I grew up in Wales, I remember that day, how we all sat glued to the TV, rescuers passing the bodies along, the waiting families, the unrelenting rain - hard to imagine a more desolate scene. And it needn't have happened. The Nation Coal Board had been warned repeatedly of the danger.

Utterly moronic decision-making by BOTH duopoly parties - sacrificing the hugely important education sector when it should be thriving, all because they’re incapable of tough decisions on real estate investment rorts.
Cutting students is not the solution to housing.

amp.abc.net.au/article/1051...

Thanks for sending me down the Pacific Banana rabbit hole.

@beneltham.bsky.social ?

ICYMI

^this is not far off the mark. In anxious times, society tends to polarise.