BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Ian H]

In my ignorance, as the Royal Mail seems to slide into irrelevancy (along with the idea of an affordable universal letter delivery mandate) amongst all the other delivery companies, I completely fail to understand how a tripling of its CEO's salary can be justified.

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It's dead simple: you know it's on a death-spiral, so rake in the money while you can.

 

[Beebo]

It does seem like a total scandal. They have a loyal workforce who quite rightly want to protect hard won rights, and not go down the gig economy route.

Delivering letters is a complete inconvenience to them. They are trying to price people out of bothering to post stuff.

They are a parcel logistics delivery company now so will be targeting the package delivery sector which I presume is only going to grow.

 

[Beebo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz75px7zl0wo

I don’t know if any of you have been following the Rossi case. A very strange individual who tried all sorts of nonsense to get out of a rape conviction. His whole story was a case of mistaken identity and allegations of being tattooed whilst in a coma in hospital.
But he’s now succumbed to his Covid complications in the USA, which is what got him arrested in the first place when no one could establish who he really was.

 

[Beebo]

In my ignorance, as the Royal Mail seems to slide into irrelevancy (along with the idea of an affordable universal letter delivery mandate) amongst all the other delivery companies, I completely fail to understand how a tripling of its CEO's salary can be justified.

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And we got this through the door this morning.

More dependable, just less often.

 

[Pinno718]

A bit long winded and tech wordy but interesting view that Data centres will quickly become obsolete and dated behemoths due a change in 'classical' chip technology in the very near future as the total electrical consumption of global data centres will exceed Japan's energy demand...

 

[briantrumpet]

Raise The Flags and Reform not taking the injunction against putting flags on Oxfordshire streetlamps terribly well, not least as it sets the template for other local authorities to get similar injunctions. The useful parts are banning named people from inciting or encouraging others to do similar things, and also the injunction is against 'unnamed people', so making the injunction very wide-ranging in effect.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...njunction-raise-the-colours-nationalist-flags

The court, one of the most important in England and Wales, had decided that hanging the English flag from lamp-posts without the council’s permission should not be allowed. Activists who have been hanging the flag of St George along roadsides in what has been a growing display of nationalist sentiment, were dismayed, accusing politicians such Bearder of “not liking the flag of their country”.

Bearder, a public servant and proud Englishman, was delighted. “We’ve secured the first ever injunction [of its kind] in the country and this will serve as a blueprint for other councils wishing to stop this irresponsible behaviour,” he said.

 

[briantrumpet]

Sometimes a story like this makes me think that not all is lost. Even in Bridgwater.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddplvrglrpo