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The Kobeissi Letter
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BREAKING: The US has developed a "15-point plan" to end the Iran War and claims that Iran has agreed to many of the key points, per Axios.

Details include:

1. Proposal includes many of the same demands the US made during the last round of nuclear talks in Geneva

2. US envoy Steve Witkoff has told Trump that Iran has agreed on giving up their stockpile of highly enriched uranium

3. The document calls for zero uranium enrichment in Iran

4. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned Trump might strike a deal that falls well short of Israel's objectives

Iran continues to deny that talks are taking place.


https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2036531066832339089

I can believe Iran may well be lying about that. Obviously Trump and co do lie too, but the regime in Tehran has incentive to not admit to talks.

How surprising. (The summary is overdramatic in its specificity though).

Councils are ignoring explicit instructions to approve planning projects from ministers - as the scale and cost of their resistance to development is revealed for the first time.

https://news.sky.com/story/a-declaration-of-war-how-councils-are-resisting-one-of-labours-core-objectives-13523659?

Councillors often believe their job in respect of planning is to represent their residents, which is not technically true as their job in that context is to consider proposals against national and local planning policy, which has very different objectives to local people.

Which, of course, is why the government wants to seriously reduce the power of councils to refuse things.

And councillors on planning committees are, in effect, doing a judicial role. Which is a data point against electing judges.

I just know that someone will pop up with words to the effect that the primary role of a councillor of course is to represent their residents, but that is just ignoring the realities that every decision-maker - political, business, judicial - has to operate within specific rules, operate to certain requirements, take account of certain things and sometimes not to take account of other things. And in planning the public view is a factor, but is never and was never meant to be the sole or overriding determinant.

And when councillors pretend otherwise for short term popularity, they just lose on appeal and their residents pay even more to cover the costs. But they calculate - correctly - that the public don't care about the additional cost to that public, so chase the cheap headline.

(For sake of balance obviously lots of councillor decisions against officer recommendation do not end up being overrturned in such a manner, some things are judgement calls they can reasonably make - but those are judgement calls which policy allows).

I've bought fancy cooking knives that are so sharp I cut myself on first usage, ten minutes ago, and now I'm scared of them

I have a selection of reasonably sharp knives, and I bought a single fancy Japanese kitchen knife. I opened the box to look at it and cut myself

Hah!

Yes, that's me, I've bough

A sharp knife seems to have cut off the end of your comment. I'd be careful with that if I were you. Might do yourself an injury.

Here is my toothbrush jar-holder

I defy any PBer to show me a prettier toothbrush jar-holder

Yes, that is definitely in the top 0.1% of toothbrush jar-holders, though I haven't done such a detailed study to be absolutely certain that it won't be topped.