BillyTheRetard

The rent was reduced to a market rent. That's all the tribunal system does. Enough with the hysterics. This does not meet any reasonable definition of rent control. It's a form of mediation for landlords & tenants. Most landlords are fine with it. Just want proper resourcing.

Throwing rubbish in a landfill is (usually) better for the environment than recycling it. With few exceptions, recycling ends up emitting more CO2 and costing more money, while landfills are cheap and secure. - Recycling mid-tier plastics (like plastic bottles or butter tubs) costs thousands of dollars per ton of CO2 saved. It's cheaper to do direct air CO2 capture than that! And there is no shortage of plastic, nor any problem with sequestering it in the ground once we're done with it. - Modern landfills are extraordinarily secure and are *much* more than just big piles of trash. They capture 75%–95% of methane gas. Groundwater contamination is doesn't really happen with landfills built since 1990. A study of 31 landfills built since 1988 in NY found no adverse effect at all on local groundwater quality. - The crusade against single-use plastics has driven us to products that use far more materials and energy and would need to be used an absurd number of times to actually be an improvement. A steel straw needs to be used 150 times to be worth using. A ceramic mug needs to be used 1,000 times to beat a polystyrene cup. A cotton bag needs to be reused 173 times to beat single-use. - Some things ARE worth recycling. Recycling metal saves a huge amount of energy and material – recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy spent on making fresh stuff. So we do a lot of it already: about 30% of steel worldwide is recycled. Modern, well-run landfills cause minimal environmental damage. We have plenty of space for them – less than 0.01% of the US is used for landfill and only about 0.02% of Germany. We can even build on top of old landfills, so the land area is not spent permanently. New in @WorksInProgMag, @robertwiblin and @chalmermagne on why it's usually best to just bury your trash. worksinprogress.co/issue/jus…

"People from all over the world live together in one place — and it works." Author and campaigner @m00dyjonas tells @AyoCaesar why he loves living in Stoke — and how multiculturalism is right at the heart of it.

Annoyed about a name typo but happy to defend hounding a man to his death..... Fml White fragility in real time.

The face of pure hatred. An Irish citizen visiting France, tells two Jewish visitors he's sorry Hitler didn't finish the job. They started videoing him and he threatens to kill them. Identified himself as "Paddy from Ireland".

"Anyone who supports North Sea drilling is an extremist" @OliDugmore

Absolutely nothing will prepares you for what this wheelchair user does when the chairlift at a train station doesn’t work.

I recommend Camberwell as a place to move to in London, especially if you're planning on having kids. It's gentrifying nicely but it's still pretty cheap. It's pretty well connected transport-wise and it has some excellent shops, restaurants, pubs and parks - two of the best pubs in London, in fact, and one of the best parks. I see loads of young families around, and I gather the primary schools are good.

Getting banned from the local queer-owned coffee shop and lambic beer bar for praising gentrification.

Taxpayers spend £18bn a year subsidising housing in the capital Find out how social housing tenants are benefiting from government schemes ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/202…