Plus: Looking for cocaine in London's sewage, Lime bikes are getting regulated, the Green candidate standing for his tenth party, Reform UK's Tooting diatribes.
On bikes.. yes Deidre Costigan MP (Ealing and Southall) specifically noted that the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill will be used to stop the bike dead zones which we know well and love. While it will probably allow three or so bike brands to run under one platform, there will ultimately be a primus inter pares, because of course there will be
I'm not sure at what point Laila Cunningham states that she is Muslim, but accepts racism targeted at Islam from her own party candidates, or becomes fully apostate.
Tests on the River Po in Italy have proved an effective way of gauging levels of substance abuse - thanks to the presence of human byproducts from cocaine in the water.
Researchers found the equivalent of 4kg a day of Colombia's most famous export being washed into the Adriatic, showing that Italians were consuming far more cocaine than figures had indicated.
Surveys, crime statistics and other estimates suggested that 15,000 young adults in the region of the Po - which flows from the Alps to the Adriatic, its valley home to about five million people - admitted to using cocaine, about once a month.
But the river data tell another story - that at least 40,000 people now snort, smoke or inject 100mg of the substance every day. Ettore Zuccato, of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, in Milan, and colleagues, today state, in the journal Environmental Health, that as cocaine users excrete benzoylecgonine in their urine, and as the byproduct has no other source, the sewage water of the cities and the Po itself does give an accurate picture.
"We expected our field data on cocaine consumption to give estimates within the range of official estimates, or perhaps lower, but certainly not higher," they write.
The results suggested that 27 in 1,000 people in the region, aged 15 to 34, took the drug daily. "The large amount of cocaine [at least 1,500kg, or almost one and a half tonnes] our findings suggest are consumed per year in the River Po basin would amount to about $150m [£85m] in street value."
Regarding Oxford Street and its impending pedestrianisation (that will cause chaos in surrounding streets) why doesn’t Sadiq K emulate the Japanese solution. Just close it against traffic at the weekend. Makes far more sense.
In the year 2026 and rising politicians still do not know how to use social media. Reform can capitalise on being racist and generally by vice signalling, but I really cannot understand how the Greens are letting this happen.
Appalling such a vile performance allowed to take place. Prurient and just plain wrong. They should be ashamed of themselves- no it’s not helping science.
Could it not be said to encourage future generations of zoologists/conservationists/vetenarians etc - seems a bit pearl clutching to suggest it is prurient. It wasn't done without the need to apply/attend/be aware of what you were going to see.
Animals need us to understand them biologically speaking and if that work can occasionally be made public to allow those interested/possibly inspired to pursue that same ability to understand and help, it seems fair enough.
Nothing new was learnt- nothing. Rather like the Austrian with a hat curing up humans being for pleasure and profit, s.. all to do with science- not pearl clutching, more pointing out how desensitisation encouraged by our harsh social media age is legitimising the nasty, cheap and prurient. If you want to be a vet great- attending a modern day freak event is not how you go about it- sit some A- levels, work hard and develop some ethics, all do help. Barnum and Bailey is not the same as the Royal Soc of Veterinary Surgeons.
On bikes.. yes Deidre Costigan MP (Ealing and Southall) specifically noted that the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill will be used to stop the bike dead zones which we know well and love. While it will probably allow three or so bike brands to run under one platform, there will ultimately be a primus inter pares, because of course there will be
I'm not sure at what point Laila Cunningham states that she is Muslim, but accepts racism targeted at Islam from her own party candidates, or becomes fully apostate.
An eclectic mix Jim, thank you. how does the British drug use compare to Italy 2005?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/aug/05/highereducation.research?CMP=share_btn_url
Tim Radford Guardian
Tests on the River Po in Italy have proved an effective way of gauging levels of substance abuse - thanks to the presence of human byproducts from cocaine in the water.
Researchers found the equivalent of 4kg a day of Colombia's most famous export being washed into the Adriatic, showing that Italians were consuming far more cocaine than figures had indicated.
Surveys, crime statistics and other estimates suggested that 15,000 young adults in the region of the Po - which flows from the Alps to the Adriatic, its valley home to about five million people - admitted to using cocaine, about once a month.
But the river data tell another story - that at least 40,000 people now snort, smoke or inject 100mg of the substance every day. Ettore Zuccato, of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, in Milan, and colleagues, today state, in the journal Environmental Health, that as cocaine users excrete benzoylecgonine in their urine, and as the byproduct has no other source, the sewage water of the cities and the Po itself does give an accurate picture.
"We expected our field data on cocaine consumption to give estimates within the range of official estimates, or perhaps lower, but certainly not higher," they write.
The results suggested that 27 in 1,000 people in the region, aged 15 to 34, took the drug daily. "The large amount of cocaine [at least 1,500kg, or almost one and a half tonnes] our findings suggest are consumed per year in the River Po basin would amount to about $150m [£85m] in street value."
Regarding Oxford Street and its impending pedestrianisation (that will cause chaos in surrounding streets) why doesn’t Sadiq K emulate the Japanese solution. Just close it against traffic at the weekend. Makes far more sense.
Weekdays have pretty high footfall too, even without pedestrianisation!
In the year 2026 and rising politicians still do not know how to use social media. Reform can capitalise on being racist and generally by vice signalling, but I really cannot understand how the Greens are letting this happen.
Superb reporting and what a mix.
Appalling such a vile performance allowed to take place. Prurient and just plain wrong. They should be ashamed of themselves- no it’s not helping science.
Could it not be said to encourage future generations of zoologists/conservationists/vetenarians etc - seems a bit pearl clutching to suggest it is prurient. It wasn't done without the need to apply/attend/be aware of what you were going to see.
Animals need us to understand them biologically speaking and if that work can occasionally be made public to allow those interested/possibly inspired to pursue that same ability to understand and help, it seems fair enough.
Indeed- and not with an audience. How it’s meant to be. Fine end for the King of the Jungle. Sad.
Nothing new was learnt- nothing. Rather like the Austrian with a hat curing up humans being for pleasure and profit, s.. all to do with science- not pearl clutching, more pointing out how desensitisation encouraged by our harsh social media age is legitimising the nasty, cheap and prurient. If you want to be a vet great- attending a modern day freak event is not how you go about it- sit some A- levels, work hard and develop some ethics, all do help. Barnum and Bailey is not the same as the Royal Soc of Veterinary Surgeons.
Pretty sure eventually a vet will dissect something.
ooh, you're so bold. so heterodox.
Sockpuppet account to write incendiary posts? No thanks