclined to accept ... though my friends pictured me as winding up with a revolver at one ear and a razor at the other. However, the distance and my engagements presented a final bar."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/04/meet-whitby-wom...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7zvd34K4aU
https://www.theirvingsociety.org.uk/henry-irving-bram-stoker-a-working-r...
""My compliments on your very ingenious and very interesting adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ... can this be my old friend Joe Bell?"
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/more-parliamentary-cand...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC5wnPhTaCk
Never, Mind.
"“It is no wonder people are feeling disaffected,” said Heather Relf, a retired teacher for the deaf. “It doesn’t matter how much we protest.” She added: “There’s a sense that no one listens anyway, so why bother?”"
An East India Merchant.
I've actually been to the Reichenbach Falls and I'd forgotten why...
Oh yeah, some peace and quiet and somin to do with Cows.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/02/i-dont-want...
"It’s absolutely OK not to follow every cultural norm of the wedding ritual."
Thou must not Snort.
'Refocused'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"It will come as a surprise to many that telegraph poles do not need planning permission, and councils and residents are, indeed, powerless to stop them."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrr159z7pyo
"Not all residents appreciate its valour. The model village of Bournville was outraged when 100 poles sprouted in its strictly preserved streets."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEPTlhBmwRg
https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/jun/04/internet-provider-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOTlE1K90k
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/05/the-acolyte...
'Green Spaces'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Perhaps the most familiar use of helium is as a safe, non-flammable gas to fill party and parade balloons. However, helium is a critical component in many fields, including scientific research, medical technology, high-tech manufacturing, space exploration, and national defense."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/06/boeing-starliner...
"He pointed to the decline of bird species, toxic sewage in rivers, and the depletion of wildlife and nature across the UK as examples of why an urgent change of direction was needed. “Labour are the conservers, not the Conservatives,” he said."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEM2nEyvrMc
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/06/communities-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8kTjDs5qc
"“Looks like we picked up a couple more helium leaks,” mission control said. Wilmore responded: “We are ready to … find out exactly what you mean by picked up another helium leak, so give it to us.”"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGq-tSlneQ
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjllk8x353yo
"Probably the same group of ferals that Rob the coop all the time."
That's Entertainment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m94ip38UKs
'Unicorn Dot Com'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The Greens are reaching out to renters with a huge election commitment on new and environmentally-friendly housing, including a plan to let councils requisition empty properties or ones without proper insulation."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69111362
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jun/11/how-brit...
Here's one I made earlier...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353npO6ZJP0
"Now is the moment to be ambitious. Not unrealistic, but ambitious.”"
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8gLpaVNwfQ
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/12/green-party-uk-...
Bless.
"It also advised visitors to wear outdoor clothing, sturdy footwear and to be able to travel by boat and climb ladders up on to the island."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVmjKHkgxis
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-prestige-greatest-trick-is-its-endu...
"They’ll beg you and flatter you for the secret, but as soon as you give it up, you’ll be nothing to them. You understand? Nothing.”"
That's my home.
https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/mp-urges-swift-repairs-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5W8EBHNsLc
Thou must not Prod...
Short Jerky Movements.
'Frozen Wilderness'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"There are a few theories as to why a baker’s dozen became 13, but the most widely accepted one has to do with avoiding a beating."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clll8d2vd8yo
"Only by growing the economy can Labour generate the funds needed for public services, he argued."
"If we could grow the economy at anything like the level the last Labour government did, that’s an extra £70bn worth of investment for our public services," he added... "The manifesto is around 23,000 words long, we are told – that is shorter than their doomed offering in 2019."
"There may be fluctuations in rising and baking and air content, and many of these bakers didn’t even have scales to weigh their dough."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/12/election-p...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM51xoTC2U
""Afterwards, it was what you would call the scientific age. In the pantheon of polar ships, Quest is definitely an icon.""
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/12/victoria-t-rex-f...
Hmmm ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7Vn_WKkWU
"The technology company is to hold a public meeting with local people next week as it seeks permission from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to use the airspace around its warehouse on the edge of the town, in the north-east of England."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gx6n8w38ro
'Fayre & Square'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"“How do I go to work now and try to get our sponsorship and get our grant money for breaking programs [for a sport] that’s just been made a mockery of? And how do we go and represent our country at other world level events when Australia’s been made a fool of? … This is actually affecting us on a much larger scale than just memes.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/14/raygun-br...
""And I thought, 'Let's not complain, let's go back to my original circles map and let's make it better this time'."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9843r0dz3go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHtrM-jf9o
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/13/what-do-i-d...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwMq1VPV7I
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cly8r686984o
"... he was obviously going to jump and gravity, if nothing else, would ensure that this stunt, at least, couldn’t be dragged out for ever."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSC0DhCzPaw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4ywe14gn4o
lol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yj05yvwv6o
Agent Orange.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/dec/10/australias...
Thou must not tell Fibs.
""With either merger, another corporation will have that increased control over what we see, what we hear and what news we consume," Booker said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydndkmvy2o
'Nobody's Home'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Since the boom of the 1990s, when Zoe Ball famously had a pole in her living room, pole has been taught at dance studios, has become a competition sport – there’s a campaign to get it into the Olympics – and made its way from cabaret stages to theatres. It’s an impressive and fiendishly difficult art."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkpiz2-oHM
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-t...
"Meanwhile in nearby Pickering, studies are underway which could see geothermal wells at the town’s leisure centre and a primary school. Pickering Town Community Interest Company (CIC) has also established a group of volunteer geothermal champions to further the cause of sustainable community energy."
https://yorknorthyorks-ca.gov.uk/ryedale-trailblazes-geothermal-energy-w...
It's an Olympic Sport... ;-0
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/18/pole-dancing-strip-clubs-s...
"“The backs of my knees feel like a lizard,” says Alm, “but I need that to hang on there.”"
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0eLr_sjaYQ
The Slightly Awkward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObzgUfCl28&list=RDqObzgUfCl28&start_rad...
I was just clearing my Desktop ...-0
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/6ZJTycL81MPwTQ0XZCVvrj/five-in...
'Theme Parks'
Submitted by Captain Qahn on
"Anybody who wants to walk into a construction site that's nice and clean and sparkling, it's our honour to have you do so," he said."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxq63dqp93n1o
""He also presented Xi with a sculpture of a bald eagle, America's national symbol, saying it embodied "the free and soaring spirit of America."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqm2mgk6mlddo
"For their first course guests enjoyed yellow squash, wild mushrooms and crispy pancetta. The ate off red tablecloths - red being a symbol of luck and good fortune in China. For their main course they dined on a sesame-crusted sea bass, braised bok choy and roasted eggplant."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL0NXKprKnQ&list=RDcL0NXKprKnQ&start_rad...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00311qb/wham-10-days-in-china
The Bigbam Boo.