Given the state of the ambulance service, Monday and Tuesday's furnace temperatures is going to cause a massive political issue. There is bound to be a huge spike in calls for heart attacks, chest pains and the like.
The leader's debates will be blown out of the coverage.
My guess is this is going to be a massive and explosive issue and not in a good way for tory polling.
I am not sure even the tories can be blamed for the weather
Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern NEW: 999 callers for suspected heart attacks or stroke in West Midlands are now being told it could be several hours before an ambulance reaches them.
@OFFICIALWMAS lost 2,300 hours of ambulance time outside hospitals on Monday with 700 emergency calls waiting at one point
Regarding price elasticity of petrol are there any recent figures for usage? Anecdotally, I've noticed no fall during peak times. But the dual carriageway has seemed noticeably quieter off peak. Or maybe I didn't pay attention before?
My usage for one remains remarkably constant whatever the price.
Exactly. The amount of discretionary petrol usage is tiny. The PED of 1.1 - the more notable change in behaviour is as likely to be people driving more slowly on the motorways, as opposed to not making journeys because of the petrol price.
The mileage driven is remarkably price insensitive (although I’m sure there’s a price where that really starts to kick in!) but cutting your speed on the motorway makes a big difference to the amount of fuel used / mile, so fuel consumption is clearly much more price sensitive.
IIRC the difference between 65mph and 80mph is > 20% increase in fuel consumption. Plus you save on tyre wear by driving slower...
Which is why the US government set the Federal speed limit to just 55 miles per hour back in 1973.
Of course, cars are both rather more aerodynamic and heavier than then, so the impact of speed on efficiency will be slightly reduced.
Ooh, that's an interesting question. The increased weight will increase the rolling resistance of the tyres, so not sure how that balances out with changes in speed. And then a large factor will be the optimisation of the gearing and the engine.
I've no idea how those have changed, so I wouldn't be certain that the improved aerodynamics would be the dominant factor.
Drag coefficients have dropped a long way since 1973, while average weights have increased.
Still, at 60 miles per hour, the vast majority of your energy (unless you are driving up hill) will be used to overcome wind resistance.
Given the state of the ambulance service, Monday and Tuesday's furnace temperatures is going to cause a massive political issue. There is bound to be a huge spike in calls for heart attacks, chest pains and the like.
The leader's debates will be blown out of the coverage.
My guess is this is going to be a massive and explosive issue and not in a good way for tory polling.
I am not sure even the tories can be blamed for the weather
But plans on climate change and NHS funding are relevant topics for leadership hopefuls.
Fishing - Oh, absolutely Biden is a more competent president than Trump. Here's a telling example: Biden has managed, unlike Trump, to get a big infrastruture bill passed. This is one of the easiest things to do in the US Congress, though it is generally necessary to accept at least a few pork barrel projects in order to get the necessary votes for the whole package.
But Mr. "Art of the Deal" couldn't get that deal done.
Given the state of the ambulance service, Monday and Tuesday's furnace temperatures is going to cause a massive political issue. There is bound to be a huge spike in calls for heart attacks, chest pains and the like.
The leader's debates will be blown out of the coverage.
My guess is this is going to be a massive and explosive issue and not in a good way for tory polling.
I am not sure even the tories can be blamed for the weather
Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern NEW: 999 callers for suspected heart attacks or stroke in West Midlands are now being told it could be several hours before an ambulance reaches them.
@OFFICIALWMAS lost 2,300 hours of ambulance time outside hospitals on Monday with 700 emergency calls waiting at one point
It's at the point where shoving someone in the car and driving to hospital (for those for whom that's a possibility) may be the better option. Trouble is, at time of calling, that's probably very hard to tell. And impossible in many cases/for people without access to a car etc.
That makes it difficult to nominate a competent, moderate centrist, who might actually have practical solutions to the nation's problems, for example, fentanyl.
However bad things get, fentanyl isn't the solution.
But what does 'single' mean in this context? Having a partner? Living with that partner?
I would have classed myself as 'single' until I reached 27, when a girlfriend moved in with me. I had girlfriends, but we did not share our lives too much. We would meet up, have meals, go to the cinema, sleep over occasionally, have fun, etc, but we were independent of each other. This does not mean I did not cheat on them; just that we had our own independent lives and homes.
So (one of) the question(s) is, how would your girlfriends prior to that point at age 27 have classified themselves?
There can be differences in now people interpret the question, but I would have thought the more likely explanation is women 18-29 in relationships with men 30+.
The dual hurdles make it nearly impossible for Biden to follow through on selling the fighters to the NATO ally as lawmakers express exasperation over Ankara’s purchase of advanced Russian equipment, violating the territory of its neighbours and its drift toward autocracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
This is not going to make Erdogan happy, after he was persuaded to back down on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland.
Some of that 'advanced Russian equipment' are S-400 SAM systems. The same system that (allegedly) the Russians are pi**ed off about because it cannot shoot down HIMARS shells.
Erdogan might have bought a pup...
The S-400 is failing badly against the HIMARS. Which is hillarious, because each S400 defence rocket is an order of magnitide more expensive than the rockets the enemy is facing. They’ll be out of them soon enough, chasing rainbows.
Sadly, the Russians appear to be using Surface-to-Air missiles in a Surface-to-Ground role. They are designed for this, but are apparently highly inaccurate.
At this stage it seems the Russians are not even trying to pretend they are going after military targets. They just want to destroy Ukraine.
It's hard for the media to cover the military conflict, but easier for the media to cover damage to Ukrainian civilian infrastructure behind the front lines. They want to create the sense that Ukraine is losing so that the US public will decide they don't want to waste sending more support.
And why would the media want to do that? You are right about it being easier to film damage in Ukraine, though.
I haven't seen any references to using SAMs (Surface-to-Air missiles) against ground targets. Linkey?
I have seen quite a few reports of using naval Surface to Surface missiles against Ukrainian ground targets, though. The Russians have quite a lot of big anti-ship missiles, and they are fairly inaccurate against ground targets.
Given the state of the ambulance service, Monday and Tuesday's furnace temperatures is going to cause a massive political issue. There is bound to be a huge spike in calls for heart attacks, chest pains and the like.
The leader's debates will be blown out of the coverage.
My guess is this is going to be a massive and explosive issue and not in a good way for tory polling.
The government should be excavating huge Death Pits in the Royal Parks, starting yesterday. Where are they going to pile the twisted, agonised, black-tongued corpses of the mighty regiments of the dead? Your nan's back garden?
Or it could mean that more young women are dating older men, than young men are dating older women.
Or that there are more lesbian couples than male gay ones (almost certainly true)
Or that men answering a survey are more likely to imagine they are footloose and “single” than women, in the same circumstances. Historically at least there was more stigma attached to spinsterhood.
There are lots of potential factors
Interested in that first point - I'd have assumed similar numbers of each, so I'm intrigued by the idea that's not true. Anything to back that up or just an assumption?
Not enough homosexual couples to massively swing the overall numbers anyway, I'd have thought. Even is you say 10% (higher than official ONS stats still, I think) then even a big disparity there would only give youa few percentage points difference at the overall level.
Point two more relevant, I think. And also a likely reality that women often still date someone a bit older?
That makes it difficult to nominate a competent, moderate centrist, who might actually have practical solutions to the nation's problems, for example, fentanyl.
However bad things get, fentanyl isn't the solution.
But if fentanyl is the problem the solution is more fentanyl.
You can actually feel the heat building now, in London
This needs a sound track. Maybe the Specials and Ghost town?
I'm genuinely unsure that most of us will survive this HEAT-ATTACK; I expect millions of dead by Wednesday
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
If you wanted to make a rather morbid bet, I'd be willing to bet fewer people die next week than in the same week in six months time, ie the same corresponding week of January 2023.
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
Given the state of the ambulance service, Monday and Tuesday's furnace temperatures is going to cause a massive political issue. There is bound to be a huge spike in calls for heart attacks, chest pains and the like.
The leader's debates will be blown out of the coverage.
My guess is this is going to be a massive and explosive issue and not in a good way for tory polling.
I am not sure even the tories can be blamed for the weather
The heat is ALREADY so historically bad they have started stabbing each other in the streets of Camden, at 4.17pm. I can see it from my window, FFS. Jesus Christ. BLOOD. BLOOD EVERYWHERE
Tory donor Lord Cruddas has threatened to cut off the party's funding if the leadership contest becomes a parliamentary coronation.
The billionaire City financier, who has given more than £3.5m to the Conservatives and £1.5m to the Vote Leave campaign, told The Telegraph that he is considering closing his wallet to the party for the first time since he began donating in 2010.
Cash for influence. Now about those Russian donors...
The heat is ALREADY so historically bad they have started stabbing each other in the streets of Camden, at 4.17pm. I can see it from my window, FFS. Jesus Christ. BLOOD. BLOOD EVERYWHERE
Normally this starts at about 5.30
Knife crime seems to have very little attention in terms of media / politics these days. Might be a bit like the grooming gangs, is a huge problem which requires some difficult questions asking and controversial solutions.
You can actually feel the heat building now, in London
This needs a sound track. Maybe the Specials and Ghost town?
I'm genuinely unsure that most of us will survive this HEAT-ATTACK; I expect millions of dead by Wednesday
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
If you wanted to make a rather morbid bet, I'd be willing to bet fewer people die next week than in the same week in six months time, ie the same corresponding week of January 2023.
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
Borderline acceptable most years, but bad taste this time round because people will be dying of not being able to afford the heating this winter.
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
Then military training should extend to looking at the weather forecast and the state of the grass.
Also steam trains in the Highlands. Recent one at Glenfinnan. @Sunil_Prasannan, you have been warned.
He's not going on that line - but to Kyle and THurso/Wick. No steamies on those at present, unless there is a one off special.
TBF I had forgotten the Strathspey line branching northeast from Aviemore that is partly steam operated. But I daresay they take the fire risk into account when deciding to light a boiler or press the starter on a diesel.
Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern NEW: 999 callers for suspected heart attacks or stroke in West Midlands are now being told it could be several hours before an ambulance reaches them.
@OFFICIALWMAS lost 2,300 hours of ambulance time outside hospitals on Monday with 700 emergency calls waiting at one point
I know I shouldn't react but it's 22°C in Birmingham in the shade at the moment. Hardly heatstroke weather.
Given the state of the ambulance service, Monday and Tuesday's furnace temperatures is going to cause a massive political issue. There is bound to be a huge spike in calls for heart attacks, chest pains and the like.
The leader's debates will be blown out of the coverage.
My guess is this is going to be a massive and explosive issue and not in a good way for tory polling.
The government should be excavating huge Death Pits in the Royal Parks, starting yesterday. Where are they going to pile the twisted, agonised, black-tongued corpses of the mighty regiments of the dead? Your nan's back garden?
I hardly think so
They will be lobbed at the French by the British Army's new regiment of trebuchets, brought into service to replace the artillery sent to Ukraine.
There's an idea we could pinch, even if only to the extent of a short number for Samaritans, whose adverts seem more common these days. https://www.samaritans.org/
i. Leave the ECHR (YEs yes I know it's not part of the EU) or ii. Join the Euro.
Perhaps do both not sure that'd be allowed by the powers that be though...
Not sure where you get your boner for the Euro from?
Surely, the 2010-2011 eurozone crisis, and flat-footedness of the ECB since, has shown why that'd have been a bad idea for us.
It'd be a huge extra economic constraint for the removal of some marginal trade frictions. True, it would give us more political influence (as we'd be signed up to the whole thing) but that'd be far from decisive and only in one direction.
If the whole thing ever fell over, and it often looks very shaky, then we'd be horribly exposed.
By "extra economic constraint" do you really mean "one fewer thing for the government to fuck up"?
Not really, the BoE couldn't set interest rates or do quantitative easing in future, so that would certainly be a constraint. So would the ability of sterling to act as an automatic stabiliser in responding to economic shocks. Instead, employment in the economy at large would have to take it instead.
And, it's effectively irreversible - a decision to join could only be taken once.
I'd never vote for it, even with a gun to my head.
i. Leave the ECHR (YEs yes I know it's not part of the EU) or ii. Join the Euro.
Perhaps do both not sure that'd be allowed by the powers that be though...
Not sure where you get your boner for the Euro from?
Surely, the 2010-2011 eurozone crisis, and flat-footedness of the ECB since, has shown why that'd have been a bad idea for us.
It'd be a huge extra economic constraint for the removal of some marginal trade frictions. True, it would give us more political influence (as we'd be signed up to the whole thing) but that'd be far from decisive and only in one direction.
If the whole thing ever fell over, and it often looks very shaky, then we'd be horribly exposed.
It's just a way of framing the question of European political integration in the starkest terms. Either all in or all out.
But, in life, I find a good principle is that nothing is black & white.
The heat is ALREADY so historically bad they have started stabbing each other in the streets of Camden, at 4.17pm. I can see it from my window, FFS. Jesus Christ. BLOOD. BLOOD EVERYWHERE
Normally this starts at about 5.30
Someone dropped some Baxter's Pickled Small Beets in Sweet Vinegar on the way home from WAitrose?
Or it could mean that more young women are dating older men, than young men are dating older women.
This is exactly the case.
When I was 23, I was mostly single, because the 23 year old girls I knew were dating 32 year old men.
When I was 20, I dated a 35 year-old.
When I was 23 I was dating a 24 year old. And I am still married to her.
When I was 20 I dated a 20 year old. When I was 53 I dated a 20 year old. Stick to what you know, I say
I had an uncle like that. Can't say it ended well, sadly enough.
But he had a laugh on the way, right?
And, also, how does it end "well"? Are some people immortal? Or does it just feel like relentlessly endless life, in a marriage?
I think there is a tremendous sense of contentment and happiness in spending your retirement with someone you've been with for 40 years. There is for me anyway.
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
Then military training should extend to looking at the weather forecast and the state of the grass.
Also steam trains in the Highlands. Recent one at Glenfinnan. @Sunil_Prasannan, you have been warned.
He's not going on that line - but to Kyle and THurso/Wick. No steamies on those at present, unless there is a one off special.
TBF I had forgotten the Strathspey line branching northeast from Aviemore that is partly steam operated. But I daresay they take the fire risk into account when deciding to light a boiler or press the starter on a diesel.
At the railway I used to volunteer at many years ago, we would go around in spring and autumn and cut down vegetation; in autumn with added controlled burning. At high-risk times, I believe they also had a large container of water in the guard's van along with a pump, so if the guard saw a fire he could at least start tackling it.
I used to quite enjoy those work parties. One person would use a burner/flamethrower to set fire to te vegetation, and the rest of us would beat it out with beaters once it had burned enough. When it had cooled down, we would return and saw down the very wood bits.
Since the decline of steam, the railways have really let trackside foliage become a major issue. Hence Network Rail's controversial schemes to clear much of it...
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
You can actually feel the heat building now, in London
This needs a sound track. Maybe the Specials and Ghost town?
I'm genuinely unsure that most of us will survive this HEAT-ATTACK; I expect millions of dead by Wednesday
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
If you wanted to make a rather morbid bet, I'd be willing to bet fewer people die next week than in the same week in six months time, ie the same corresponding week of January 2023.
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
I think you have the psychological reasoning wrong. The issue is control. There are a lot more things that you can do to keep warm - wear more clothes, use more blankets, star jumps, heating, fires, hot broth, insulation, etc.
But if it is hot enough there is nothing you can do except to use air conditioning. Drinking water, and a few other things help at merely hot temperatures, but there are temperatures that are so hot that only air conditioning, and a reliable electricity supply, will save you from.
It's the same with cars and planes - the control of driving your own car means that you believe you can avoid danger and it will be other people who will die. I can knit myself garments to keep myself warm, but I can't knit anything to help keep myself cool.
Something out of our control is more scary than something we can influence, and that's why heat is more scary than cold.
i. Leave the ECHR (YEs yes I know it's not part of the EU) or ii. Join the Euro.
Perhaps do both not sure that'd be allowed by the powers that be though...
Not sure where you get your boner for the Euro from?
Surely, the 2010-2011 eurozone crisis, and flat-footedness of the ECB since, has shown why that'd have been a bad idea for us.
It'd be a huge extra economic constraint for the removal of some marginal trade frictions. True, it would give us more political influence (as we'd be signed up to the whole thing) but that'd be far from decisive and only in one direction.
If the whole thing ever fell over, and it often looks very shaky, then we'd be horribly exposed.
It's just a way of framing the question of European political integration in the starkest terms. Either all in or all out.
But, in life, I find a good principle is that nothing is black & white.
So it is with this too, I believe.
Those Critical Race Theory classes were wasted on you
i. Leave the ECHR (YEs yes I know it's not part of the EU) or ii. Join the Euro.
Perhaps do both not sure that'd be allowed by the powers that be though...
Not sure where you get your boner for the Euro from?
Surely, the 2010-2011 eurozone crisis, and flat-footedness of the ECB since, has shown why that'd have been a bad idea for us.
It'd be a huge extra economic constraint for the removal of some marginal trade frictions. True, it would give us more political influence (as we'd be signed up to the whole thing) but that'd be far from decisive and only in one direction.
If the whole thing ever fell over, and it often looks very shaky, then we'd be horribly exposed.
It's just a way of framing the question of European political integration in the starkest terms. Either all in or all out.
But, in life, I find a good principle is that nothing is black & white.
So it is with this too, I believe.
Those Critical Race Theory classes were wasted on you
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
When Cassidy Hutchinson made her bombshell revelations to Congress, including that then-President Trump was going apeshit in his official limo, the Secret Service put out that this was NOT correct.
Now it transpires, that - according to the Inspector General of US Department of Homeland Security - that relevant texts by Secret Service agents were erased as (as published in today's NYT) "as part of a device replacement program"AFTER the IG had requested them as part of IG's own inquiry.
In addition, the IG reports that members of Secret Service have been stonewalling his investigation, by refusing to provide records until they were "reviewed" by department lawyers.
OR - my speculation - these records can also be disposed of in some fashion? If that hasn't already happened.
Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern NEW: 999 callers for suspected heart attacks or stroke in West Midlands are now being told it could be several hours before an ambulance reaches them.
@OFFICIALWMAS lost 2,300 hours of ambulance time outside hospitals on Monday with 700 emergency calls waiting at one point
I know I shouldn't react but it's 22°C in Birmingham in the shade at the moment. Hardly heatstroke weather.
That's kinda the point. The NHS is already at breaking point due to Covid alone. The impact of the high temperatures next week on a system on the edge - it could be very bad indeed.
You can actually feel the heat building now, in London
This needs a sound track. Maybe the Specials and Ghost town?
I'm genuinely unsure that most of us will survive this HEAT-ATTACK; I expect millions of dead by Wednesday
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
If you wanted to make a rather morbid bet, I'd be willing to bet fewer people die next week than in the same week in six months time, ie the same corresponding week of January 2023.
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
I think you have the psychological reasoning wrong. The issue is control. There are a lot more things that you can do to keep warm - wear more clothes, use more blankets, star jumps, heating, fires, hot broth, insulation, etc.
But if it is hot enough there is nothing you can do except to use air conditioning. Drinking water, and a few other things help at merely hot temperatures, but there are temperatures that are so hot that only air conditioning, and a reliable electricity supply, will save you from.
It's the same with cars and planes - the control of driving your own car means that you believe you can avoid danger and it will be other people who will die. I can knit myself garments to keep myself warm, but I can't knit anything to help keep myself cool.
Something out of our control is more scary than something we can influence, and that's why heat is more scary than cold.
None of that is true. The Tuareg have got on fine, forever. Conversely, if you are old and poor none of your anti-cold ploys are available to you.
The dual hurdles make it nearly impossible for Biden to follow through on selling the fighters to the NATO ally as lawmakers express exasperation over Ankara’s purchase of advanced Russian equipment, violating the territory of its neighbours and its drift toward autocracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
This is not going to make Erdogan happy, after he was persuaded to back down on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland.
Some of that 'advanced Russian equipment' are S-400 SAM systems. The same system that (allegedly) the Russians are pi**ed off about because it cannot shoot down HIMARS shells.
Erdogan might have bought a pup...
The S-400 is failing badly against the HIMARS. Which is hillarious, because each S400 defence rocket is an order of magnitide more expensive than the rockets the enemy is facing. They’ll be out of them soon enough, chasing rainbows.
Sadly, the Russians appear to be using Surface-to-Air missiles in a Surface-to-Ground role. They are designed for this, but are apparently highly inaccurate.
At this stage it seems the Russians are not even trying to pretend they are going after military targets. They just want to destroy Ukraine.
It's hard for the media to cover the military conflict, but easier for the media to cover damage to Ukrainian civilian infrastructure behind the front lines. They want to create the sense that Ukraine is losing so that the US public will decide they don't want to waste sending more support.
And why would the media want to do that? You are right about it being easier to film damage in Ukraine, though.
I haven't seen any references to using SAMs (Surface-to-Air missiles) against ground targets. Linkey?
I have seen quite a few reports of using naval Surface to Surface missiles against Ukrainian ground targets, though. The Russians have quite a lot of big anti-ship missiles, and they are fairly inaccurate against ground targets.
Seaslug surface to air (now all out of service, I think, at least in the Royal Navy) had a secondary land strike role. USN Talos, too.
Seaslug hit the wrong island, in the Falklands campaign, IIRC.
A barking mad system - you basically had to build the ship round it.
Or it could mean that more young women are dating older men, than young men are dating older women.
This is exactly the case.
When I was 23, I was mostly single, because the 23 year old girls I knew were dating 32 year old men.
When I was 20, I dated a 35 year-old.
When I was 23 I was dating a 24 year old. And I am still married to her.
When I was 20 I dated a 20 year old. When I was 53 I dated a 20 year old. Stick to what you know, I say
I had an uncle like that. Can't say it ended well, sadly enough.
But he had a laugh on the way, right?
And, also, how does it end "well"? Are some people immortal? Or does it just feel like relentlessly endless life, in a marriage?
I think there is a tremendous sense of contentment and happiness in spending your retirement with someone you've been with for 40 years. There is for me anyway.
(Mrs P. declines to comment...)
Very true! Sadly Mrs C is having a bad time at the moment as I am by no means as well as I’d like to be!
Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern NEW: 999 callers for suspected heart attacks or stroke in West Midlands are now being told it could be several hours before an ambulance reaches them.
@OFFICIALWMAS lost 2,300 hours of ambulance time outside hospitals on Monday with 700 emergency calls waiting at one point
I know I shouldn't react but it's 22°C in Birmingham in the shade at the moment. Hardly heatstroke weather.
That's kinda the point. The NHS is already at breaking point due to Covid alone. The impact of the high temperatures next week on a system on the edge - it could be very bad indeed.
i. Leave the ECHR (YEs yes I know it's not part of the EU) or ii. Join the Euro.
Perhaps do both not sure that'd be allowed by the powers that be though...
Not sure where you get your boner for the Euro from?
Surely, the 2010-2011 eurozone crisis, and flat-footedness of the ECB since, has shown why that'd have been a bad idea for us.
It'd be a huge extra economic constraint for the removal of some marginal trade frictions. True, it would give us more political influence (as we'd be signed up to the whole thing) but that'd be far from decisive and only in one direction.
If the whole thing ever fell over, and it often looks very shaky, then we'd be horribly exposed.
It's just a way of framing the question of European political integration in the starkest terms. Either all in or all out.
But, in life, I find a good principle is that nothing is black & white.
So it is with this too, I believe.
Those Critical Race Theory classes were wasted on you
The heat is ALREADY so historically bad they have started stabbing each other in the streets of Camden, at 4.17pm. I can see it from my window, FFS. Jesus Christ. BLOOD. BLOOD EVERYWHERE
Normally this starts at about 5.30
Knife crime seems to have very little attention in terms of media / politics these days. Might be a bit like the grooming gangs, is a huge problem which requires some difficult questions asking and controversial solutions.
Has crime even come up in the leadership race?
I hope not. MPs of all stripes are quick to just promise new law this, and harsher punishments for that, competing with one another. Having a Tory leadership contest talk about it would be that on steroids.
FPT: Flatlander said: "I suspect (no calculations) that using solar roof tiles to power a reversible heat pump would be more effective.
These are actually a thing now although they aren't cheap."
That is, more effective than my suggestion of changing the color of color of roofs, making them more reflective in the summer, more absorbent in the winter.
There were two qualifications in my original comment: for some buildings, in some climates. Let's say, for example, that you have a building that you plan to use for just five more years. It might make economic sense to repaint the roof twice a year, using very inexpensive paints (since they don't have to last long.
(It is good to hear that the combination you describe is actually being installed in some places. And I can imagine it being a good choice -- for some buildings, in some climates. If not now, in the future.)
There are quite a lot of low cost, low efficiency solar technologies out there that could have widespread usage - windows with CdTe or CIGS coverings, that would never be enough to power a building, but which could easily reduce energy consumption by 10-15%, and which (if installed when the building is built) my only add 1% to total costs.
And there's a company that a spinout from the University of Melbourne that's hoping to launch solar paint later this year. This would only be 1-2% efficient, but which could be extremely cheap to make and install. (That being said, I do worry that in some places, it would lead to buildings absorbing more heat - so I would want to see some more work before getting too excited.)
According to a relative, who does high-end domestic construction, solar panels on the roof not merely power the air-conditioning, they also can noticeably reduce the power required, since they act as a sun shade to the roof....
There's an idea we could pinch, even if only to the extent of a short number for Samaritans, whose adverts seem more common these days. https://www.samaritans.org/
Surely yet another gaffe by Biden? Bet that Fox News is already proclaiming it as such!
FPT: Flatlander said: "I suspect (no calculations) that using solar roof tiles to power a reversible heat pump would be more effective.
These are actually a thing now although they aren't cheap."
That is, more effective than my suggestion of changing the color of color of roofs, making them more reflective in the summer, more absorbent in the winter.
There were two qualifications in my original comment: for some buildings, in some climates. Let's say, for example, that you have a building that you plan to use for just five more years. It might make economic sense to repaint the roof twice a year, using very inexpensive paints (since they don't have to last long.
(It is good to hear that the combination you describe is actually being installed in some places. And I can imagine it being a good choice -- for some buildings, in some climates. If not now, in the future.)
There are quite a lot of low cost, low efficiency solar technologies out there that could have widespread usage - windows with CdTe or CIGS coverings, that would never be enough to power a building, but which could easily reduce energy consumption by 10-15%, and which (if installed when the building is built) my only add 1% to total costs.
And there's a company that a spinout from the University of Melbourne that's hoping to launch solar paint later this year. This would only be 1-2% efficient, but which could be extremely cheap to make and install. (That being said, I do worry that in some places, it would lead to buildings absorbing more heat - so I would want to see some more work before getting too excited.)
According to a relative, who does high-end domestic construction, solar panels on the roof not merely power the air-conditioning, they also can noticeably reduce the power required, since they act as a sun shade to the roof....
Is that a physical effect, because of an air gap between the panels and the roof, or because a proportion of the energy is converted to electricity instead of heat?
The dual hurdles make it nearly impossible for Biden to follow through on selling the fighters to the NATO ally as lawmakers express exasperation over Ankara’s purchase of advanced Russian equipment, violating the territory of its neighbours and its drift toward autocracy under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
This is not going to make Erdogan happy, after he was persuaded to back down on NATO membership for Sweden and Finland.
Some of that 'advanced Russian equipment' are S-400 SAM systems. The same system that (allegedly) the Russians are pi**ed off about because it cannot shoot down HIMARS shells.
Erdogan might have bought a pup...
The S-400 is failing badly against the HIMARS. Which is hillarious, because each S400 defence rocket is an order of magnitide more expensive than the rockets the enemy is facing. They’ll be out of them soon enough, chasing rainbows.
Sadly, the Russians appear to be using Surface-to-Air missiles in a Surface-to-Ground role. They are designed for this, but are apparently highly inaccurate.
At this stage it seems the Russians are not even trying to pretend they are going after military targets. They just want to destroy Ukraine.
It's hard for the media to cover the military conflict, but easier for the media to cover damage to Ukrainian civilian infrastructure behind the front lines. They want to create the sense that Ukraine is losing so that the US public will decide they don't want to waste sending more support.
And why would the media want to do that? You are right about it being easier to film damage in Ukraine, though.
I haven't seen any references to using SAMs (Surface-to-Air missiles) against ground targets. Linkey?
I have seen quite a few reports of using naval Surface to Surface missiles against Ukrainian ground targets, though. The Russians have quite a lot of big anti-ship missiles, and they are fairly inaccurate against ground targets.
Seaslug surface to air (now all out of service, I think, at least in the Royal Navy) had a secondary land strike role. USN Talos, too.
Seaslug hit the wrong island, in the Falklands campaign, IIRC.
A barking mad system - you basically had to build the ship round it.
THe fascinating thing was they had to provide a sort of railway siding complex, including one on each beam for when a missile went poorly and had to be quickly sidelined (literally) lest it hold up the entire loading. In David Brown RCNC's book on the relevant period of RN construction, I think.
Shaun Lintern @ShaunLintern NEW: 999 callers for suspected heart attacks or stroke in West Midlands are now being told it could be several hours before an ambulance reaches them.
@OFFICIALWMAS lost 2,300 hours of ambulance time outside hospitals on Monday with 700 emergency calls waiting at one point
Tories have really let the country go to shit.
Wales NHS is just as bad if not worse and that is the responsibility of Wales Labour
Indeed all parts of the UK have the same issues with nobody able to provide an answer, other than billions more
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
Then military training should extend to looking at the weather forecast and the state of the grass.
Also steam trains in the Highlands. Recent one at Glenfinnan. @Sunil_Prasannan, you have been warned.
He's not going on that line - but to Kyle and THurso/Wick. No steamies on those at present, unless there is a one off special.
Should go to Perth via Edinburgh to take in the Ladybank-Perth line too, which I am entering as I write! A lovely bit of railway through a quiet corner of Fife.
You can actually feel the heat building now, in London
This needs a sound track. Maybe the Specials and Ghost town?
I'm genuinely unsure that most of us will survive this HEAT-ATTACK; I expect millions of dead by Wednesday
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
If you wanted to make a rather morbid bet, I'd be willing to bet fewer people die next week than in the same week in six months time, ie the same corresponding week of January 2023.
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
Borderline acceptable most years, but bad taste this time round because people will be dying of not being able to afford the heating this winter.
That will definitely be happening, sadly, unless there is something radical from the Government to get the vulnerable through through the next few winters.
I'd slash the fuel cap to where it was in January 2019. Borrow to subsidise it if necessary. Find a way.
FPT: Flatlander said: "I suspect (no calculations) that using solar roof tiles to power a reversible heat pump would be more effective.
These are actually a thing now although they aren't cheap."
That is, more effective than my suggestion of changing the color of color of roofs, making them more reflective in the summer, more absorbent in the winter.
There were two qualifications in my original comment: for some buildings, in some climates. Let's say, for example, that you have a building that you plan to use for just five more years. It might make economic sense to repaint the roof twice a year, using very inexpensive paints (since they don't have to last long.
(It is good to hear that the combination you describe is actually being installed in some places. And I can imagine it being a good choice -- for some buildings, in some climates. If not now, in the future.)
There are quite a lot of low cost, low efficiency solar technologies out there that could have widespread usage - windows with CdTe or CIGS coverings, that would never be enough to power a building, but which could easily reduce energy consumption by 10-15%, and which (if installed when the building is built) my only add 1% to total costs.
And there's a company that a spinout from the University of Melbourne that's hoping to launch solar paint later this year. This would only be 1-2% efficient, but which could be extremely cheap to make and install. (That being said, I do worry that in some places, it would lead to buildings absorbing more heat - so I would want to see some more work before getting too excited.)
According to a relative, who does high-end domestic construction, solar panels on the roof not merely power the air-conditioning, they also can noticeably reduce the power required, since they act as a sun shade to the roof....
Is that a physical effect, because of an air gap between the panels and the roof, or because a proportion of the energy is converted to electricity instead of heat?
I believe that it is the air gap - all the frequencies are blocked by the panel, not just the ones it turns into electricity. At least that is my understanding of the effect that the architects/engineers model when they design the roof setups.
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
Then military training should extend to looking at the weather forecast and the state of the grass.
Also steam trains in the Highlands. Recent one at Glenfinnan. @Sunil_Prasannan, you have been warned.
He's not going on that line - but to Kyle and THurso/Wick. No steamies on those at present, unless there is a one off special.
Should go to Perth via Edinburgh to take in the Ladybank-Perth line too, which I am entering as I write! A lovely bit of railway through a quiet corner of Fife.
Ladybank is a dump.
It did keep you in lighting and paper for much of your working life ...
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
Claire Yaxley owes her mother thousands of pounds, but has still splashed out recently on a Fitbit, an exercise bike and a trip to Butlins.
"Things are getting more difficult every single day," the single mum-of-two admitted. "And yet I'm not putting money aside, I am spending it."
New research seen by the BBC suggests 25% of people are similarly stretched, but reluctant to stop spending.
The Grant Thornton and Retail Economics report surveyed 2,000 UK adults.
Ms Yaxley, who lives near Norwich with her daughters earns around £16,000 a year through various jobs in the education sector.
She has borrowed £6,000 from her mother to help make ends meet, and knows that she should be trying to pay her back, in addition to saving a bit every month given the rising cost of living.
But she said this rarely happens, because she's prioritising spending on treats for her family after a tough few years during the pandemic.
"My income fluctuates, but when I have a bit more, I do spend it rather than save it," she said.
That has included spending £100 on a foldable exercise bike and £430 on a weekend trip to Butlins holiday resort over the school holidays.
Ms Yaxley said she does feel "guilty" for spending on non-essential items, particularly given the rising cost of petrol and food. But after two years of Covid restrictions, she feels like the family deserves it.
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
FPT: Flatlander said: "I suspect (no calculations) that using solar roof tiles to power a reversible heat pump would be more effective.
These are actually a thing now although they aren't cheap."
That is, more effective than my suggestion of changing the color of color of roofs, making them more reflective in the summer, more absorbent in the winter.
There were two qualifications in my original comment: for some buildings, in some climates. Let's say, for example, that you have a building that you plan to use for just five more years. It might make economic sense to repaint the roof twice a year, using very inexpensive paints (since they don't have to last long.
(It is good to hear that the combination you describe is actually being installed in some places. And I can imagine it being a good choice -- for some buildings, in some climates. If not now, in the future.)
There are quite a lot of low cost, low efficiency solar technologies out there that could have widespread usage - windows with CdTe or CIGS coverings, that would never be enough to power a building, but which could easily reduce energy consumption by 10-15%, and which (if installed when the building is built) my only add 1% to total costs.
And there's a company that a spinout from the University of Melbourne that's hoping to launch solar paint later this year. This would only be 1-2% efficient, but which could be extremely cheap to make and install. (That being said, I do worry that in some places, it would lead to buildings absorbing more heat - so I would want to see some more work before getting too excited.)
According to a relative, who does high-end domestic construction, solar panels on the roof not merely power the air-conditioning, they also can noticeably reduce the power required, since they act as a sun shade to the roof....
Is that a physical effect, because of an air gap between the panels and the roof, or because a proportion of the energy is converted to electricity instead of heat?
I believe that it is the air gap - all the frequencies are blocked by the panel, not just the ones it turns into electricity. At least that is my understanding of the effect that the architects/engineers model when they design the roof setups.
Interesting. That would be an advantage for panels added to the roof, as opposed to those integrated into the roof tiles.
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
Then military training should extend to looking at the weather forecast and the state of the grass.
Sometimes military necessity outweighs such concerns.
In Peacetime? On Salibury plain?
There is a small war going on. You may have seen something in the news about it. We are training some of the soldiers fighting in it. See my link above.
Imagine telling a Ukrainian recruit that we are stopping their training because the grass is too dry.
Claire Yaxley owes her mother thousands of pounds, but has still splashed out recently on a Fitbit, an exercise bike and a trip to Butlins.
"Things are getting more difficult every single day," the single mum-of-two admitted. "And yet I'm not putting money aside, I am spending it."
New research seen by the BBC suggests 25% of people are similarly stretched, but reluctant to stop spending.
The Grant Thornton and Retail Economics report surveyed 2,000 UK adults.
Ms Yaxley, who lives near Norwich with her daughters earns around £16,000 a year through various jobs in the education sector.
She has borrowed £6,000 from her mother to help make ends meet, and knows that she should be trying to pay her back, in addition to saving a bit every month given the rising cost of living.
But she said this rarely happens, because she's prioritising spending on treats for her family after a tough few years during the pandemic.
"My income fluctuates, but when I have a bit more, I do spend it rather than save it," she said.
That has included spending £100 on a foldable exercise bike and £430 on a weekend trip to Butlins holiday resort over the school holidays.
Ms Yaxley said she does feel "guilty" for spending on non-essential items, particularly given the rising cost of petrol and food. But after two years of Covid restrictions, she feels like the family deserves it.
Or it could mean that more young women are dating older men, than young men are dating older women.
This is exactly the case.
When I was 23, I was mostly single, because the 23 year old girls I knew were dating 32 year old men.
When I was 20, I dated a 35 year-old.
When I was 23 I was dating a 24 year old. And I am still married to her.
When I was 20 I dated a 20 year old. When I was 53 I dated a 20 year old. Stick to what you know, I say
I had an uncle like that. Can't say it ended well, sadly enough.
But he had a laugh on the way, right?
And, also, how does it end "well"? Are some people immortal? Or does it just feel like relentlessly endless life, in a marriage?
I think there is a tremendous sense of contentment and happiness in spending your retirement with someone you've been with for 40 years. There is for me anyway.
(Mrs P. declines to comment...)
Very true! Sadly Mrs C is having a bad time at the moment as I am by no means as well as I’d like to be!
Sorry to hear that OKC, hope things improve for you soon.
You can actually feel the heat building now, in London
This needs a sound track. Maybe the Specials and Ghost town?
I'm genuinely unsure that most of us will survive this HEAT-ATTACK; I expect millions of dead by Wednesday
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
If you wanted to make a rather morbid bet, I'd be willing to bet fewer people die next week than in the same week in six months time, ie the same corresponding week of January 2023.
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
Borderline acceptable most years, but bad taste this time round because people will be dying of not being able to afford the heating this winter.
That will definitely be happening, sadly, unless there is something radical from the Government to get the vulnerable through through the next few winters.
I'd slash the fuel cap to where it was in January 2019. Borrow to subsidise it if necessary. Find a way.
I would rebuild the taxation of fuel so that the amount taken is fixed per litre. Yes, it is several taxes. It can be done. So the Treasury gets XXp per litre, rain or shine. This would reduce the size of the movements in fuel prices to the actual changes in cost.
i. Leave the ECHR (YEs yes I know it's not part of the EU) or ii. Join the Euro.
Perhaps do both not sure that'd be allowed by the powers that be though...
Not sure where you get your boner for the Euro from?
Surely, the 2010-2011 eurozone crisis, and flat-footedness of the ECB since, has shown why that'd have been a bad idea for us.
It'd be a huge extra economic constraint for the removal of some marginal trade frictions. True, it would give us more political influence (as we'd be signed up to the whole thing) but that'd be far from decisive and only in one direction.
If the whole thing ever fell over, and it often looks very shaky, then we'd be horribly exposed.
We have loads of contracts where we purchase in both euro and sterling. We can only sell in one currency, it'd knock out all currency exchange risk and expense for us
"280 people BURNED to death - basically - as they race from their homes, pets shrieking in pain as their adorable eyes MELT
TENS of THOUSANDS expected to DIE as extreme brutal ravaging temperatures STALK THE LANDS LIKE A DRUNKEN GORGON
Billions of hectares of fertile land INCINERATED. Savage spires of flame eating up entire countries like huge golden cathedrals of Satan with jaws the size of Portugal and even bigger than that
DOGS ON THE MOON
Diane Abbot EXPLODES. Orgasmo-furnaces in HELL. AYYYYYYYYDEATHDEATH ahahahaha DEATH"
Then military training should extend to looking at the weather forecast and the state of the grass.
Sometimes military necessity outweighs such concerns.
In Peacetime? On Salibury plain?
There is a small war going on. You may have seen something in the news about it. We are training some of the soldiers fighting in it. See my link above.
Imagine telling a Ukrainian recruit that we are stopping their training because the grass is too dry.
No need to imagine. The linked story said they did have to stop training because of the fire started by earlier training.
I believe ‘Walt’ is the term for this kind of thing.
It is the term for what is being alleged, after one W. Mitty, but I'd be very surprised in her case. So obvious a solecism. More likely that she'd been on a dive when in office at MoD and been given an honorary pair and she put them on at once, if only temporarily, by way of compliment to her hosts. She's in mufti anyway. It's not as if she is in orficer's fore and aft rig where wearing them really would be infra dig.
You can actually feel the heat building now, in London
This needs a sound track. Maybe the Specials and Ghost town?
I'm genuinely unsure that most of us will survive this HEAT-ATTACK; I expect millions of dead by Wednesday
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
If you wanted to make a rather morbid bet, I'd be willing to bet fewer people die next week than in the same week in six months time, ie the same corresponding week of January 2023.
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
Borderline acceptable most years, but bad taste this time round because people will be dying of not being able to afford the heating this winter.
That will definitely be happening, sadly, unless there is something radical from the Government to get the vulnerable through through the next few winters.
I'd slash the fuel cap to where it was in January 2019. Borrow to subsidise it if necessary. Find a way.
I would rebuild the taxation of fuel so that the amount taken is fixed per litre. Yes, it is several taxes. It can be done. So the Treasury gets XXp per litre, rain or shine. This would reduce the size of the movements in fuel prices to the actual changes in cost.
You could do that by changing it to a carbon tax, and then apply the carbon tax across the board (currently road fuels are taxed much more heavily than other sources of carbon).
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Still, at 60 miles per hour, the vast majority of your energy (unless you are driving up hill) will be used to overcome wind resistance.
But Mr. "Art of the Deal" couldn't get that deal done.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-now-firing-s-300-surface-to-air-missiles-at-land-targets-in-ukraine-official
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/07/11/desperate-russian-troops-apparently-lobbed-anti-air-missiles-at-ukrainian-targets-on-land/?sh=72091b9a5497
This is going to make World War One look like a laughable picnic with Nutella sandwiches and crisps and squash
DOGS ON THE MOON
Starmer has his Red Wall of ageing thickos who he can't offend so it's an open goal
Even Sterling couldn't miss!
I hardly think so
Not enough homosexual couples to massively swing the overall numbers anyway, I'd have thought. Even is you say 10% (higher than official ONS stats still, I think) then even a big disparity there would only give youa few percentage points difference at the overall level.
Point two more relevant, I think. And also a likely reality that women often still date someone a bit older?
People always bang on about the "danger" of heat, but heat is time and again shown to be far less deadly than cold.
Its just heat is exotic, so people talk about that more. Its like plane crashes versus car crashes. Next week's weather is still safer than bog standard normal winter weather.
Normally this starts at about 5.30
Has crime even come up in the leadership race?
And, also, how does it end "well"? Are some people immortal? Or does it just feel like relentlessly endless life, in a marriage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMEGpb0YpHM
There's an idea we could pinch, even if only to the extent of a short number for Samaritans, whose adverts seem more common these days.
https://www.samaritans.org/
And, it's effectively irreversible - a decision to join could only be taken once.
I'd never vote for it, even with a gun to my head.
So it is with this too, I believe.
(Mrs P. declines to comment...)
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tube-london-underground-chronic-fare-dodgers-b1012572.html
I used to quite enjoy those work parties. One person would use a burner/flamethrower to set fire to te vegetation, and the rest of us would beat it out with beaters once it had burned enough. When it had cooled down, we would return and saw down the very wood bits.
Since the decline of steam, the railways have really let trackside foliage become a major issue. Hence Network Rail's controversial schemes to clear much of it...
But if it is hot enough there is nothing you can do except to use air conditioning. Drinking water, and a few other things help at merely hot temperatures, but there are temperatures that are so hot that only air conditioning, and a reliable electricity supply, will save you from.
It's the same with cars and planes - the control of driving your own car means that you believe you can avoid danger and it will be other people who will die. I can knit myself garments to keep myself warm, but I can't knit anything to help keep myself cool.
Something out of our control is more scary than something we can influence, and that's why heat is more scary than cold.
Etiquette for difficult times - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Z5xMhVGg8
A perfect summer's day, looking out from our kitchen towards Melbury Beacon. Is there any better place to be on such a day?
Now it transpires, that - according to the Inspector General of US Department of Homeland Security - that relevant texts by Secret Service agents were erased as (as published in today's NYT) "as part of a device replacement program"AFTER the IG had requested them as part of IG's own inquiry.
In addition, the IG reports that members of Secret Service have been stonewalling his investigation, by refusing to provide records until they were "reviewed" by department lawyers.
OR - my speculation - these records can also be disposed of in some fashion? If that hasn't already happened.
The ex-Chancellor was taking part in ConservativeHome hustings on Friday when the blunder was spotted
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-spelling-mistake-campaign-tory-leadereship-contest-latest-b1012663.html
A barking mad system - you basically had to build the ship round it.
And can Leon (and Vicar of Bray) be far behind?
Indeed all parts of the UK have the same issues with nobody able to provide an answer, other than billions more
I'd slash the fuel cap to where it was in January 2019. Borrow to subsidise it if necessary. Find a way.
Claire Yaxley owes her mother thousands of pounds, but has still splashed out recently on a Fitbit, an exercise bike and a trip to Butlins.
"Things are getting more difficult every single day," the single mum-of-two admitted. "And yet I'm not putting money aside, I am spending it."
New research seen by the BBC suggests 25% of people are similarly stretched, but reluctant to stop spending.
The Grant Thornton and Retail Economics report surveyed 2,000 UK adults.
Ms Yaxley, who lives near Norwich with her daughters earns around £16,000 a year through various jobs in the education sector.
She has borrowed £6,000 from her mother to help make ends meet, and knows that she should be trying to pay her back, in addition to saving a bit every month given the rising cost of living.
But she said this rarely happens, because she's prioritising spending on treats for her family after a tough few years during the pandemic.
"My income fluctuates, but when I have a bit more, I do spend it rather than save it," she said.
That has included spending £100 on a foldable exercise bike and £430 on a weekend trip to Butlins holiday resort over the school holidays.
Ms Yaxley said she does feel "guilty" for spending on non-essential items, particularly given the rising cost of petrol and food. But after two years of Covid restrictions, she feels like the family deserves it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62148525.amp
50 years.
Younger people at high risk from Covid, as well as health and social care staff, will also get the booster.
Makes sense to boost heading into autumn/winter
A very pleasant 17 degrees here in the Lakes with a light breeze and blue skies.
Just saying.
Imagine telling a Ukrainian recruit that we are stopping their training because the grass is too dry.
That's part of the post-Covid jobs miracle. People having several part-time jobs adding up to not enough.
We can only sell in one currency, it'd knock out all currency exchange risk and expense for us
Melon twisted for good.