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Many housing associations provide vital social housing, and many look after their tenants with compassion and care. At the same time, some are responsible for trapping often very vulnerable tenants in the most horrible squalor and danger. The system needs rebalancing and opening up to scrutiny. The worst should not be given a pass by riding on the government’s goodwill towards the best.
In London, if you see a streetlight out or other fault on TfL's network, you can report it through the FixMyStreet.com website from the excellent MySociety (also known for WhatDoTheyKnow.com).
E.g. https://www.fixmystreet.com/report/9023901
Unfortunately, not all boroughs (including, sadly, Tower Hamlets) take reports through FixMyStreet.com, but the site will let you know who is responsible for an area and give you links to their reporting contacts or forms.
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As @sianberry says, we absolutely need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy. Outsourcing our IT to other countries is a massive risk. You're not too big or too small for a capricious administration to pull the rug from under your foreign-owned cloud services and paralyse your organisation. Look what happened to the International Criminal Court.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25870885.opinion-rely-us-tech-giants-uk/
RE: https://chaos.social/@mattgrayyes/116120182750135095
While creating a car/bike frankencharger is an absolutely mad thing to do, @mattgrayyes’s ultimate point, asking why we are not rolling out e-bike charging infrastructure along with EV charging infrastructure, is a good one. Anything that makes any type of cycling an easier choice benefits everyone!
@breizh @katemorley You only need to import the materials once. Build a solar panel or a wind turbine, it pumps out units of power for free for decades. If it eventually breaks, much of the material can be recovered and recycled.
For fossil fuels, you burn or react your fuel once and it is gone forever. You need to import another unit of fuel to make the next unit of power.
@TechConnectify put it better than me in their video https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM
