It’s not the equivalent of being involved with a terrible trade deal like mercosur

What on Earth does your opinion on Mercosur’s trade deals have to do with whether or not the UK is sharing data with them?

The chart has no year

I gave you the year in my first reply to you: the most recent year of data in the source (a partial source, but it gives us a limit) is 2024.

what the units are

It’s PPP, it is the international dollar. PPP is strictly a relative measure, units are not important.

It absolutely is. At the time of the data being recorded, the UK was not a member of either organisation and did not have an agreement to share data with either organisation.

Excellent news! I haven’t done the maths to check for sure, but that looks like a huge per-capita showing from the Finns in particular

lol. lmao, even

When this data was recorded, the UK was not in the EU and did not have an agreement to share data with Eurostat. This is equivalent to complaining that Mercosur doesn’t show the UK in its data

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If they get South America on board then that’s just about every heavyweight team. I don’t know how the rest of South America felt about the attack on Venezuela, but it seems worth looking into if a European boycott actually does go ahead

The most recent data on the source is 2024 and that agreement is dated late 2024. The UK is not in the 2024 data

For the most recent year that there is UK data for, 2018, we were slightly below France

I get it, he looked damn good in them

No, bacteria (and some other things like fungi) have evolved to eat some kinds of plastic, and we don’t yet know how scalable that is or if it has significant environmental side effects. Regardless, the bigger matter here is that we burn a huge majority of extracted crude oil. If we stop doing that, we can drill far less

A huge majority of crude oil production goes towards fuels and we still have an enormous problem with the amount of plastic we use, we can definitely stand to drill less

Wales implemented a pretty widespread version of this, changing roughly a third of all of their roads from 30 mph to 20 mph (pretty close to 50 and 30 kph respectively). Test areas before the full implementation seemed to go well, and the first year of the reduced limit saw casualties on affected roads drop by a quarter compared to the prior year. That’s only one year of data, and casualties were already trending down anyway, but it does seem promising

It has been very controversial, though. A lot of people do not like it and are fighting to repeal it

Thirteen is just the German contingent, but the other countries are sending similarly small numbers for now. However, this small group is a recon mission, not intended as a fighting force. They’re going there to make a plan for their armies, not to be the army

Oh wow, it really is just 11 lines. The article is significantly longer than the bill

It actually has the lowest crime rate for violence against the person amongst English and Welsh police regions. It has higher-than-average homicide and total crime rates, but it’s not the highest and it’s comparable to other cities

Why would he need to? Reform is well on the way to supplant the Tories anyway, and under FPTP if they do that once they’re basically entrenched

The UK definitely seems like the easier challenge here, given that it’s not a superpower and is currently actually trying to cooperate

Unfortunately Reform have enough candidates no matter how dysfunctional they might be if they actually get elected. I dread to think of the mess they’d make

No, it’s about agricultural standards and food safety. The sentence structure does make it a bit more confusing than it has to be though. It’s:

Starmer has made a veterinary agreement, or a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement, a crucial element…

“Sanitary and phytosanitary” seems to be pre-established language for this stuff in international law, as there is an Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures WTO treaty

I know. I’m not saying that they’re accusing the Marinera of breaking international law, I’m saying that current international law basically says unflagged vessels are fair game