an extremely rare Saturday sitting of both houses of Parliament

I've rarely read news articles in English for about two months. I've been in a sort of slump.
I haven't been in a mood of reading English language and listening to Podcast. I've listened to BBC radio instead.

To tell the truth, I couldn't resist reading loads of Japanese gossips in Yahoo! News for a while, such as public uproar over a rice shortage, the collapse of Nissan and Honda, the scandal of the governor of Hyogo prefecture.
I can say that reading Japanese online news articles is a waste of time. It's totally meaningless and even harmful to my health.
It's like smoking cigarettes. There is not even one good thing. It's complete rubbish.
I have to promise giving up the bad habit this time for sure.

Reading UK gossips in English is useful for learning English language. The content is vulgar as Japanese, but it's written in English.
US gossips are rather fantasy nowadays. It's like pulp fiction or pro wrestling shows, but I admit that I enjoyed the screenshot of the group chat in Signal.

This is a comedy casting Richard Tice, Jeremy Corbyn, and others.

UK takes control of British Steel under emergency powers
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg17g39x41o

<essential words>
concede [quote]ministers concede there are currently no companies willing to make an offer.
[Collins]If you concede something, you admit, often unwillingly, that it is true or correct.

effectively [quote]In this case the market value is effectively zero.
[Collins]You use effectively with a statement or opinion to indicate that it is not accurate in every detail, but that you feel it is a reasonable description or summary of a particular situation.

<words>
furnace - blast furnace
call back [quote]MPs and peers were called back from their Easter holidays
automatic number plate recognition - ANPR
pig's breakfast [quote]the government should have acted sooner and made a total pig's breakfast of this whole arrangement
[Wiktionary]Synonym of dog's breakfast (“mess”)
a dog's breakfast[Cambridge]something or someone that looks extremely untidy, or something that is very badly done
loss-making/lossmaking - a loss-making plant
from scratch
irrevocably < irrevocable
unilaterally < unilateral
show your cojones - Richard Tice
wind turbine

Scunthorpe
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds
Royal Assent
Jingye
Humberside