By davidjay
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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:46 pm Would be an huge step. But are they still blocking the dustcarts?
To be honest, apart from the recycling piled on a few inner-city streets you'd hardly know it was happening. Our bins get emptied every week; not always on the right day but they go eventually.
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By Abernathy
#93666
Well, there have been no recycling collections at all since the strike got started in January. We've been taking batches of recycling and green garden waste to the tip in the car ourselves every couple of weeks. Some of the inner city areas seem to be suffering more than the suburbs.
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By Tubby Isaacs
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He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air
Simon Jenkins
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... 1754042991

In which a plan to build a ballroom in the White House and a hatred of wind turbines, is produced as evidence for this laughable conclusion.
. The president with whom he is becoming comparable is Teddy Roosevelt after 1900. He too tested the limits of presidential power. He too was frantic to lead the daily news agenda. But he too seemed to care about America’s natural environment, its forests and deserts, and a role for Washington in their custodianship.
By Bones McCoy
#93673
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 12:45 pm
He may talk rubbish but Trump has an eye for beauty, and that is a breath of fresh air
Simon Jenkins
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... 1754042991

In which a plan to build a ballroom in the White House and a hatred of wind turbines, is produced as evidence for this laughable conclusion.
. The president with whom he is becoming comparable is Teddy Roosevelt after 1900. He too tested the limits of presidential power. He too was frantic to lead the daily news agenda. But he too seemed to care about America’s natural environment, its forests and deserts, and a role for Washington in their custodianship.
What is the point of Simon Jenkins?
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By Boiler
#93678
"An eye for beauty"?

Really?

The bloke who plasters everything in tacky gold?
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