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Asda equal pay claim. Mainly upheld. Asda will appeal. Quite how they will pay for it given their current financial position remains to be seen.

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-02-03/historic-equal-pay-win-for-tens-of-thousands-of-asda-workers

I don't like courts deciding pay equivalence like this.

Equal pay legislation should be governing people being paid equally for the same job. Male vs female as warehouse workers, for example. Not two distinct jobs, just because there is a gender bias between different roles and the market rate differs

If the case, the law should be rewritten to stop it happening in the future.

Wait, Starmer had a voice coach? What on earth did he sound like before?

It sounds like there are serious questions to answer about the Sheffield stabbing. The perpetrator had apparently previously taken a machete into school and threatened to stab another student.

On latest figures, there are 244 knife homicides per year in the UK. That's one of the lowest rates in the whole world (per capita). It's half the rate they have in Germany, and a third of the rate they have in the Netherlands. The rate is five times higher in Puerto Rico and nearly seven times higher in the US. It's about eight times higher in Romania. Maybe it's worth reflecting that, while each such death is a tragedy, we are doing well overall as a nation.

@Tim_Walz

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Czech beavers build planned dams in protected landscape area, while local officials were still seeking permits

https://english.radio.cz/beavers-build-planned-dams-protected-landscape-area-while-local-officials-still-8841536

"The beavers saved us 30 million Czech korunas. They built the dams without any project documentation—and for free," said the head of the nature reserve administration.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/asteroid-2024-yr4

Sigh…

One percent chance but it’s been that sort of a decade hasn’t it?

No. Not going to happen. It would be like Forest losing five nil and then winning seven nil.

Given what we've learnt today, it's hardly surprising that Starmer's voice coaching was largely ineffective.
It doesn't really work when you're both wearing masks.

"Let's get ready to mumble!"

Asda equal pay claim. Mainly upheld. Asda will appeal. Quite how they will pay for it given their current financial position remains to be seen.

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-02-03/historic-equal-pay-win-for-tens-of-thousands-of-asda-workers

I’m staggered by this. If the shop floor workers want more money they can get a job in the warehouse. Why don’t they? How the feck is this sexual discrimination?
And people wonder why there is a backlash.

I appreciate the support but I am not doing it.