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>and likewise England play international rugby, including against Wales and Scotland.

Except when they play as part of the British & Irish Lions!

Style Assist is mainly for articles written by journalists that are employed by third-party news organisations (who own the UK's local news outlets) but are subsidised by the BBC - these people are "local democracy reporters".

LDRS articles are made free to everyone in the scheme (including the BBC), but because the content is written primarily for their home news org the articles that end up being published by the BBC need to be modified to comply with the BBC's editorial guidelines and for style reasons.

Hence, Style Assist.

>There's even some talk of a potential Loony-Bin alliance.

Nah, never going to happen. There's history between Binface and the Loonies... and they're a lot more right-wing than people often think they are

>Ultimately, whether he would be allowed to write "Count Binface" as his name on the registration documents would depend on what the Electoral Commission decides. I had a look last week, but couldn't find their rules.

One can stand for election using any name that one is "commonly known by".

>If he goes into the parliament building without his costume, it would be a bit awkward if, say, they were required to address him by his Count Binface alias.

Members of Parliament aren't allowed to address each other by name in the Commons chamber.

All debate must be addressed to the Speaker (or Deputy Speaker if one of them are chairing the debate).

References to other members are made in the form of "the X member for Y constituency", where X is:

- "honourable" (the default);

- "right honourable" if they are sworn of the Privy Council (i.e. they've been a minister in the past);

- "learned and honourable member" (a qualified lawyer); or

- "gallant and honourable member" (somebody who has served in the armed forces).

It wouldn't be the first time a novelty candidate has won an election.

H'Angus the Monkey[0] won the Hartlepool mayoral election in 2002 and the man in the costume served three terms before the mayoralty was abolished in 2013.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%27Angus

>Only applies to EU citizens' personal data

That's not true.

The GDPR applies to the personal data of anyone physically in the EU, to the extent that the data are processed[0] while they are in the EU.

It also applies to the personal data of anybody anywhere in the world if the data controllers are based in the EU.

The reason why it's different to US sanctions/export controls is that the GDPR doesn't say you can't work with certain people in certain circumstances because of who they are in order to punish those people for whatever reason. It's fundamentally to protect the data subjects.

[0] which includes collection of said data

Mid-thirties Brit here. I've never owned a credit card, neither has my partner.

All of our card transactions are with a debit card.

I've never needed instant-access debt so it's not really an attractive proposition. Perhaps the added consumer protection rules could be worth it, but it's not been an issue to date.

>judgment vs. judgement

In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'.

>We'll see. It's not like police unions are making life better for citizens.

The police aren't allowed to join a union

The author is a former civil servant. I think it's safe to assume he knows that writing to his MP is an option...

For people in the UK, Prospect has a Tech Workers branch: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/

Prospect is my union (although I'm a member of a BECTU branch rather than the Tech Workers branch as I work in the broadcasting industry) and it's well worth the dues I pay.

BTW this is the financial services company,[0] not the taxi company.[1]

I had never even heard of the former until now so I was quite confused until I realised it was an American fintech firm. Now it makes much more sense!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_Financial

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(company)

The regulation does cover everything that uses batteries.

>You're all angry at the wrong people.

No. We're not. Perhaps we should be angry at both, but we definitely should be angry at you.

Spam is bad. If your business can't survive without sending spam, your business shouldn't survive.

Yes, but there are a lot of gullible investors out there so calling themselves that will jack up the value of their shares.

>(Does base 4 have a name?)

Quaternary

(2024)

Submission URL should probably be changed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... as the current link is to a draft of this article

>We don't have landmass to facilitate the output waste in the UK

Yes, we do. It really doesn't make that much space to store the waste. The biggest problem is people being irrationally scared of it.

>The first point already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

SEs are public companies, and must have at least €120k in capital during formation.

The proposed EU Inc. will be for private companies with no capital requirements.

The last time pan-European private companies (SPEs) were seriously proposed (2008) opposition from the German government blocked the proposals, the idea limped along until finally being ditched in 2014 after disputes in the European Parliament about worker representation on boards.

SPEs were supposed to follow on from SEs (public companies, introduced in 2004) and SCEs (cooperative societies, introduced in 2006).

>The ultimate aim is to create a new truly European company structure. We call it EU Inc., with a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over our Union.

I hope this is an indication that the Commission proposal will be for a Regulation and not a Directive.

I still don't understand why it's been such a contentious decision to pick between the two.

Worse, the rule became to reverse the victim and offender,[0] and belittle those calling out the behaviour as "woke" or "suppressing free speech".

>Imagine you have an AI button. When you click it, the locally running LLM gets a copy of the web site in the context window, and you get to ask it a prompt, e.g. "summarize this".

but.. why? I can read the website myself. That's why I'm on the website.

>During that period, it was accessed 43 times by 32 unique IP addresses

I find this an implausibly low number. It was all over Bluesky, X etc., not to mention journo Signal and WhatsApp groups.

Inflation in the EU is at 2.5% (2.1% in the Eurozone), that's hardly "rampant".

They're part-way through setting up a Belgian non-profit entity (AISBL) which will be the main organisation.

From https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-...

>A vital aspect of our restructuring initiative is transitioning Mastodon to a new European not-for-profit entity. Our intent is to form a Belgian AISBL as the future home of the Mastodon organisation. > >As an update on our current status, Mastodon is continuing to run day-to-day operations through the Mastodon gGmbH entity (the Mastodon gGmbH entity automatically became a for-profit as a result of its charitable status being stripped away in Germany). The US-based 501(c)(3) continues to function as a strategic overlay and fundraising hub, and as a short-term solution until the AISBL is ready, the 501(c)(3) will own the trademark and other assets. We intend to transfer those assets as soon as the AISBL is ready. To enable tax-deductible donations for German donors, we partnered with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor.

The UK was never in the Schengen Area, though.

The right to be forgotten is not an absolute right.