Britain is paying the price for failing to invest in its young people:

...there is mounting evidence that the consequences of the Tory spending cuts are maturing with disastrous consequences.

I am hardly an expert, and even I said cutting funding for families with babies is storing up big problems for later, when chatting with other parents at baby group 14 years ago. Perhaps it isn't a popular topic and makes me awkward, but what's new.

This sounds like our issues with grant funding writ large.

‘We was hoodwinked’: Inside the ex-mining town that backed Brexit despite millions of pounds of EU funding

They want the 'sexy' projects to fund, and not the fundamental things non-profits do to keep history, culture, and community alive.

I am so, so tired of these posters for events that are clearly created by the same 'AI generator'. It's dull and it's uninspiring. I'm not anywhere near a designer, but please, I beg of you: when you prompt, go into more detail and get the software to produce a design that is a little more unique to your organisation.

Today, I voted tactically for our borough council elections (to help keep the total idiots out of the ward, who I voted for have actually done a decent job). I voted based on principle for parish council elections (no total idiots running in the ward).

We need preferential voting, man.

What if the other guy said,

I actually wonder how good he is at understanding Farsi, because there are things that he said that, frankly, didn’t make sense in the context of the negotiations.

Vance says US never promised Lebanon ceasefire