"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
By the look of the traffic on the Kerch bridge a lot of Russians seem to think Crimea will be Ukranian again soon.
No more beach 2022 bikini pics. #Russians are hastily leaving #Crimea via the Crimean bridge. “There’s a huge traffic jam here,” says the author of the video. #UkraineRussianWar https://t.co/Xs5RpMc0g3
Early in the war, when the advance on Kyiv failed, there was some translated stuff I saw from Russian social media from people in Crimea. They were all making plans on the basis of what happens if the Ukrainians come…. They expected no mercy for Russian incomers since 2014.
Truss as bad as my worst fears. Johnsons downfall was bookended by Paterson and Pincher. Saying she would vote down the privileges committee inquiry into Johnson shows how little she understands or minds that
That, and the media stuff identified by TND.
There isn't another vote on the committee is there? its work has begun and it will complete.
I believe their recommendations, if any, can be voted down in the Chamber.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
For us PBers who have never partaken of cocaine, you’ll have to explain the plan’s deficiency.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
The Finland rumour keeps reading its head.
I was there awhile in July and I never heard no rumour …
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
For us PBers who have never partaken of cocaine, you’ll have to explain the plan’s deficiency.
Back in the day (thankfully, many years ago), when my nostrils were over-used I'd bung it in a rizla and smoke it...
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
The Finland rumour keeps reading its head.
I was there awhile in July and I never heard no rumour …
Truss as bad as my worst fears. Johnsons downfall was bookended by Paterson and Pincher. Saying she would vote down the privileges committee inquiry into Johnson shows how little she understands or minds that
That, and the media stuff identified by TND.
There isn't another vote on the committee is there? its work has begun and it will complete.
I believe their recommendations, if any, can be voted down in the Chamber.
Thx. So Truss will whip her tribe to vote it down after all this?
Or is she just saying this to curry favour with the members until she dumps on them in Sept?
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
The Finland rumour keeps reading its head.
I was there awhile in July and I never heard no rumour …
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
By the look of the traffic on the Kerch bridge a lot of Russians seem to think Crimea will be Ukranian again soon.
No more beach 2022 bikini pics. #Russians are hastily leaving #Crimea via the Crimean bridge. “There’s a huge traffic jam here,” says the author of the video. #UkraineRussianWar https://t.co/Xs5RpMc0g3
Early in the war, when the advance on Kyiv failed, there was some translated stuff I saw from Russian social media from people in Crimea. They were all making plans on the basis of what happens if the Ukrainians come…. They expected no mercy for Russian incomers since 2014.
I’m sure most colonial settlers have this always at the back of their minds, the fallback plan. The Anatolians in northern Cyprus, the Han in Tibet, the Brits in Ireland, etc.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
So, anecdote time. This is someone told me, that someone told them, that someone experienced this and told them about it. So, make of it what you will, but this story is going around now.
Woman had a bicycle accident in London and had to go to A&E. They told her there that she should have a tetanus jab, but they didn't have any in the hospital, so they sent her to a pharmacy to pay for one instead. *And* they didn't have any slings, so one of the nurses improvised one out of her tights.
Not sure if I believe it. Can things really be that bad? Maybe they are. People will tend to trust stories that are told to them by people they trust though, and I trust the person who told me, and she trusts the person who told her, so...
The one and only time I sought assistance from the NHS in London I was horrified. Honestly one of the most traumatic incidents in my life. Much worse than improvised sling or lack of tetanus jag.
More than 10 years ago now my daughter was studying in London and ended up in casualty. We went down as concerned parents do. It was honestly like something out of the third world. I have never seen any hospital like it before or since. It struck me as a positively dangerous place to be when you were well. To be there when you were ill bordered on reckless.
Given I owe my life to the NHS in London (I was born there and have had subsequent need for its services) you’ll forgive me if I take all this with a massive pinch of salt. Funny how it’s always the people who are not in London, or indeed England (in the case of @StuartDickson never even visited) are the biggest experts on the state of the place. It’s a trait that’s reciprocated by we ourselves but, Lord, the hypocritical sanctimony.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
So, anecdote time. This is someone told me, that someone told them, that someone experienced this and told them about it. So, make of it what you will, but this story is going around now.
Woman had a bicycle accident in London and had to go to A&E. They told her there that she should have a tetanus jab, but they didn't have any in the hospital, so they sent her to a pharmacy to pay for one instead. *And* they didn't have any slings, so one of the nurses improvised one out of her tights.
Not sure if I believe it. Can things really be that bad? Maybe they are. People will tend to trust stories that are told to them by people they trust though, and I trust the person who told me, and she trusts the person who told her, so...
The one and only time I sought assistance from the NHS in London I was horrified. Honestly one of the most traumatic incidents in my life. Much worse than improvised sling or lack of tetanus jag.
More than 10 years ago now my daughter was studying in London and ended up in casualty. We went down as concerned parents do. It was honestly like something out of the third world. I have never seen any hospital like it before or since. It struck me as a positively dangerous place to be when you were well. To be there when you were ill bordered on reckless.
Yes. “Third world” would be an apt description for my experience too. I feel quite ill even thinking about it.
You’ve never even visited London, if you had you would know some basic facts about the place and wouldn’t constantly describe its inhabitants as being essentially vermin.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
It's about flashpoints and smokepoints, chart to knock yourself out with
Sunflower oil for instance is polyunsaturated but high smoke point
That's interesting, but not the main issue imo. The less saturated a fat is (the oxygen atoms not saturated by hydrogen atoms - I think they're atoms), the more unstable it is, and the more bits are going to break away when heated, becoming free radicals in the body. So sunflower oil is a far more dangerous oil to cook with at high temps than lard. Olive oil is a bit better; it's mono-unsaturated, it is more saturated than sunflower oil, and goes solid if refrigerated for that reason. But still not advisable to fry with it, which is why there is no tradition of frying using olive oil.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
For us PBers who have never partaken of cocaine, you’ll have to explain the plan’s deficiency.
Me, about 4 times? Nasally always. The point being the stuff eats through the membrane in your nose. What other membrane can you think of that would even less rather have eaten away? If you think it would make blowing your nose painful...
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
A Well Known Rock Star used to boast that he protected his nostrils by taking cocaine per anum (boofing in the trade). Good plan till you think about it....
For us PBers who have never partaken of cocaine, you’ll have to explain the plan’s deficiency.
Truss as bad as my worst fears. Johnsons downfall was bookended by Paterson and Pincher. Saying she would vote down the privileges committee inquiry into Johnson shows how little she understands or minds that
That, and the media stuff identified by TND.
There isn't another vote on the committee is there? its work has begun and it will complete.
I believe their recommendations, if any, can be voted down in the Chamber.
Thx. So Truss will whip her tribe to vote it down after all this?
Or is she just saying this to curry favour with the members until she dumps on them in Sept?
Who knows?
I doubt if anyone does, except (perhaps) her. The Tories seem poised to spin the wheel and hope for the best.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
If anal administration is superior to oral then perhaps some effort might be put into health education?
Swallowing them is pretty effective, and easier for most.
So, anecdote time. This is someone told me, that someone told them, that someone experienced this and told them about it. So, make of it what you will, but this story is going around now.
Woman had a bicycle accident in London and had to go to A&E. They told her there that she should have a tetanus jab, but they didn't have any in the hospital, so they sent her to a pharmacy to pay for one instead. *And* they didn't have any slings, so one of the nurses improvised one out of her tights.
Not sure if I believe it. Can things really be that bad? Maybe they are. People will tend to trust stories that are told to them by people they trust though, and I trust the person who told me, and she trusts the person who told her, so...
The one and only time I sought assistance from the NHS in London I was horrified. Honestly one of the most traumatic incidents in my life. Much worse than improvised sling or lack of tetanus jag.
More than 10 years ago now my daughter was studying in London and ended up in casualty. We went down as concerned parents do. It was honestly like something out of the third world. I have never seen any hospital like it before or since. It struck me as a positively dangerous place to be when you were well. To be there when you were ill bordered on reckless.
Given I owe my life to the NHS in London (I was born there and have had subsequent need for its services) you’ll forgive me if I take all this with a massive pinch of salt. Funny how it’s always the people who are not in London, or indeed England (in the case of @StuartDickson never even visited) are the biggest experts on the state of the place. It’s a trait that’s reciprocated by we ourselves but, Lord, the hypocritical sanctimony.
My girlfriend has worked in hospitals in London and Lothian. From her experience, it's hospital by hospital.
I've personally had a great experience on the NHS everywhere I've been, from shoulder surgery to snow blindness.
Even the GP has finally got their act together - did an econsultation a couple of days ago, phone call an hour later, in the next day for a quick check. And they just want me to email them with a symptom update next week. Brilliant!
So, anecdote time. This is someone told me, that someone told them, that someone experienced this and told them about it. So, make of it what you will, but this story is going around now.
Woman had a bicycle accident in London and had to go to A&E. They told her there that she should have a tetanus jab, but they didn't have any in the hospital, so they sent her to a pharmacy to pay for one instead. *And* they didn't have any slings, so one of the nurses improvised one out of her tights.
Not sure if I believe it. Can things really be that bad? Maybe they are. People will tend to trust stories that are told to them by people they trust though, and I trust the person who told me, and she trusts the person who told her, so...
The one and only time I sought assistance from the NHS in London I was horrified. Honestly one of the most traumatic incidents in my life. Much worse than improvised sling or lack of tetanus jag.
More than 10 years ago now my daughter was studying in London and ended up in casualty. We went down as concerned parents do. It was honestly like something out of the third world. I have never seen any hospital like it before or since. It struck me as a positively dangerous place to be when you were well. To be there when you were ill bordered on reckless.
Given I owe my life to the NHS in London (I was born there and have had subsequent need for its services) you’ll forgive me if I take all this with a massive pinch of salt. Funny how it’s always the people who are not in London, or indeed England (in the case of @StuartDickson never even visited) are the biggest experts on the state of the place. It’s a trait that’s reciprocated by we ourselves but, Lord, the hypocritical sanctimony.
I've used the NHS in London a couple of times and it was fine.
Mind you I used a third world medical system last year following a scary insect bite and that was pretty OK as well.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
That will be because it is not, in fact, a wise idea.
The only thing you should absorb through your eyeballs is vodka:
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
Your last point is a massive and not widely known worry.
SNAP POLL: 45% of Americans say it is a very big problem if Donald Trump took classified material with him to his private residence after leaving office.
Jeez. America, its norms, institutions and democracy is in a very bad place.
Although the encouraging thing there is that barely a quarter of Republicans say it's not a problem at all, so a clear majority concede it is a problem to some degree.
I agree.
Indeed, the polling is really moving against Trump as Republican nominee.
The Tory party is in an awful mess potentially. Judging by the cheers and shouting the membership worship Johnson and can't understand why he has gone and yet the majority of his cabinet and lower ministers resigned en masse because he was unfit for office.
The stab in the back myth aligned with the king 'o the water is going to poison things for years and Johnson will love stirring the cauldron.
Talking of which:
Liz Truss says she would vote to end the privileges committee investigation into whether the PM misled parliament (if such a vote existed)
Jeez she really is clueless . Even if she could do this it would look shocking to the public that she’s trying to get Johnson off. The more I see of her the more I loathe her .
At least she will purge Woke Lefty language from our primary schools mathematics:
How absolutely extraordinary. She obviously doesn't know the meaning of those words. Or is pretending not to. I don't know which is worse.
Edit: I had to go back and look again. But it does seem to be her account, not a parody one.
Some twenty odd years ago I thought a tutorial student was taking the piss when using 'times' as a verb instead of 'multiply'. As in "you times a with b to get c". Regrettably, that seems to be the language used in schools nowadays.
In their defence, they do get taught ‘times’ tables.
So was I in the 1940s. And they went up to 12!
Nevertheless, the act of multiplication was described as "times". You said "six times seven is forty two".
But not "timesed by", which is what I've heard kids say. It's the ugly verbing of "times" that is the issue
What's wrong with using times as a verb? It's not just the kids, I've always said it and I am in my forties, but perhaps I'm a bit common.
Well the dictionary lists it primarily as a preposition, and only as an informal verb
I don't think I've ever heard a mathematician say "timesed by"
When teaching maths and physics I would use the term "times" for younger students and weaker students who were working towards grade 4 or C. Any older students with some ability in the subject, I would use multiply, or even product of.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
The question, though, is why are we encouraging (the very inflationary process of) turning cooking oil into renewable diesel, when parts of the world are close to starving?
To return to Luckyguy's point, it seems perverse that we are incentivising farmers to grow crops to burn, rather than to feed, when there might not be enough food to go around.
So, anecdote time. This is someone told me, that someone told them, that someone experienced this and told them about it. So, make of it what you will, but this story is going around now.
Woman had a bicycle accident in London and had to go to A&E. They told her there that she should have a tetanus jab, but they didn't have any in the hospital, so they sent her to a pharmacy to pay for one instead. *And* they didn't have any slings, so one of the nurses improvised one out of her tights.
Not sure if I believe it. Can things really be that bad? Maybe they are. People will tend to trust stories that are told to them by people they trust though, and I trust the person who told me, and she trusts the person who told her, so...
The one and only time I sought assistance from the NHS in London I was horrified. Honestly one of the most traumatic incidents in my life. Much worse than improvised sling or lack of tetanus jag.
More than 10 years ago now my daughter was studying in London and ended up in casualty. We went down as concerned parents do. It was honestly like something out of the third world. I have never seen any hospital like it before or since. It struck me as a positively dangerous place to be when you were well. To be there when you were ill bordered on reckless.
Given I owe my life to the NHS in London (I was born there and have had subsequent need for its services) you’ll forgive me if I take all this with a massive pinch of salt. Funny how it’s always the people who are not in London, or indeed England (in the case of @StuartDickson never even visited) are the biggest experts on the state of the place. It’s a trait that’s reciprocated by we ourselves but, Lord, the hypocritical sanctimony.
I've used the NHS in London a couple of times and it was fine.
Mind you I used a third world medical system last year following a scary insect bite and that was pretty OK as well.
Third world Casualty can be very good at third world problems, so Foxjr found out in the Amazon jungle having chopped his shin with a machete*. The staff saw this all the time and stitched him up neatly and sent him off with appropriate pills. It isn't the place to turn up with a condition needing high tech, such as unstable angina or an evolving stroke.
Remote places can be worse. A second cousin of mine died of appendicitis in a mining camp in PNG.
Casualty is the path of least resistance, where anyone can and will be seen, at no cost other than waiting, and without a gatekeeper like a GP. As such it will always attract a less salubrious crowd, particularly after dark. Ultimately all systems have good and bad staff.
* any young man should accumulate a few scars to dine out on later in life.
The Tory party is in an awful mess potentially. Judging by the cheers and shouting the membership worship Johnson and can't understand why he has gone and yet the majority of his cabinet and lower ministers resigned en masse because he was unfit for office.
The stab in the back myth aligned with the king 'o the water is going to poison things for years and Johnson will love stirring the cauldron.
Talking of which:
Liz Truss says she would vote to end the privileges committee investigation into whether the PM misled parliament (if such a vote existed)
Jeez she really is clueless . Even if she could do this it would look shocking to the public that she’s trying to get Johnson off. The more I see of her the more I loathe her .
At least she will purge Woke Lefty language from our primary schools mathematics:
How absolutely extraordinary. She obviously doesn't know the meaning of those words. Or is pretending not to. I don't know which is worse.
Edit: I had to go back and look again. But it does seem to be her account, not a parody one.
Some twenty odd years ago I thought a tutorial student was taking the piss when using 'times' as a verb instead of 'multiply'. As in "you times a with b to get c". Regrettably, that seems to be the language used in schools nowadays.
In their defence, they do get taught ‘times’ tables.
So was I in the 1940s. And they went up to 12!
Nevertheless, the act of multiplication was described as "times". You said "six times seven is forty two".
But not "timesed by", which is what I've heard kids say. It's the ugly verbing of "times" that is the issue
What's wrong with using times as a verb? It's not just the kids, I've always said it and I am in my forties, but perhaps I'm a bit common.
Well the dictionary lists it primarily as a preposition, and only as an informal verb
I don't think I've ever heard a mathematician say "timesed by"
I'm not sure I've heard one say "multiplied by" either. The reality is that once they've become a professional mathematician, all that multiplication and addition and actual numbers is rather beneath them.
Yes, absorption from suppositories is very quick and complete. We used to use them for post op analgesia for surgery on kids. Brits don't seem keen though.
I used to share a flat with a guy who would put acid tabs (as in LSD) in his eyes as he said they absorbed more quickly into the brain. I was never terribly convinced it was a wise idea.
That will be because it is not, in fact, a wise idea.
The only thing you should absorb through your eyeballs is vodka:
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
Excellent. Thank you.
Olive Oil heated to a high temperature loses much of its health advantage, and the smoke (low smoke point temperarure) is rather toxic.
Something like rapeseed oil is a better option for frying.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
Have I read those numbers right (or has my maths gone down the pan)? £30 per MWh = 3p per kWh.
I would have thought 10p per kWh wholesale would be pretty acceptable right now.
The Tory party is in an awful mess potentially. Judging by the cheers and shouting the membership worship Johnson and can't understand why he has gone and yet the majority of his cabinet and lower ministers resigned en masse because he was unfit for office.
The stab in the back myth aligned with the king 'o the water is going to poison things for years and Johnson will love stirring the cauldron.
Talking of which:
Liz Truss says she would vote to end the privileges committee investigation into whether the PM misled parliament (if such a vote existed)
Jeez she really is clueless . Even if she could do this it would look shocking to the public that she’s trying to get Johnson off. The more I see of her the more I loathe her .
At least she will purge Woke Lefty language from our primary schools mathematics:
How absolutely extraordinary. She obviously doesn't know the meaning of those words. Or is pretending not to. I don't know which is worse.
Edit: I had to go back and look again. But it does seem to be her account, not a parody one.
Some twenty odd years ago I thought a tutorial student was taking the piss when using 'times' as a verb instead of 'multiply'. As in "you times a with b to get c". Regrettably, that seems to be the language used in schools nowadays.
In their defence, they do get taught ‘times’ tables.
So was I in the 1940s. And they went up to 12!
Nevertheless, the act of multiplication was described as "times". You said "six times seven is forty two".
But not "timesed by", which is what I've heard kids say. It's the ugly verbing of "times" that is the issue
What's wrong with using times as a verb? It's not just the kids, I've always said it and I am in my forties, but perhaps I'm a bit common.
Well the dictionary lists it primarily as a preposition, and only as an informal verb
I don't think I've ever heard a mathematician say "timesed by"
When teaching maths and physics I would use the term "times" for younger students and weaker students who were working towards grade 4 or C. Any older students with some ability in the subject, I would use multiply, or even product of.
Keep Brexit safe, cut taxes by printing money, talk culture war bollx, send anyone in a small boat back to africa, let Johnson off the hook for lying to parliament, bring back grammars, cut non-existent red tape and so on and on.
The Tory party is in an awful mess potentially. Judging by the cheers and shouting the membership worship Johnson and can't understand why he has gone and yet the majority of his cabinet and lower ministers resigned en masse because he was unfit for office.
The stab in the back myth aligned with the king 'o the water is going to poison things for years and Johnson will love stirring the cauldron.
Talking of which:
Liz Truss says she would vote to end the privileges committee investigation into whether the PM misled parliament (if such a vote existed)
Jeez she really is clueless . Even if she could do this it would look shocking to the public that she’s trying to get Johnson off. The more I see of her the more I loathe her .
At least she will purge Woke Lefty language from our primary schools mathematics:
How absolutely extraordinary. She obviously doesn't know the meaning of those words. Or is pretending not to. I don't know which is worse.
Edit: I had to go back and look again. But it does seem to be her account, not a parody one.
Some twenty odd years ago I thought a tutorial student was taking the piss when using 'times' as a verb instead of 'multiply'. As in "you times a with b to get c". Regrettably, that seems to be the language used in schools nowadays.
In their defence, they do get taught ‘times’ tables.
So was I in the 1940s. And they went up to 12!
Nevertheless, the act of multiplication was described as "times". You said "six times seven is forty two".
But not "timesed by", which is what I've heard kids say. It's the ugly verbing of "times" that is the issue
What's wrong with using times as a verb? It's not just the kids, I've always said it and I am in my forties, but perhaps I'm a bit common.
Well the dictionary lists it primarily as a preposition, and only as an informal verb
I don't think I've ever heard a mathematician say "timesed by"
When teaching maths and physics I would use the term "times" for younger students and weaker students who were working towards grade 4 or C. Any older students with some ability in the subject, I would use multiply, or even product of.
I would use multiply for everyone because everyone is capable of understanding the word and what it means.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
Excellent. Thank you.
Olive Oil heated to a high temperature loses much of its health advantage, and the smoke (low smoke point temperarure) is rather toxic.
Something like rapeseed oil is a better option for frying.
No it isn't. Ghee, coconut oil, palm oil, are better options for frying. Rapeseed oil is best kept for making dressings.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
The question, though, is why are we encouraging (the very inflationary process of) turning cooking oil into renewable diesel, when parts of the world are close to starving?
To return to Luckyguy's point, it seems perverse that we are incentivising farmers to grow crops to burn, rather than to feed, when there might not be enough food to go around.
Biomass needs a whole category of awful just for itself really. Thankfully I think people are realising it is the dirty, shit, cuckoo renewable in the nest.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
rcs1000 - Try this search: "uranium mines + Australia". Or this one: "uranium mines + Canada"
Sure, but the UK buys its Uranium from Russia right now.
It's a similar situation to natural gas. If Russia stops exporting, we (and other people who import from Russia) will need to buy from someone else. We'll all be competing over a smaller amount of exported uranium, and the price will go through the roof.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
Excellent. Thank you.
Olive Oil heated to a high temperature loses much of its health advantage, and the smoke (low smoke point temperarure) is rather toxic.
Something like rapeseed oil is a better option for frying.
No it isn't. Ghee, coconut oil, palm oil, are better options for frying. Rapeseed oil is best kept for making dressings.
My mum used to put olive oil* on herself as a 'sun tan lotion' when sunbathing. She did also smoke a lot at the same time.
I'm not sure whether that adds much to the debate though.
(*Purchased from the chemist, which was the only place to buy olive oil back in the 60s).
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
The question, though, is why are we encouraging (the very inflationary process of) turning cooking oil into renewable diesel, when parts of the world are close to starving?
To return to Luckyguy's point, it seems perverse that we are incentivising farmers to grow crops to burn, rather than to feed, when there might not be enough food to go around.
We could concentrate on food security and on paying people to produce.
And then - in a couple of years time - we can start worrying about butter mountains again.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
rcs1000 - Try this search: "uranium mines + Australia". Or this one: "uranium mines + Canada"
Sure, but the UK buys its Uranium from Russia right now.
It's a similar situation to natural gas. If Russia stops exporting, we (and other people who import from Russia) will need to buy from someone else. We'll all be competing over a smaller amount of exported uranium, and the price will go through the roof.
I always assumed the cost of uranium is only a very small fraction of the total cost of nuclear energy.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
This saloon bar bore is saying it on PB right now, because it happens to be true.
She's lost me - one minute she is the champion of free markets and liberty and the next minute she's telling farmers they have to put sheep in a field rather than make more money by building a solar farm.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
Have I read those numbers right (or has my maths gone down the pan)? £30 per MWh = 3p per kWh.
I would have thought 10p per kWh wholesale would be pretty acceptable right now.
It would be... But if you commit to nuclear you commit to paying £100 (index linked) for two decades. And when the gas starts flowing, you're suddenly paying 3 or 4x the market price of electricity for your nuclear power.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
Excellent. Thank you.
Olive Oil heated to a high temperature loses much of its health advantage, and the smoke (low smoke point temperarure) is rather toxic.
Something like rapeseed oil is a better option for frying.
No it isn't. Ghee, coconut oil, palm oil, are better options for frying. Rapeseed oil is best kept for making dressings.
My mum used to put olive oil* on herself as a 'sun tan lotion' when sunbathing. She did also smoke a lot at the same time.
I'm not sure whether that adds much to the debate though.
(*Purchased from the chemist, which was the only place to buy olive oil back in the 60s).
Doubt the oil was harmful (think Sophia Loren attributes her long lasting good looks to olive oil). Not sure about the tanning and smoking.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
This saloon bar bore is saying it on PB right now, because it happens to be true.
She's lost me - one minute she is the champion of free markets and liberty and the next minute she's telling farmers they have to put sheep in a field rather than make more money by building a solar farm.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
The question, though, is why are we encouraging (the very inflationary process of) turning cooking oil into renewable diesel, when parts of the world are close to starving?
To return to Luckyguy's point, it seems perverse that we are incentivising farmers to grow crops to burn, rather than to feed, when there might not be enough food to go around.
We could concentrate on food security and on paying people to produce.
And then - in a couple of years time - we can start worrying about butter mountains again.
Ban margerine, that will sort the butter mountain.
rcs1000 - Try this search: "uranium mines + Australia". Or this one: "uranium mines + Canada"
Sure, but the UK buys its Uranium from Russia right now.
It's a similar situation to natural gas. If Russia stops exporting, we (and other people who import from Russia) will need to buy from someone else. We'll all be competing over a smaller amount of exported uranium, and the price will go through the roof.
I always assumed the cost of uranium is only a very small fraction of the total cost of nuclear energy.
Right now that is correct. But if you took a large exporter out the market, then prices would spike.
Jane Merrick @janemerrick23 Caught on mic at the end of the hustings, Liz Truss apologised to Tom Newton Dunn for "being mean about the media" (by blaming us for PM's downfall) and Tom replied "it's cheap and you know it". Fair play to him for coming back on that.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
This saloon bar bore is saying it on PB right now, because it happens to be true.
She's lost me - one minute she is the champion of free markets and liberty and the next minute she's telling farmers they have to put sheep in a field rather than make more money by building a solar farm.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
It's about flashpoints and smokepoints, chart to knock yourself out with
Sunflower oil for instance is polyunsaturated but high smoke point
That's interesting, but not the main issue imo. The less saturated a fat is (the oxygen atoms not saturated by hydrogen atoms - I think they're atoms), the more unstable it is, and the more bits are going to break away when heated, becoming free radicals in the body. So sunflower oil is a far more dangerous oil to cook with at high temps than lard. Olive oil is a bit better; it's mono-unsaturated, it is more saturated than sunflower oil, and goes solid if refrigerated for that reason. But still not advisable to fry with it, which is why there is no tradition of frying using olive oil.
SNAP POLL: 45% of Americans say it is a very big problem if Donald Trump took classified material with him to his private residence after leaving office.
Jeez. America, its norms, institutions and democracy is in a very bad place.
Although the encouraging thing there is that barely a quarter of Republicans say it's not a problem at all, so a clear majority concede it is a problem to some degree.
I agree.
Indeed, the polling is really moving against Trump as Republican nominee.
Its amazing how little that fact is noticed. Large sections of the party are moving to stop him running, despite the public statements. They are letting him be chipped away at in the hope he's much reduced over the next 12 months.
The search wont become clear in its impact until we know just what the FBI took away. I assume they had the wit to at least look at contents before removing them. There is still the chance nothing of absolute significance will be found or indeed that something will be worked with the lawyers that Trump wont undergo a formal prosecution.
More dangerous though, Trump has people still on the inside chirping like canaries against him. The bar to take him down is high because no one wants to screw it up, but there is no shortage of attempts because that guy has a lot of skeletons.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
This saloon bar bore is saying it on PB right now, because it happens to be true.
She's lost me - one minute she is the champion of free markets and liberty and the next minute she's telling farmers they have to put sheep in a field rather than make more money by building a solar farm.
So which is it?
Which ever adds value to the view from a nimby window
Chris Skidmore is the guy who co-wrote Brittania Unchained, with Truss, Kwarteng, Patel and Raab.
Only Raab left, of the Britannia unchained nutters.
Regardless of your ideology, it’s a terribly badly written book, btw. I read the first 18 pages via Google (for free - I’m not paying for that shite) and I was struck by how many sentences were like “there is a feeling that” with nothing approaching any evidence for the assertions. It would get torn apart in a first year Oxford seminar.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
Have I read those numbers right (or has my maths gone down the pan)? £30 per MWh = 3p per kWh.
I would have thought 10p per kWh wholesale would be pretty acceptable right now.
It would be... But if you commit to nuclear you commit to paying £100 (index linked) for two decades. And when the gas starts flowing, you're suddenly paying 3 or 4x the market price of electricity for your nuclear power.
How confident are you that the gas will start flowing again in the next 5 years?
We had a village talk last night from a supplier of PV/battery solutions. Batteries look an attractive add-on to PV panels with electricity at >30p per kWh but not so much if the retail price drops back to 15p per kWh.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
It's about flashpoints and smokepoints, chart to knock yourself out with
Sunflower oil for instance is polyunsaturated but high smoke point
That's interesting, but not the main issue imo. The less saturated a fat is (the oxygen atoms not saturated by hydrogen atoms - I think they're atoms), the more unstable it is, and the more bits are going to break away when heated, becoming free radicals in the body. So sunflower oil is a far more dangerous oil to cook with at high temps than lard. Olive oil is a bit better; it's mono-unsaturated, it is more saturated than sunflower oil, and goes solid if refrigerated for that reason. But still not advisable to fry with it, which is why there is no tradition of frying using olive oil.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
Excellent. Thank you.
Olive Oil heated to a high temperature loses much of its health advantage, and the smoke (low smoke point temperarure) is rather toxic.
Something like rapeseed oil is a better option for frying.
No it isn't. Ghee, coconut oil, palm oil, are better options for frying. Rapeseed oil is best kept for making dressings.
My dietician does not agree with you !
Coconut oil has a smoke point at roughly normal frying temperature. All three of those are cholesterol boosters.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
This saloon bar bore is saying it on PB right now, because it happens to be true.
She's lost me - one minute she is the champion of free markets and liberty and the next minute she's telling farmers they have to put sheep in a field rather than make more money by building a solar farm.
So which is it?
The incentives that have lead landowners to build solar farms are anything but an example of free market liberalism. They were built because of subsidy.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
Have I read those numbers right (or has my maths gone down the pan)? £30 per MWh = 3p per kWh.
I would have thought 10p per kWh wholesale would be pretty acceptable right now.
It would be... But if you commit to nuclear you commit to paying £100 (index linked) for two decades. And when the gas starts flowing, you're suddenly paying 3 or 4x the market price of electricity for your nuclear power.
How confident are you that the gas will start flowing again in the next 5 years?
We had a village talk last night from a supplier of PV/battery solutions. Batteries look an attractive add-on to PV panels with electricity at >30p per kWh but not so much if the retail price drops back to 15p per kWh.
Incredibly confident.
The world is full of LNG projects that couldn't get funded because of low gas prices, and the unwillingness of developed world buyers to commit to long term contracts.
Weirdly, in the last few months that has really changed.
"I'm somebody who wants to see farmers producing food." - Truss.
Give me strength. The level of the debate in these hustings is enough to drive one to absinthe.
It's when it's enough to drive you to Truss that you really need to worry
The point is a good deal more profound than you think. Farmers are currently being encouraged to leave the industry, 'rewild', grow biomass, put solar panels up - do almost anything but provide the nourishing food that we need secure supplies of. To the extent that many believe a food crisis is being engineered deliberately.
The same people who believe Ukraine is Russian?
Not really.
I follow a few very patriotic americans on the twitters who think the above is madness, food and fuel security should come above ESG. It's hardly partisan or pro russian to say so.
The problem is that food and fuel security is very expensive.
We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices), (b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and (c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
Have I read those numbers right (or has my maths gone down the pan)? £30 per MWh = 3p per kWh.
I would have thought 10p per kWh wholesale would be pretty acceptable right now.
It would be... But if you commit to nuclear you commit to paying £100 (index linked) for two decades. And when the gas starts flowing, you're suddenly paying 3 or 4x the market price of electricity for your nuclear power.
How confident are you that the gas will start flowing again in the next 5 years?
We had a village talk last night from a supplier of PV/battery solutions. Batteries look an attractive add-on to PV panels with electricity at >30p per kWh but not so much if the retail price drops back to 15p per kWh.
Yes - that's a close call. If we get more tariffs that pay a wholesale electricity rate for exports, that could change for the long term. But we aren't there yet.
There is also quite a wide range of prices in batteries. Tesla is one of the more expensive, and denies the owner control - which is not attractive.
Sunak verging on Sheffield in that intro and his jokes are getting even lamer
At least he has written some new material over the weekend. The parmo schtick will go down well in the North-East but will mystify the rest of the country.
Do we think he would recognise a parmo in an identity parade?
That "our women" grated like fuck last time. Really poor.
They are in Darlington. Do they eat parmo in Darlo?
Haggis I think..
Not to mention clootie dumpling.
As a Scot of working class roots I prefer my clootie dumpling fried. But since I have grown into an effete middle class intellectual (pseudo) I fry it in olive oil, not lard.
Lard is a better frying medium than olive oil imo. As a saturated fat it is more heat stable.
I think that the last thing fried dumpling requires is more saturated fat.
There's no such thing as too much saturated fat.
I love proper fats.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
When I used to live in South Queensferry I saw beef tallow being delivered to the chippy.
Excellent. Thank you.
Olive Oil heated to a high temperature loses much of its health advantage, and the smoke (low smoke point temperarure) is rather toxic.
Something like rapeseed oil is a better option for frying.
No it isn't. Ghee, coconut oil, palm oil, are better options for frying. Rapeseed oil is best kept for making dressings.
My dietician does not agree with you !
Coconut oil has a smoke point at roughly normal frying temperature. All three of those are cholesterol boosters.
Well they're wrong.
As the video posted above rightly states, the smoke point has nothing to do with the temperature at which the oil becomes unstable and starts breaking down into toxic free radicals. The more saturated the fat, the more stable its molecular structure.
Furthermore, the idea of cholesterol being the enemy is antideluvian. But that's probably for another night in the PB saloon bar.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
This saloon bar bore is saying it on PB right now, because it happens to be true.
She's lost me - one minute she is the champion of free markets and liberty and the next minute she's telling farmers they have to put sheep in a field rather than make more money by building a solar farm.
So which is it?
The incentives that have lead landowners to build solar farms are anything but an example of free market liberalism. They were built because of subsidy.
Technically they - like our new nuclear plants - were built because of the willingness of the government to enter into long-term electricity purchase contracts at above market rates.
It is worth noting that, given current electricity prices, this is probably the cheapest electricity the grid is using today.
The Tory party is in an awful mess potentially. Judging by the cheers and shouting the membership worship Johnson and can't understand why he has gone and yet the majority of his cabinet and lower ministers resigned en masse because he was unfit for office.
The stab in the back myth aligned with the king 'o the water is going to poison things for years and Johnson will love stirring the cauldron.
Talking of which:
Liz Truss says she would vote to end the privileges committee investigation into whether the PM misled parliament (if such a vote existed)
Jeez she really is clueless . Even if she could do this it would look shocking to the public that she’s trying to get Johnson off. The more I see of her the more I loathe her .
At least she will purge Woke Lefty language from our primary schools mathematics:
How absolutely extraordinary. She obviously doesn't know the meaning of those words. Or is pretending not to. I don't know which is worse.
Edit: I had to go back and look again. But it does seem to be her account, not a parody one.
Some twenty odd years ago I thought a tutorial student was taking the piss when using 'times' as a verb instead of 'multiply'. As in "you times a with b to get c". Regrettably, that seems to be the language used in schools nowadays.
In their defence, they do get taught ‘times’ tables.
So was I in the 1940s. And they went up to 12!
Nevertheless, the act of multiplication was described as "times". You said "six times seven is forty two".
But not "timesed by", which is what I've heard kids say. It's the ugly verbing of "times" that is the issue
What's wrong with using times as a verb? It's not just the kids, I've always said it and I am in my forties, but perhaps I'm a bit common.
Well the dictionary lists it primarily as a preposition, and only as an informal verb
I don't think I've ever heard a mathematician say "timesed by"
When teaching maths and physics I would use the term "times" for younger students and weaker students who were working towards grade 4 or C. Any older students with some ability in the subject, I would use multiply, or even product of.
I would use multiply for everyone because everyone is capable of understanding the word and what it means.
I tend to use multiply, but if I had been aware that referring to multiplication as "times" was "woke", I'd have used "times".
One of the downsides of this “long” campaign is that by the time Liz Truss is crowned she’ll feel like old hat already.
It is going to be fascinating i think because she is awful at set piece presentation. God knows what will happen at PMQs.
My hunch is the public will find her manner a total turn off and she will appeal only to exactly the kind of voter who is, erm, actually already a member of the con party.
Combine that with the apparently refusal to see that day one of her administration is not about cutting some mythical brexit red tape and then relabelling all the toilets but dealing with a MASSIVE ENERGY AND COST OF LIVING CRISIS that will bring people out on the streets by year's end.
OT- probably going to Zurich and then St Gallen for a football match next week, weather looks terrible. Anyone have some recommendations for indoors attractions and reasonably inexpensive dining and drinking?
That Crimean airbase probably had about a billion dollars worth of planes parked up on it.
We dont know how many were hit. Its reported there were 30+ aircraft of various types, mainly fast jets, there today. If they did wipe it, Russia simply cant replace that kind of loss in the short term.
She talks utter bollx, but I have to admit it she has an uncanny ability to tap into the stream of utter bollx that the saloon bar bores at the local Con club are saying right now.
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
This saloon bar bore is saying it on PB right now, because it happens to be true.
She's lost me - one minute she is the champion of free markets and liberty and the next minute she's telling farmers they have to put sheep in a field rather than make more money by building a solar farm.
So which is it?
The incentives that have lead landowners to build solar farms are anything but an example of free market liberalism. They were built because of subsidy.
Technically they - like our new nuclear plants - were built because of the willingness of the government to enter into long-term electricity purchase contracts at above market rates.
It is worth noting that, given current electricity prices, this is probably the cheapest electricity the grid is using today.
The one scheme I'm aware of irl was build by the landowner concerned using weak solar panels because the scheme paid out better the less you fed in. The whole thing was utterly bonkers.
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Or is she just saying this to curry favour with the members until she dumps on them in Sept?
Better?
I imagine you'd get terrible piles.
I can’t believe you just said that!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1556616655287058434
https://www.share-talk.com/thames-water-boss-sarah-bentley-on-2m-a-year-gets-727000-windfall/#gs.8qn1ib
I doubt if anyone does, except (perhaps) her. The Tories seem poised to spin the wheel and hope for the best.
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I've personally had a great experience on the NHS everywhere I've been, from shoulder surgery to snow blindness.
Even the GP has finally got their act together - did an econsultation a couple of days ago, phone call an hour later, in the next day for a quick check. And they just want me to email them with a symptom update next week. Brilliant!
Mind you I used a third world medical system last year following a scary insect bite and that was pretty OK as well.
Can anyone tell me of a decent chippie still using beef dripping?
@benrileysmith
NEW: Chris Skidmore has become the first Tory MP to switch sides from Rishi Sunak to Liz Truss.
He writes for
@Telegraph
he grew “increasingly concerned” by Sunak campaign’s “consistently changing position”.
More defections could come later this month."
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1557109835530895360
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We could - undoubtedly - be fuel sufficient in the UK. We could build a bunch of new nuclear* (cost per MWh c. £100), aggressively exploit shale gas via guaranteed purchase contracts (probably around £150 to 200), and keep adding on-shore and off-shore wind (a much more reasonable £30-50/MWh).
But the cost would need to be picked up by someone. Either we would have much higher electricity and gas prices than our peers when supply normalized, or we would have the government writing very large checks to suppliers every year to keep our prices in line.
The right answer - which probably keeps costs at that £30 level in the medium term - is to
(a) be willing to enter into long-term supply contracts with low cost LNG providers (Mozambique or Israel will sell you twenty years of LNG at pretty good prices),
(b) have substantial gas storage facilities (say three to six months of usage), and
(c) to invest in building out tidal, wind, solar and lower cost nuclear options.
Natural gas, in this world, is your battery back up.
* It is of course worth noting that the UK needs to import uranium - which is currently does from, ahem, Russia. So it's not an entirely secure source of energy.
The only thing you should absorb through your eyeballs is vodka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxYZmu3kvdo&ab_channel=RhysIfans
Indeed, the polling is really moving against Trump as Republican nominee.
Taking Tory government up the arse is beneficial.
We haven't just appreciated it yet
Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov
“Drugs are horrific,” says Rishi Sunak.
“There is nothing recreational about them. I have never taken them and I will be incredibly tough on anyone who does.”
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/diesel-for-dinner
To return to Luckyguy's point, it seems perverse that we are incentivising farmers to grow crops to burn, rather than to feed, when there might not be enough food to go around.
Remote places can be worse. A second cousin of mine died of appendicitis in a mining camp in PNG.
Casualty is the path of least resistance, where anyone can and will be seen, at no cost other than waiting, and without a gatekeeper like a GP. As such it will always attract a less salubrious crowd, particularly after dark. Ultimately all systems have good and bad staff.
* any young man should accumulate a few scars to dine out on later in life.
Something like rapeseed oil is a better option for frying.
Or this one: "uranium mines + Canada"
I would have thought 10p per kWh wholesale would be pretty acceptable right now.
I don't like "number timesed by number"
I think it sounds stupid
Keep Brexit safe, cut taxes by printing money, talk culture war bollx, send anyone in a small boat back to africa, let Johnson off the hook for lying to parliament, bring back grammars, cut non-existent red tape and so on and on.
Put above all else: keep the triple lock.
Right up the Express street.
Surely the utility companies have a plan for a load of non-payment, beyond disconnecting and wrecking credit scores.
Adam Bienkov
@AdamBienkov
Liz Truss says she will stop people from “filling fields with paraphernalia like solar farms.”
“What we want is crops, and we want livestock.”
It's a similar situation to natural gas. If Russia stops exporting, we (and other people who import from Russia) will need to buy from someone else. We'll all be competing over a smaller amount of exported uranium, and the price will go through the roof.
I'm not sure whether that adds much to the debate though.
(*Purchased from the chemist, which was the only place to buy olive oil back in the 60s).
And then - in a couple of years time - we can start worrying about butter mountains again.
Just like Johnson.
We have to change in order that everything remains exactly the same.
So which is it?
@janemerrick23
Caught on mic at the end of the hustings, Liz Truss apologised to Tom Newton Dunn for "being mean about the media" (by blaming us for PM's downfall) and Tom replied "it's cheap and you know it". Fair play to him for coming back on that.
The search wont become clear in its impact until we know just what the FBI took away. I assume they had the wit to at least look at contents before removing them. There is still the chance nothing of absolute significance will be found or indeed that something will be worked with the lawyers that Trump wont undergo a formal prosecution.
More dangerous though, Trump has people still on the inside chirping like canaries against him. The bar to take him down is high because no one wants to screw it up, but there is no shortage of attempts because that guy has a lot of skeletons.
Only Raab left, of the Britannia unchained nutters.
Regardless of your ideology, it’s a terribly badly written book, btw. I read the first 18 pages via Google (for free - I’m not paying for that shite) and I was struck by how many sentences were like “there is a feeling that” with nothing approaching any evidence for the assertions. It would get torn apart in a first year Oxford seminar.
We had a village talk last night from a supplier of PV/battery solutions. Batteries look an attractive add-on to PV panels with electricity at >30p per kWh but not so much if the retail price drops back to 15p per kWh.
Coconut oil has a smoke point at roughly normal frying temperature. All three of those are cholesterol boosters.
The world is full of LNG projects that couldn't get funded because of low gas prices, and the unwillingness of developed world buyers to commit to long term contracts.
Weirdly, in the last few months that has really changed.
@Samfr
Yeah I'm still not seeing why people think she's good at this.
https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1557077025210667008
There is also quite a wide range of prices in batteries. Tesla is one of the more expensive, and denies the owner control - which is not attractive.
As the video posted above rightly states, the smoke point has nothing to do with the temperature at which the oil becomes unstable and starts breaking down into toxic free radicals. The more saturated the fat, the more stable its molecular structure.
Furthermore, the idea of cholesterol being the enemy is antideluvian. But that's probably for another night in the PB saloon bar.
It is worth noting that, given current electricity prices, this is probably the cheapest electricity the grid is using today.
My hunch is the public will find her manner a total turn off and she will appeal only to exactly the kind of voter who is, erm, actually already a member of the con party.
Combine that with the apparently refusal to see that day one of her administration is not about cutting some mythical brexit red tape and then relabelling all the toilets but dealing with a MASSIVE ENERGY AND COST OF LIVING CRISIS that will bring people out on the streets by year's end.