I get the feeling you are not a fan?

He would have to give up eating sandwiches in public if he agrees.

To spin things in a positive light, at least there are more councillors representing the “progressive” parties than not.

(I concede that the definition for progressive may be subject to opinion)

I think there were two factors that reduced the Green vote. Firstly the fact that the electorate and media have a two party system ingrained in them, pushing the logic that to stop x party you have to vote y. And secondly Polanski’s comments on the recent stabbing in London have definitely put a lot of people off the Greens. Very bad timing and optics on his part.

It’ll be interesting to see if Plaid can change the voting system again. They’ve promised STV in their manifesto, but I do fear this would also be confusing for the non-engaged electorate. At least it should increase support for the smaller parties on the left.

TFL did a study related to this which was cited when Wales set the default speed to 20.

They found that there was minimal difference in emissions between the two speeds. Any benefit of lower drag etc is countered by the fact that the engine is not geared well for 20 so generally it will be the same or only slightly better doing 20. (I am making the assumption here that lower emissions will equal less fuel usage.)

However, the greatest benefit is that there are less cars on the road because it encourages active travel and discourages driving. So comparing driving to not at all is a huge fuel difference.

I can’t find the exact study I looked at before, but I think this might be similar: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/the-impact-20mph-limits-and-zones-in-london.pdf

Pretty much all of the progressive parties in my constituency have been selling themselves as the “tactical choice”, despite there being a new proportional voting system in Wales that doesn’t really allow that.

The Greens seem to be the worst for it, to the point of citing a poll back in January that said they were neck and neck with Reform for the last seat. You would expect better from them really, its kinda putting me off.

They must be targeting specific areas. So far I have got about 6-8 things from Green (including one glossy magazine type thing), and they are the only party I have seen door knocking. Reform I have only got the one “letter” - in an envelope I assume because they are the most disliked party and they are getting this happening often.

Just to clarify, would you mean to have the email/validate stage as part of the flow to access the app, or let them continue with just the email with a limited functionality?

Compared to login or password reset, you rarely see the email validate before register flow, especially for mobile apps etc. That makes it pretty hard to make the case that this needs to be actioned from a security perspective when even the big companies are not following it either.

I was having a chat about this with a UX guy. His argument for using a similar flow was that the username/email will have to be validated at the point of registration anyway so you might as well make it easier for the user when the email is wrong. I couldn’t really refute this logic.

If you throttle both login and registration, then surely the risk is minimised while keeping the user happy?

Tap and go has been super nice in South Wales. It makes things so much easier and cheaper too. My only fear with this announcement is that it doesn’t sound like it covers too large of an area so it could be that you still have to get tickets if you are traveling between local cities. This ideally needs to be on a national level, but I doubt that would happen considering how fragmented our public transport system is.

Just doing some sick doughnuts, nothing nefarious going on here.

What difference are they expecting compared to the last time they investigated the exact same chant? Maybe because it is a different police force, they are wanting another pop at it? Surely that just a waste of resources.

In such a hurry as to get irate at someone going slightly slower, but has enough time to stop, get out of his van and assault someone.

Looks nice, especially the anchovy pizza! The salad does have a very American vibe to it - it is the lack of different veggies maybe.

White feels too similar to England, and you can’t be having that as a Welsh fan.

I did quite like the old black and yellow (from the flag of Dewi Sant). I do wonder how that would look inverted with a black trim.

I’ve thought that a few English Teacher songs felt a little Jockstrapy. ‘Not Everyone Gets to go to Space’ specifically.

I can’t comment on the turbo, but I have had little issue with queuing around 6-10 GMT or weekends in EUW. Queue time averages around 1-3mins. I am normally playing with a 3-5 stack though if that effects anything.

Managed to somehow get it in one, but can’t share my score as it reveals the answer. Bit of a design flaw there.

As someone who watched a lot of horrible histories, I am a sucker for their jokes and style. Very exciting!