Today's discussion about the news
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I do think their main short term opportunity was a change of mood music. On that front I'm slightly baffled by their approach.
Seems to me that the whole approach pre-election was too safe, by saying they wouldn't move on the hard Brexit, or the self-imposed fiscal rules. Or on any of the three main personal taxes.
Labour would still have won by attacking the unaffordable NI cut a few months earlier. For one thing, within the same parliament Boris had intended to increase it from 10 to 12% to pay for all the hard work the NHS did undoing the damage from his press conferences. I also think there was an opportunity to attack austerity from the perspective of a lack of infrastructure investment - particularly outside of London - which in turn was an opportunity to present a revised set of fiscal rules that were a bit more nuanced than Osborne's "household budget" approach to national finances.
What has actually happened is they've boxed themselves in with a load of Tory policies, which only leave limited solutions - and these are basically the same as what we've just voted out.
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Ears burning Brian? 😉
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
If you can't see it's nuts, and has little to do with reporting news, I'm not surprised that your views are as they are. On the plus side, I do find the Telegraph very amusing at times. And baffling the rest of the time.
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It was more about Barnier likely being a blocker to Labour's plans to cosy up to the EU and how this might annoy some people.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Wait, you're a fan now?🤔
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Neither a fan nor a hater. He's just doing his job.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Can't remember where I put the stuff about the woman who was killed by a lump of rock falling on her car, but I went that way today (Gorges de St May), and there are three or four sections down to single track with traffic lights. Jeez, I was looking at the geology, and that road would be closed completely in an instant here. And then I went up another (the Gorges de Trente Pas) where sooner or later there's going to be a massive rockfall, with virtually none of it with any sort of netting or safety nets. Probably best not to look up, and cycle as fast as you can.
The underlying problem is that roads like this, following rivers that have eroded bloomin' great cliffs, are essential, and as they've widened what were once just narrow roads, have become more inherently risky, and (to a large extent), no sensible amount of engineering is going to stop great chunks falling off from time to time. Nature will do what it will, sooner or later.
Anyway, my cycling helmet obviously made me invincible.
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"You lucky lucky..." 😉
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On that particular instance, it isn't clear why they don't just lop off a bit more hill to remove the overhang entirely.
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Generally speaking that given the the lack of freeze/ thaw in those areas you are less likely to have rock falls although they will still happen from time to time. Unlike in the UK where Limestone cliffs fall apart all the time.
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I think there's a large element of 'do not disturb' if it's been hanging there for a few decades with no-one having been killed by bits falling off. It's a mixture of proactive and reactive safety works.
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Oh yes, I forgot the rather fetching overhang I photographed on the second gorge.
That would/will make quite a mess.
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More great reporting from the Telegraph.
The BBC breached its own editorial guidelines more than 1,500 times during the height of the Israel-Hamas war, a damning report has found. The report revealed a “deeply worrying pattern of bias” against Israel, according to its authors who analysed four months of the BBC’s output across television, radio, online news, podcasts and social media. The research, led by British lawyer Trevor Asserson, also found that Israel was associated with genocide more than 14 times more than Hamas in the corporation’s coverage of the conflict. On Saturday, Danny Cohen, a former BBC executive, warned that there was now an “institutional crisis” at the national broadcaster and called for an independent inquiry into its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
I wonder why they omitted to give any background on Asserson.
Of course, it might be that he's completely unbiased, but given the weight the Telegraph is giving to his report, with no dissenting voices, you'd have thought they might, just possibly, have mentioned his other campaigning activity in this area.
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Is there still a yawning emoticon available?
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Imagine if the police were Boomers as well...
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Meh I think if you went back in time to the mid 90s and said gangs will steal millions of pounds worth of items that literally are able to be tracked to a few square meters...but police will do nothing with that tracking info...you'd raise a few eyebrows.
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He appears to be grumbling that police prioritise instigating riots over phone theft. I think that's probably the right way around.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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There's no point having a mobile phone in most of Wales, because it's a signal black spot.
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It won't be long before Starlink "direct-to-cell" means you could make a call from mount Snowdon.
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You can do that right now pretty much.
Starlink is surprisingly bad anywhere there are trees or buildings though.
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Yeah, fair point, GPS is the same.
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It must be great for people on boats.
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I don’t think basing a prosecution on the location of Find My is particularly viable, especially in a densely populated urban area. Its accuracy can be a few metres in perfect conditions but it gets affected by tall buildings etc. and how do you determine which particular flat in a block is the correct one for example? Any self respecting lawyer would be able to cast reasonable doubt on that basis.
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Go ahead, you seem to think it’s so easy to avoid the incompetent police. You could make a fortune and no need to commute anymore.
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years ago my commute bike was stolen, midday, in an area with cctv and rentacops - who refused to give access to the cctv
it was on gumtree later in the day, sellers with multiple claimed names but the same mobile number, had ads for six other bikes at the same time
police weren't interested
clearly they could have called up to 'buy' any of the bikes on offer and arrested whoever they met for the purchase
but even though the multiple names and number on sale made it highly probable it was someone making a business out of bike theft, that was not a police matter
they suggested i go myself and seize back my bike, then call them if i encountered resistance, seemed like a good way to get stabbed, or maybe arrested myself for assault, so i declined
gumtree would not take down the ads either, not even for my own bike, their business model appears to be abetting criminals
so rc, seems like there's business to be done, complete with handy resale service!
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I had similar, kicked off enough that I got the name of someone higher up the chain. They were most upset I got their name and number. Police did react at that point. Had my bike taken to Kingston nick so I could prove it was mine. Walked in and fitted my lights and computer to the brackets fitted and asked if they wanted to see the invoice with frame number. Thieving scum got let off as he said he'd bought it off a bloke at a market. The fact he was selling 5 bikes using the same mobile number but different names didn't mean anything 🙄
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