Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
That well known poor developing country Singapore.
Deliberate misreporting going on here in a couple of sources I checked - it's not for Singapore, it's money from the development budget to be part of a fund lead by Singapore to provide capital for green transition in Asia where it is not commercially viable but still useful.
Given that we are now in CPTPP, it seems a useful partnership to develop.
And here's what it is actually: About Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership The Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (“FAST-P"), a Singapore-led blended finance initiative in collaboration with key global public, private and philanthropic partners, aims to mobilise up to US$5 billion to de-risk and finance transition and marginally bankable green projects in Asia. The Singapore Government will pledge up to US$500 million as concessional capital, to match dollar-for-dollar, concessional capital from other partners, including other governments, multilateral development finance institutions and philanthropies. https://www.mas.gov.sg/news/media-releases/2025/singapore-uk-collaborate-on-energy-transition-sustainable-infrastructure-investments-in-sea
Singapore promised $500m for this scheme at COP29 (we already make loads of our own commitments), we are now giving them basically 20% of that. It still stands they are an incredibly rich and can fund this commitment they made themselves.
"Whilst acknowledging Mr Wallace’s autism diagnosis, which is relevant to certain behaviours identified in the report and accepting that the production could have done more to identify, manage and communicate patterns of inappropriate behaviour, the volume and consistency of substantiated allegations, ranging between 2005 and 2024, make Gregg Wallace’s return to MasterChef untenable"
Looks like his autism defence gets a nod. I call that bullsh*t!
Being a rail enthusiast, I encounter a fair number of people on the austistic spectrum.
But none of them have ever dropped their trousers and got their tackle out.
If the defense lawyers have their way, autistic people will be unemployable.
If you add up over the years, the things that have been claimed to be out of their control, we have
- violence, to the point of murder - hacking and cybercrime - now sexual predation.
And neurotypical people have been sacked or convicted of all the above too.
However autism can be considered in sentencing by judges as can any other mental health disorder
There's a foolproof way to help England take another wicket: stop watching for a few minutes.
I have missed every single wicket this morning, during 4 broief breaks - one bathroom, one delivery, one looking for phone, one "doing a quick tidy"
I have literally been rivetted otherwise!
If you don't mind can you lock your in the toilet from about 1.40pm for a couple of hours.
Wouldn't a couple of minutes be better?
The remainder of the month sounds better still.
Shut up, pleb
Stop picking on me you patrician!
Barty Bobbins came up with almost the same comment as me a mere post after mine. Granted it was written in his usual swashbuckling style as befits a pirate, rather than that of an illiterate dustman.
Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
That well known poor developing country, check notes, with one of the highest GPD / Capita in the world, Singapore.
It's money for investment, not aid. We get it back, don't we?
"Whilst acknowledging Mr Wallace’s autism diagnosis, which is relevant to certain behaviours identified in the report and accepting that the production could have done more to identify, manage and communicate patterns of inappropriate behaviour, the volume and consistency of substantiated allegations, ranging between 2005 and 2024, make Gregg Wallace’s return to MasterChef untenable"
Looks like his autism defence gets a nod. I call that bullsh*t!
Being a rail enthusiast, I encounter a fair number of people on the austistic spectrum.
But none of them have ever dropped their trousers and got their tackle out.
If the defense lawyers have their way, autistic people will be unemployable.
If you add up over the years, the things that have been claimed to be out of their control, we have
- violence, to the point of murder - hacking and cybercrime - now sexual predation.
And neurotypical people have been sacked or convicted of all the above too.
However autism can be considered in sentencing by judges as can any other mental health disorder
Autism isn't a mental health "disorder"
I think the definition is so wide that it both is and isn't.
Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
That well known poor developing country, check notes, with one of the highest GPD / Capita in the world, Singapore.
It's money for investment, not aid. We get it back, don't we?
In theory perhaps, check notes of all the outstanding loans given to Africa for infrastructure that nobody will never get back, with the constant calls for just writing it all off.
I don't see the need for the UK to be providing 20% of the funding to a scheme that Singapore voluntary committed and can easily afford.
"Whilst acknowledging Mr Wallace’s autism diagnosis, which is relevant to certain behaviours identified in the report and accepting that the production could have done more to identify, manage and communicate patterns of inappropriate behaviour, the volume and consistency of substantiated allegations, ranging between 2005 and 2024, make Gregg Wallace’s return to MasterChef untenable"
Looks like his autism defence gets a nod. I call that bullsh*t!
Being a rail enthusiast, I encounter a fair number of people on the austistic spectrum.
But none of them have ever dropped their trousers and got their tackle out.
If the defense lawyers have their way, autistic people will be unemployable.
If you add up over the years, the things that have been claimed to be out of their control, we have
- violence, to the point of murder - hacking and cybercrime - now sexual predation.
And neurotypical people have been sacked or convicted of all the above too.
However autism can be considered in sentencing by judges as can any other mental health disorder
Autism isn't a mental health "disorder"
I think the definition is so wide that it both is and isn't.
It's a neurodevelopmental disorder, quite different from mental illness (although people on the Spectrum do suffer more from mental ill health than the neurotypical do). So it's a lifelong condition, rather than an illness.
Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
That well known poor developing country Singapore.
Deliberate misreporting going on here in a couple of sources I checked - it's not for Singapore, it's money from the development budget to be part of a fund lead by Singapore to provide capital for green transition in Asia where it is not commercially viable but still useful.
Given that we are now in CPTPP, it seems a useful partnership to develop.
And here's what it is actually: About Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership The Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (“FAST-P"), a Singapore-led blended finance initiative in collaboration with key global public, private and philanthropic partners, aims to mobilise up to US$5 billion to de-risk and finance transition and marginally bankable green projects in Asia. The Singapore Government will pledge up to US$500 million as concessional capital, to match dollar-for-dollar, concessional capital from other partners, including other governments, multilateral development finance institutions and philanthropies. https://www.mas.gov.sg/news/media-releases/2025/singapore-uk-collaborate-on-energy-transition-sustainable-infrastructure-investments-in-sea
Singapore promised $500m for this scheme at COP29 (we already make loads of our own commitments), we are now giving them basically 20% of that. It still stands they are an incredibly rich and can fund this commitment they made themselves.
Why does Britain need to finance Asia's transition to green energy?
"Whilst acknowledging Mr Wallace’s autism diagnosis, which is relevant to certain behaviours identified in the report and accepting that the production could have done more to identify, manage and communicate patterns of inappropriate behaviour, the volume and consistency of substantiated allegations, ranging between 2005 and 2024, make Gregg Wallace’s return to MasterChef untenable"
Looks like his autism defence gets a nod. I call that bullsh*t!
Being a rail enthusiast, I encounter a fair number of people on the austistic spectrum.
But none of them have ever dropped their trousers and got their tackle out.
If the defense lawyers have their way, autistic people will be unemployable.
If you add up over the years, the things that have been claimed to be out of their control, we have
- violence, to the point of murder - hacking and cybercrime - now sexual predation.
And neurotypical people have been sacked or convicted of all the above too.
However autism can be considered in sentencing by judges as can any other mental health disorder
Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
That well known poor developing country Singapore.
Deliberate misreporting going on here in a couple of sources I checked - it's not for Singapore, it's money from the development budget to be part of a fund lead by Singapore to provide capital for green transition in Asia where it is not commercially viable but still useful.
Given that we are now in CPTPP, it seems a useful partnership to develop.
And here's what it is actually: About Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership The Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (“FAST-P"), a Singapore-led blended finance initiative in collaboration with key global public, private and philanthropic partners, aims to mobilise up to US$5 billion to de-risk and finance transition and marginally bankable green projects in Asia. The Singapore Government will pledge up to US$500 million as concessional capital, to match dollar-for-dollar, concessional capital from other partners, including other governments, multilateral development finance institutions and philanthropies. https://www.mas.gov.sg/news/media-releases/2025/singapore-uk-collaborate-on-energy-transition-sustainable-infrastructure-investments-in-sea
Singapore promised $500m for this scheme at COP29 (we already make loads of our own commitments), we are now giving them basically 20% of that. It still stands they are an incredibly rich and can fund this commitment they made themselves.
Why does Britain need to finance Asia's transition to green energy?
Investment apparently, we'll be getting a return at some point according to @bondegezou; which would certainly make a change to Starmer, Miliband, Lammy & Reeves other "investments".
Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
That well known poor developing country Singapore.
Deliberate misreporting going on here in a couple of sources I checked - it's not for Singapore, it's money from the development budget to be part of a fund lead by Singapore to provide capital for green transition in Asia where it is not commercially viable but still useful.
Given that we are now in CPTPP, it seems a useful partnership to develop.
And here's what it is actually: About Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership The Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (“FAST-P"), a Singapore-led blended finance initiative in collaboration with key global public, private and philanthropic partners, aims to mobilise up to US$5 billion to de-risk and finance transition and marginally bankable green projects in Asia. The Singapore Government will pledge up to US$500 million as concessional capital, to match dollar-for-dollar, concessional capital from other partners, including other governments, multilateral development finance institutions and philanthropies. https://www.mas.gov.sg/news/media-releases/2025/singapore-uk-collaborate-on-energy-transition-sustainable-infrastructure-investments-in-sea
Singapore promised $500m for this scheme at COP29 (we already make loads of our own commitments), we are now giving them basically 20% of that. It still stands they are an incredibly rich and can fund this commitment they made themselves.
Why does Britain need to finance Asia's transition to green energy?
Asia has been booming, ~5% growth. Poorer countries like Vietnam much more. They can access renewables from China very cheaply.
Foreign secretary David Lammy is in Singapore today announcing a new UK-Singapore Green Energy collaboration. As part of the deal, he’s pledged £70 million of UK taxpayers’ money to support Singapore’s “clean energy transition”.
That well known poor developing country Singapore.
Deliberate misreporting going on here in a couple of sources I checked - it's not for Singapore, it's money from the development budget to be part of a fund lead by Singapore to provide capital for green transition in Asia where it is not commercially viable but still useful.
Given that we are now in CPTPP, it seems a useful partnership to develop.
And here's what it is actually: About Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership The Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (“FAST-P"), a Singapore-led blended finance initiative in collaboration with key global public, private and philanthropic partners, aims to mobilise up to US$5 billion to de-risk and finance transition and marginally bankable green projects in Asia. The Singapore Government will pledge up to US$500 million as concessional capital, to match dollar-for-dollar, concessional capital from other partners, including other governments, multilateral development finance institutions and philanthropies. https://www.mas.gov.sg/news/media-releases/2025/singapore-uk-collaborate-on-energy-transition-sustainable-infrastructure-investments-in-sea
Singapore promised $500m for this scheme at COP29 (we already make loads of our own commitments), we are now giving them basically 20% of that. It still stands they are an incredibly rich and can fund this commitment they made themselves.
Why does Britain need to finance Asia's transition to green energy?
Investment apparently, we'll be getting a return at some point according to @bondegezou; which would certainly make a change to Starmer, Miliband, Lammy & Reeves other "investments".
These investments schemes are what they call concessional capital i.e. loans at well below market rate. So it isn't really an investment in terms of if you do get the money finally back inflation will have eaten up whatever interest was charged. And that's an if.
"Whilst acknowledging Mr Wallace’s autism diagnosis, which is relevant to certain behaviours identified in the report and accepting that the production could have done more to identify, manage and communicate patterns of inappropriate behaviour, the volume and consistency of substantiated allegations, ranging between 2005 and 2024, make Gregg Wallace’s return to MasterChef untenable"
Looks like his autism defence gets a nod. I call that bullsh*t!
Being a rail enthusiast, I encounter a fair number of people on the austistic spectrum.
But none of them have ever dropped their trousers and got their tackle out.
If the defense lawyers have their way, autistic people will be unemployable.
If you add up over the years, the things that have been claimed to be out of their control, we have
- violence, to the point of murder - hacking and cybercrime - now sexual predation.
And neurotypical people have been sacked or convicted of all the above too.
However autism can be considered in sentencing by judges as can any other mental health disorder
"Whilst acknowledging Mr Wallace’s autism diagnosis, which is relevant to certain behaviours identified in the report and accepting that the production could have done more to identify, manage and communicate patterns of inappropriate behaviour, the volume and consistency of substantiated allegations, ranging between 2005 and 2024, make Gregg Wallace’s return to MasterChef untenable"
Looks like his autism defence gets a nod. I call that bullsh*t!
Being a rail enthusiast, I encounter a fair number of people on the austistic spectrum.
But none of them have ever dropped their trousers and got their tackle out.
If the defense lawyers have their way, autistic people will be unemployable.
If you add up over the years, the things that have been claimed to be out of their control, we have
- violence, to the point of murder - hacking and cybercrime - now sexual predation.
And neurotypical people have been sacked or convicted of all the above too.
However autism can be considered in sentencing by judges as can any other mental health disorder
Autism isn't a mental health "disorder"
I think the definition is so wide that it both is and isn't.
It's a neurodevelopmental disorder, quite different from mental illness (although people on the Spectrum do suffer more from mental ill health than the neurotypical do). So it's a lifelong condition, rather than an illness.
I thought you were taking issue with it being called a disorder?
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Barty Bobbins came up with almost the same comment as me a mere post after mine. Granted it was written in his usual swashbuckling style as befits a pirate, rather than that of an illiterate dustman.
I don't see the need for the UK to be providing 20% of the funding to a scheme that Singapore voluntary committed and can easily afford.
Got 50 in the first innings.
It's Jadeja vu all over again.
Now hit your own wicket...
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