Doomsday dreams!

What do some of the bods at NASA lose sleep over? Being unable to deflect an asteroid or comet fragment over 460 feet in diameter which could cause serious damage if it hit the Earth.
    A trial in 2022 succeeded in changing the orbit of an asteroid. But there is nothing standing by now to deflect a killer chunk of space debris should one be detected sneaking up on us.

More Obfuscation

Bier Smarmer is using the alibi that he is a common sense merchant for his many U-turns. No information is on offer about where common sense comes in to it – for the original idea or the decision to junk it when his back-benchers saw a threat to their income.

Water wings at the ready

Soggy news for those Up North. It’s going to keep on raining until mid-March, says the Met Office.
    Floods, none of the rain going into reservoirs and hosepipe bans to follow?

Dictator dented

How very strange that the vast army of lawyers in and around Parliament failed to spot that the ‘necessary modernization’ to put local government deeper into Labour’s pocket was illegal and no excuse for cancelling council elections.
    All asleep on the job? Or just not up to it, like lawyer Bier?
    On the brighter side, it has been pointed out that if he can’t scrap local elections, he won’t be able to scrap the 2029 general election. Or rather, his successor won’t be able to.

Green elephant

Around £24 million of taxpayers’ money has been blown on an Edstone scam at Portsmouth docks. The idea was to offer ships an electricity supply when they’re moored at the dockside to let them stop burning marine fuel. But the gadgets have no connection to the National Grid and no one knows when, or if, this will happen.
    Worse, it would be four times more expensive for ships to use the electricity on offer than consuming marine fuel thanks to Milipede driving up the cost of dockside power.

Another one down the drain

The Bank of England has shed its image as a rock of formality and respectability with its new, woke guidance for staff. They can turn up for work in a suit with high heels and make-up, should they so desire. And blokes in a frock can have a beard.
    Will anyone be able to take the Governor seriously now? Or when he gets up to make a world-shattering statement, will everyone be wondering what brand of eye-shadow he’s wearing?

Edstone fail

No surprise that people living in the more rural parts of England and Scotland are not going for electric vehicles. Getting to chargers, the lack of range and the sheer cost of buying EVs are major factors. Also worries about reliability.