I’m not normally one to call for harsher sentencing, however, four months, suspended for two years doesn’t seem like nearly enough of a sentence. The absolute horror of what she did is mind bending.

Exactly, well said.

3. Not sitting on your arse all day

This kind of moral judgement type of advice really doesn’t help. As for the other two, that’s true if you want to drop a few Kgs. Obesity comes with hormonal changes that work like a conveyor belt dragging a person towards more weight. It takes more effort to stay still than I think you believe it takes to lose it all.

On top of that, dieting triggers a hormonal process that seeks calorific foods and holds on to more of those calories. This has evolved to help us survive food shortages, but is backfiring on a population wide level now that food is no longer scarce. If dieting were the answer then Weight Watchers and Slimming World would have solved this problem decades ago. Instead they encouraged people to fall into the yo-yo diet trap that leads to ever more weight going on each time the cycle completes.

This is all hormonal, not willpower driven.

What GLP-1 inhibitors do is to shut down or quieten this hormonal response. This means that people can then do the obvious bit of eating less and moving more without their own bodies sabotaging them.

I like the aesthetic, with a Norman style keep and the gatehouse on the curtain wall.

Have you considered digging a moat around the outside of the curtain wall? You could flood it too, but most actual medieval moats were dry. Their main function is to make the walls harder to ladder over and to stop siege towers from reaching the walls.

Yes, Nigel Farage praised the appointment as the article says.

Farage has meanwhile said that he “might disagree with Mandelson on his politics, but he’s a very intelligent man” and would be good choice for ambassador.

BBC News - Peter Mandelson ‘honoured’ to be appointed US ambassador https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvnlxxp8jko

This is the most evil comment I’ve seen in a very long time. The thought of someone burdening themselves with high interest debt. Debt that they don’t have the money to pay back. because if they don’t, they’ll die. That’s sickening.

Unless of course you think it’s a serious solution. Then it’s just plain ignorant. Clinical idiocy levels of stupid.

Kilometers are too small for our giant country.

Fortunately for NASA, space is actually smaller than the USA. Otherwise km would be totally unworkable.

I’m guessing that you have to use meters instead of yards when designing tall buildings? Yards would be too small for most skyscrapers.