In terms of major population centres the UK is relatively tiny. High speed trains make no sense. It’s like building a high speed walkway from my bed to my laptop, which is 3 metres away
It’s all over engineered and it was all done for vanity
If they'd had this attitude in the 19th century we wouldn't have built any railways in Britain.
No, it just doesn’t make sense
I’d build Heathrow’s new runway tomorrow. And crossrail 2. But highly expensive ultra fast trains are simply dumb in a small densely populated country like England
We don’t need them. It’s like trying to make Tube trains go in the air at vast expense. What’s the frigging point?
The Shinkansen transformed Japanese transportation in an almost equally small and even more densely populated country. Of course they didn’t have the same NIMBY issues we do but the engineering challenges were at least as great.
Shinkansen literally means “new mainline” and it was built entirely to create extra capacity by taking the express trains off the lines used by stoppers and freight. I assume they decided they might as well make them super fast if they were building a whole new line. They are also just incredibly efficient if a little no frills. In they roll, stop for a few seconds, everyone gets on, off they go again and 2 hours later you’re in Osaka.
I suspect the problem as with all infrastructure is that we should have built HS2, and 3 and 4, decades ago. I’m also sure it’s better to get on with building now than doing it another decade later.
We could do with a bit of latency in our infrastructure. We always build just as we’re about to burst.
But this is shite
Tokyo-Hiroshima (about half the length of Japan) is 800km
London-Manchester is 262km
It’s ridiculous. We don’t need ultra high speed trains because quite fast trains get anyone wherever they need perfectly fine. England is small. This is an advantage. Instead the geeky trainspotter twats have tried to foist upon us, at vast expense, a train system which is ideal for vast continental countries. Not England
I’ve never been sold on the speed of the thing. Manchester or Leeds to London isn’t an intolerable travel time as it is. If they’d been connecting it to Edinburgh and Glasgow, sure, maybe you can argue greater benefit.
But capacity is the key driver here. There would likely have been cheaper options to boost capacity at pinch points though. Which would have been more sensible.
Such as?
Double decker trains?
That would be even more expensive and slower than building HS2 given our loading gauge.
Any resemblance to Mr D. Davis MP's double-decker leadership publicity is purely accidental.
And that design could be improved even more by the floors being dropped lower than the top of the wheels, like the Australian two storey trains. So you could almost get 2 floors.
Don't the Australian double decker trains run on broad gauges, which enables it to dip below (between) the wheels? The UK's gauge of 1,435mm doesn't really allow that.
It's 4ft 8 1/2 inches, old boy, and that's standard gauge which is by far the most widespread gauge, worldwide.
Double-decker trains are more common in Europe and are perfectly possible with standard gauge.
The issue is it requires higher clearances, they can't go massively fast, due to the dynamic envelope, and the dwell time at each station is longer as people need to load/unload from the upper deck too.
Never seen so much snowfall. Normally clear passage is now limited by branches bowing beneath the weight. Both side and front gates were laden with it and frozen shut. Couldn't see clearly where the path ended and the garden began.
Never seen so much snowfall. Normally clear passage is now limited by branches bowing beneath the weight. Both side and front gates were laden with it and frozen shut. Couldn't see clearly where the path ended and the garden began.
It's just very wet here near Cambridge. We had some lying snow yesterday, just enough to play in. But no snow this morning.
In terms of major population centres the UK is relatively tiny. High speed trains make no sense. It’s like building a high speed walkway from my bed to my laptop, which is 3 metres away
It’s all over engineered and it was all done for vanity
If they'd had this attitude in the 19th century we wouldn't have built any railways in Britain.
No, it just doesn’t make sense
I’d build Heathrow’s new runway tomorrow. And crossrail 2. But highly expensive ultra fast trains are simply dumb in a small densely populated country like England
We don’t need them. It’s like trying to make Tube trains go in the air at vast expense. What’s the frigging point?
The Shinkansen transformed Japanese transportation in an almost equally small and even more densely populated country. Of course they didn’t have the same NIMBY issues we do but the engineering challenges were at least as great.
Shinkansen literally means “new mainline” and it was built entirely to create extra capacity by taking the express trains off the lines used by stoppers and freight. I assume they decided they might as well make them super fast if they were building a whole new line. They are also just incredibly efficient if a little no frills. In they roll, stop for a few seconds, everyone gets on, off they go again and 2 hours later you’re in Osaka.
I suspect the problem as with all infrastructure is that we should have built HS2, and 3 and 4, decades ago. I’m also sure it’s better to get on with building now than doing it another decade later.
We could do with a bit of latency in our infrastructure. We always build just as we’re about to burst.
But this is shite
Tokyo-Hiroshima (about half the length of Japan) is 800km
London-Manchester is 262km
It’s ridiculous. We don’t need ultra high speed trains because quite fast trains get anyone wherever they need perfectly fine. England is small. This is an advantage. Instead the geeky trainspotter twats have tried to foist upon us, at vast expense, a train system which is ideal for vast continental countries. Not England
I’ve never been sold on the speed of the thing. Manchester or Leeds to London isn’t an intolerable travel time as it is. If they’d been connecting it to Edinburgh and Glasgow, sure, maybe you can argue greater benefit.
But capacity is the key driver here. There would likely have been cheaper options to boost capacity at pinch points though. Which would have been more sensible.
Such as?
Double decker trains?
That would be even more expensive and slower than building HS2 given our loading gauge.
Any resemblance to Mr D. Davis MP's double-decker leadership publicity is purely accidental.
And that design could be improved even more by the floors being dropped lower than the top of the wheels, like the Australian two storey trains. So you could almost get 2 floors.
Don't the Australian double decker trains run on broad gauges, which enables it to dip below (between) the wheels? The UK's gauge of 1,435mm doesn't really allow that.
It's 4ft 8 1/2 inches, old boy, and that's standard gauge which is by far the most widespread gauge, worldwide.
Double-decker trains are more common in Europe and are perfectly possible with standard gauge.
The issue is it requires higher clearances, they can't go massively fast, due to the dynamic envelope, and the dwell time at each station is longer as people need to load/unload from the upper deck too.
The loading gauge is critical. And ours was somewhat restricted by two factors: we were early to railways, when locos and rolling stock were smaller; and a less restrictive loading gauge requires more expensive structures.
If we had started building railways ten or twenty years later, with none of the 'history' of plateways/tramways, we might have had a less restrictive loading gauge. As it is, it only needed allow the small locos of the 1830s plus chaldrons or small passenger wagons through.
Also, because of our population density, more structures were often required than our continental friends - and that meant more cost for a larger loading gauge.
Interesting “Merryn talks money” podcast episode with Niall Ferguson on: what if we’re in a new Cold War? And what does that mean for finance/economics;
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
Mr. Doethur, marvellous. I fully expect the two main roads into Leeds to be cut off, as they were during the 2007 floods.
On checking very carefully in your area it might be thawed by around noon on Sunday, rather than tomorrow. However, since more snow is forecast for tomorrow as well…
Great. Power just went out. Came back, as you may've guessed, but now the central heating won't come on despite the boiler and thermostat box thing seeming to be fine...
Off topic, but important: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a concussion from a fall. A concussion can be serious at any age, but is especially worrisome in someone his age, 81.
'Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is being treated for a concussion after falling Wednesday evening and is expected to remain hospitalized “for a few days,” a spokesperson announced Thursday afternoon.
Recently, I have been speculating that McConnell was not planing to run for re-election in 2028. But I have seen no evidence for, or against, that theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell
(Sadly, we can expect conspiracy theorists to speculate that he was pushed -- and he is hated by Trumpistas, and by pro-abortion fanatics.)
Who are the "pro-abortion fanatics"? I am aware of pro-choice individuals, but nobody campaigning for forced abortions. There are some campaigning - and legislating - for forced births.
Without being a mind-reader, my guess is that Jim is referring to activists & politicos who make pro-choice on abortion an absolute litmus test of ideological purity, and political orthodoxy esp. of course for Democrats.
Possibly. But this was about those who might (semi) plausibly resort to violence. Including them in that is to resort to the favoured Republican ‘both sides’ rhetorical stance.
Looks like we’ve been importing a shit ton of gold in the last seven months.
Or is that exporting?
I don’t recall reading anything in the FT/Bloomberg about this.
Have I got the wrong end of the stick?
Hmm. I suspect this is actually just a reflection of the gold/precious metal price, rather than physical gold etc being shipped into/out of the country.
Since the media don't seem to be reporting it much, here's a report about the Post Office Horizon scandal.
"IT worker evidence reveals a toxic Post Office IT helpdesk that discriminated against subpostmasters IT worker tells public inquiry that the Post Office Horizon helpdesk was toxic, rudderless and racist"
Never seen so much snowfall. Normally clear passage is now limited by branches bowing beneath the weight. Both side and front gates were laden with it and frozen shut. Couldn't see clearly where the path ended and the garden began.
Just a bit drizzly here, and not even really cold - 5 C currently. Although windy conditions are forecast for this morning when it will probably feel colder.
I have to admit this thought occurred to me when someone suggested the Tories taking on David Attenborough next as being a stupid idea (which it very much would be), due to comments he's made about the industrial revolution - whilst he may have thought through the implications of that, I do think it has an image problem which doesn't consider the good points.
Err not sure these two things are the same. The first counts as pure environmental degradation, the second was costly but had the upside of by far the biggest increase in human welfare in history.
Unfair to pick on this otherwise interesting post but it's a mistake that comes up surprisingly often. What do people think life would be like if we hadn't burnt fossil fuels? Like it is now, just no climate crisis? https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1633845495595671552/photo/1
We’d have chopped down all the forests, and burned them for energy.
People who wish the Industrial Revolution had never happened seem to imagine themselves living like lords, rather than like peasants.
I don't think that's the error. I think they just don't know history and don't have much understanding of pre-industrial life. They have a vision of Hobbits in the Shire.
I think that’s right. And the Shire was rural Warwickshire in the 1890’s, rather than a medieval society.
A pre-industrial world is one where starvation is a reality when the crops fail; most children don’t reach adulthood; most homes are damp and insanitary; people die of infections and illnesses that are easily treated today; violent crime is rife; competition for resources is fierce, and the class system is brutal.
The first designs for wind turbines to generate electricity were when? Late 19th century, early 20th century? A lot of early cars were electric-powered.
It's possible to imagine an early transition away from fossil fuels, and to more sustainable ways of generating and using energy, if research and investment had been directed taking account of environmental damage, and not simply purely on the grounds of short-term profit.
You could have had the industrial revolution, but managed to avoid most of the 20th century burning of fossil fuels.
Surely you don't believe this garbage?
It's not garbage.
Human ingenuity and technological development is capable of amazing things, but to a great extent it reacts to incentives and necessity.
There is not only one path of technological development that was possible. Different directions could have been taken.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Looks like we’ve been importing a shit ton of gold in the last seven months.
Or is that exporting?
I don’t recall reading anything in the FT/Bloomberg about this.
Have I got the wrong end of the stick?
Interesting that they apportion some of the growth to private healthcare.
This is the thing: health spending, whether private or public, just has to go up as a %age of GDP.
The private sector is picking up that demand, but I'd rather it was it was in the public sector so we don't get even more health inequalities.
After my 3rd NHS cancellation I’m going private next month - I’m in the fortunate position of being able to - and it’s one fewer for the NHS to have to do.
On GDP Stats one of the things that emerged during COVID was how different countries measure health care differently. In Spain, (IIRC) they measure inputs - salaries - so during the pandemic their health service boomed and productivity soared all contributing to GDP. In the U.K. on the other hand we measure outputs - operations and so on - which fell substantially - dragging down GDP. As the NHS catches up on the operations backlog that will contribute to GDP.
In terms of major population centres the UK is relatively tiny. High speed trains make no sense. It’s like building a high speed walkway from my bed to my laptop, which is 3 metres away
It’s all over engineered and it was all done for vanity
If they'd had this attitude in the 19th century we wouldn't have built any railways in Britain.
No, it just doesn’t make sense
I’d build Heathrow’s new runway tomorrow. And crossrail 2. But highly expensive ultra fast trains are simply dumb in a small densely populated country like England
We don’t need them. It’s like trying to make Tube trains go in the air at vast expense. What’s the frigging point?
The Shinkansen transformed Japanese transportation in an almost equally small and even more densely populated country. Of course they didn’t have the same NIMBY issues we do but the engineering challenges were at least as great.
Shinkansen literally means “new mainline” and it was built entirely to create extra capacity by taking the express trains off the lines used by stoppers and freight. I assume they decided they might as well make them super fast if they were building a whole new line. They are also just incredibly efficient if a little no frills. In they roll, stop for a few seconds, everyone gets on, off they go again and 2 hours later you’re in Osaka.
I suspect the problem as with all infrastructure is that we should have built HS2, and 3 and 4, decades ago. I’m also sure it’s better to get on with building now than doing it another decade later.
We could do with a bit of latency in our infrastructure. We always build just as we’re about to burst.
But this is shite
Tokyo-Hiroshima (about half the length of Japan) is 800km
London-Manchester is 262km
It’s ridiculous. We don’t need ultra high speed trains because quite fast trains get anyone wherever they need perfectly fine. England is small. This is an advantage. Instead the geeky trainspotter twats have tried to foist upon us, at vast expense, a train system which is ideal for vast continental countries. Not England
I’ve never been sold on the speed of the thing. Manchester or Leeds to London isn’t an intolerable travel time as it is. If they’d been connecting it to Edinburgh and Glasgow, sure, maybe you can argue greater benefit.
But capacity is the key driver here. There would likely have been cheaper options to boost capacity at pinch points though. Which would have been more sensible.
Such as?
Double decker trains?
That would be even more expensive and slower than building HS2 given our loading gauge.
Any resemblance to Mr D. Davis MP's double-decker leadership publicity is purely accidental.
And that design could be improved even more by the floors being dropped lower than the top of the wheels, like the Australian two storey trains. So you could almost get 2 floors.
Don't the Australian double decker trains run on broad gauges, which enables it to dip below (between) the wheels? The UK's gauge of 1,435mm doesn't really allow that.
It's 4ft 8 1/2 inches, old boy, and that's standard gauge which is by far the most widespread gauge, worldwide.
Double-decker trains are more common in Europe and are perfectly possible with standard gauge.
The issue is it requires higher clearances, they can't go massively fast, due to the dynamic envelope, and the dwell time at each station is longer as people need to load/unload from the upper deck too.
Double-decker platforms would help with the dwell time, but requires even more rebuilding of existing infrastructure.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
I have to admit this thought occurred to me when someone suggested the Tories taking on David Attenborough next as being a stupid idea (which it very much would be), due to comments he's made about the industrial revolution - whilst he may have thought through the implications of that, I do think it has an image problem which doesn't consider the good points.
Err not sure these two things are the same. The first counts as pure environmental degradation, the second was costly but had the upside of by far the biggest increase in human welfare in history.
Unfair to pick on this otherwise interesting post but it's a mistake that comes up surprisingly often. What do people think life would be like if we hadn't burnt fossil fuels? Like it is now, just no climate crisis? https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1633845495595671552/photo/1
We’d have chopped down all the forests, and burned them for energy.
People who wish the Industrial Revolution had never happened seem to imagine themselves living like lords, rather than like peasants.
I don't think that's the error. I think they just don't know history and don't have much understanding of pre-industrial life. They have a vision of Hobbits in the Shire.
I think that’s right. And the Shire was rural Warwickshire in the 1890’s, rather than a medieval society.
A pre-industrial world is one where starvation is a reality when the crops fail; most children don’t reach adulthood; most homes are damp and insanitary; people die of infections and illnesses that are easily treated today; violent crime is rife; competition for resources is fierce, and the class system is brutal.
The first designs for wind turbines to generate electricity were when? Late 19th century, early 20th century? A lot of early cars were electric-powered.
It's possible to imagine an early transition away from fossil fuels, and to more sustainable ways of generating and using energy, if research and investment had been directed taking account of environmental damage, and not simply purely on the grounds of short-term profit.
You could have had the industrial revolution, but managed to avoid most of the 20th century burning of fossil fuels.
Surely you don't believe this garbage?
It's not garbage.
Human ingenuity and technological development is capable of amazing things, but to a great extent it reacts to incentives and necessity.
There is not only one path of technological development that was possible. Different directions could have been taken.
We might realistically have made a major change in direction in the 1970s, when both the knowledge about global warming and the growing economic practicality of developing renewable technologies could have justified making the huge investments necessary, That might have avoided some of the consequences which are now already inevitable. It would have required broad societal consensus, though.
Any earlier than that is economically implausible, I think.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
What does equity mean in this context? I don't understand.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
M62 traffic: Heavy snow causes traffic chaos as drivers move just 15 miles in six hours
There are delays of around three hours on the M62 in Yorkshire due to heavy snow – although some drivers have reported being stuck for around six hours.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
What does equity mean in this context? I don't understand.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
What does equity mean in this context? I don't understand.
They don't seem to be the sorts of things that could happen again in February to keep growth going, but it's often the case that there are odd one-off effects in one direction or the other that you can point to. Perhaps February will have seen particularly strong sales of domestic vegetables that will boost the GDP figures?
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
What does equity mean in this context? I don't understand.
I have to admit this thought occurred to me when someone suggested the Tories taking on David Attenborough next as being a stupid idea (which it very much would be), due to comments he's made about the industrial revolution - whilst he may have thought through the implications of that, I do think it has an image problem which doesn't consider the good points.
Err not sure these two things are the same. The first counts as pure environmental degradation, the second was costly but had the upside of by far the biggest increase in human welfare in history.
Unfair to pick on this otherwise interesting post but it's a mistake that comes up surprisingly often. What do people think life would be like if we hadn't burnt fossil fuels? Like it is now, just no climate crisis? https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1633845495595671552/photo/1
We’d have chopped down all the forests, and burned them for energy.
People who wish the Industrial Revolution had never happened seem to imagine themselves living like lords, rather than like peasants.
I don't think that's the error. I think they just don't know history and don't have much understanding of pre-industrial life. They have a vision of Hobbits in the Shire.
I think that’s right. And the Shire was rural Warwickshire in the 1890’s, rather than a medieval society.
A pre-industrial world is one where starvation is a reality when the crops fail; most children don’t reach adulthood; most homes are damp and insanitary; people die of infections and illnesses that are easily treated today; violent crime is rife; competition for resources is fierce, and the class system is brutal.
The first designs for wind turbines to generate electricity were when? Late 19th century, early 20th century? A lot of early cars were electric-powered.
It's possible to imagine an early transition away from fossil fuels, and to more sustainable ways of generating and using energy, if research and investment had been directed taking account of environmental damage, and not simply purely on the grounds of short-term profit.
You could have had the industrial revolution, but managed to avoid most of the 20th century burning of fossil fuels.
Surely you don't believe this garbage?
It's not garbage.
Human ingenuity and technological development is capable of amazing things, but to a great extent it reacts to incentives and necessity.
There is not only one path of technological development that was possible. Different directions could have been taken.
It could, but it's very unlikely. Yes, electric vehicles were common in the late 1800s and early 1900s - where 'common' means uncommon, but common in relation to ICE cars.
But the problem is that the electric tech at the time just could not compete with ICE, once ICE development really got going. It's hard for electric cars to compete nowadays, with massive amounts of electronics and very (relatively) efficient motors.
Then there's power generation. Yes, the first electrical appliances (e.g. Armstrong's gaff) were hydro powered. But again, these were small-scale.
The truth is we required massive amounts of energy to develop our tech to the state where we can now develop competitive widespread green energy. In the world you envision, we might have very sparse power capabilities, and we would be stuck at late 1800s tech level, with a lucky few having electricity.
And meanwhile, factories will be belching out smoke, steam trains would be blackening the sky, gas streetlights, and all the advantages electricity gives us would be for naught.
Basically; I think we needed widespread, cheap 'dirty' power to build the tech we need to move into a greener future.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
M62 traffic: Heavy snow causes traffic chaos as drivers move just 15 miles in six hours
There are delays of around three hours on the M62 in Yorkshire due to heavy snow – although some drivers have reported being stuck for around six hours.
Don't they have ploughs? I drove the Aberdeen bypass on Tuesday morning and passed half a dozen ploughs which were clearing lane 2 on both carriageways.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
You are so obsessed that you become entirely incapable of reading one simple sentence.
Off to Bala later today, where it’s supposedly going to drop as low as -8°, though I’m not sure I believe it - meteorologists share the same fetish for pronouncing grim outlooks that some medical professionals do.
It’s a poker weekend (wish me luck, I’ll need it) supposedly interspersed with hiking, but I’ve about as much interest in scaling Cader Idris in this weather as Boris has in constituency casework. Beer, book and log fire seems more appealing.
So Raab is safe as his mate, rule breaking Rishi will save him, it is the Priti Patel bullying stuff all over again.
Rishi Sunak will determine whether Dominic Raab bullied officials because the formal investigation into his conduct will not express an opinion about his behaviour, The Times has been told.
Adam Tolley KC was appointed by the prime minister in November to investigate formal complaints made by civil servants about the justice secretary’s behaviour.
Alleged victims of Raab, the deputy prime minister, have been told that Tolley will only seek to establish the facts surrounding allegations of bullying in three government departments. He will not give a “subjective” opinion on whether the events that he outlines in his report, which is expected to be published later this month, amount to bullying.
A Whitehall source said that Sunak would be the “arbiter” of whether the actions of Raab, one of his closest allies, constitute bullying.
Raab is said to be facing at least 24 complaints from civil servants who have worked with him across three government departments.
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
The limited extra cost of the additional speed made it a worthwhile addition but the problem was that it's been sold on the speed and journey times not on the additional capacity it provides...
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
You are so obsessed that you become entirely incapable of reading one simple sentence.
And once again, for our slow learning German friend
I have to admit this thought occurred to me when someone suggested the Tories taking on David Attenborough next as being a stupid idea (which it very much would be), due to comments he's made about the industrial revolution - whilst he may have thought through the implications of that, I do think it has an image problem which doesn't consider the good points.
Err not sure these two things are the same. The first counts as pure environmental degradation, the second was costly but had the upside of by far the biggest increase in human welfare in history.
Unfair to pick on this otherwise interesting post but it's a mistake that comes up surprisingly often. What do people think life would be like if we hadn't burnt fossil fuels? Like it is now, just no climate crisis? https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1633845495595671552/photo/1
We’d have chopped down all the forests, and burned them for energy.
People who wish the Industrial Revolution had never happened seem to imagine themselves living like lords, rather than like peasants.
I don't think that's the error. I think they just don't know history and don't have much understanding of pre-industrial life. They have a vision of Hobbits in the Shire.
I think that’s right. And the Shire was rural Warwickshire in the 1890’s, rather than a medieval society.
A pre-industrial world is one where starvation is a reality when the crops fail; most children don’t reach adulthood; most homes are damp and insanitary; people die of infections and illnesses that are easily treated today; violent crime is rife; competition for resources is fierce, and the class system is brutal.
The first designs for wind turbines to generate electricity were when? Late 19th century, early 20th century? A lot of early cars were electric-powered.
It's possible to imagine an early transition away from fossil fuels, and to more sustainable ways of generating and using energy, if research and investment had been directed taking account of environmental damage, and not simply purely on the grounds of short-term profit.
You could have had the industrial revolution, but managed to avoid most of the 20th century burning of fossil fuels.
Surely you don't believe this garbage?
It's not garbage.
Human ingenuity and technological development is capable of amazing things, but to a great extent it reacts to incentives and necessity.
There is not only one path of technological development that was possible. Different directions could have been taken.
It could, but it's very unlikely. Yes, electric vehicles were common in the late 1800s and early 1900s - where 'common' means uncommon, but common in relation to ICE cars.
But the problem is that the electric tech at the time just could not compete with ICE, once ICE development really got going. It's hard for electric cars to compete nowadays, with massive amounts of electronics and very (relatively) efficient motors.
Then there's power generation. Yes, the first electrical appliances (e.g. Armstrong's gaff) were hydro powered. But again, these were small-scale.
The truth is we required massive amounts of energy to develop our tech to the state where we can now develop competitive widespread green energy. In the world you envision, we might have very sparse power capabilities, and we would be stuck at late 1800s tech level, with a lucky few having electricity.
And meanwhile, factories will be belching out smoke, steam trains would be blackening the sky, gas streetlights, and all the advantages electricity gives us would be for naught.
Basically; I think we needed widespread, cheap 'dirty' power to build the tech we need to move into a greener future.
I’m a Green, and I agree. It just should have started a long time ago. Also why I believe in an interventionist state.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted, which seems to have got you both confused and excited. Use your brain.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
You have just literally posted a picture of what William Glenn posted. Maybe you are the moron here.
Off to Bala later today, where it’s supposedly going to drop as low as -8°, though I’m not sure I believe it - meteorologists share the same fetish for pronouncing grim outlooks that some medical professionals do.
It’s a poker weekend (wish me luck, I’ll need it) supposedly interspersed with hiking, but I’ve about as much interest in scaling Cader Idris in this weather as Boris has in constituency casework. Beer, book and log fire seems more appealing.
Bala must be quite spectacular in this weather. The lake and the hills should be stunning.
But I wouldn't advise Cadair, particularly not the steep trails up from Llyn Cae.
A City lawyer told a teenage female assistant that he wanted to have sex with her in front of their colleagues and sent her links to pornography including nude images of a Love Island star, a tribunal was told.
Oliver Bretherton, who had a senior position at an Anglo-Canadian firm, is also accused of asking the 18-year-old to masturbate in front of him and of having sent her a video of himself performing a solo sex act.
Bretherton, 41, admitted sending the woman pornography, including leaked images “relating to” Megan Barton-Hanson, who appeared on ITV’s Love Island in 2018, but denied doing so on many occasions.
Lawyers for the profession’s regulator have told the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal that Bretherton, a married banking and finance specialist, recruited the woman about five years ago, just after she had finished her A-levels.
Nimi Bruce, who appeared for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, told the tribunal that Bretherton said to the woman that he wanted to “f*** her and he would do it in the office and he didn’t care if there was a glass wall”, according to a report of the hearing in The Law Society Gazette.
At the time, Bretherton was 36 and a lawyer at Gowling WLG, a large international practice based in the City and in Ottawa.
Prosecuting lawyers added that Bretherton monitored the amount of time the woman spent in the lavatory and once threw ping-pong balls down her dress. He is alleged to have conducted a campaign of harassment against the woman, who has been referred to only as Person A, for more than a year.
Allegations of harassment have also been made by two other women against the lawyer.
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
The limited extra cost of the additional speed made it a worthwhile addition but the problem was that it's been sold on the speed and journey times not on the additional capacity it provides...
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
You are so obsessed that you become entirely incapable of reading one simple sentence.
And once again, for our slow learning German friend
Maybe calm down and slowly read what was actually posted.
M62 traffic: Heavy snow causes traffic chaos as drivers move just 15 miles in six hours
There are delays of around three hours on the M62 in Yorkshire due to heavy snow – although some drivers have reported being stuck for around six hours.
I thought at 10pm we might get away with it, as the road was just a bit slushy, but we got the 8 inches of snow overnight. The secondary went back online yesterday morning, the primary had lunchtime collection after a short burst of snow dumped a couple of inches that then melted off the tarmac in the afternoon.
I absolutely wouldn't have chanced M62 Windy Hill though given the forecast. I've done that when they put about 3 dozen gritters out and they work in formations of 3 or 4 and the cars follow them. You know at the point those gritters lose its already really bad and you're not going to going anywhere in a hurry.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
A City lawyer told a teenage female assistant that he wanted to have sex with her in front of their colleagues and sent her links to pornography including nude images of a Love Island star, a tribunal was told.
Oliver Bretherton, who had a senior position at an Anglo-Canadian firm, is also accused of asking the 18-year-old to masturbate in front of him and of having sent her a video of himself performing a solo sex act.
Bretherton, 41, admitted sending the woman pornography, including leaked images “relating to” Megan Barton-Hanson, who appeared on ITV’s Love Island in 2018, but denied doing so on many occasions.
Lawyers for the profession’s regulator have told the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal that Bretherton, a married banking and finance specialist, recruited the woman about five years ago, just after she had finished her A-levels.
Nimi Bruce, who appeared for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, told the tribunal that Bretherton said to the woman that he wanted to “f*** her and he would do it in the office and he didn’t care if there was a glass wall”, according to a report of the hearing in The Law Society Gazette.
At the time, Bretherton was 36 and a lawyer at Gowling WLG, a large international practice based in the City and in Ottawa.
Prosecuting lawyers added that Bretherton monitored the amount of time the woman spent in the lavatory and once threw ping-pong balls down her dress. He is alleged to have conducted a campaign of harassment against the woman, who has been referred to only as Person A, for more than a year.
Allegations of harassment have also been made by two other women against the lawyer.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
A City lawyer told a teenage female assistant that he wanted to have sex with her in front of their colleagues and sent her links to pornography including nude images of a Love Island star, a tribunal was told.
Oliver Bretherton, who had a senior position at an Anglo-Canadian firm, is also accused of asking the 18-year-old to masturbate in front of him and of having sent her a video of himself performing a solo sex act.
Bretherton, 41, admitted sending the woman pornography, including leaked images “relating to” Megan Barton-Hanson, who appeared on ITV’s Love Island in 2018, but denied doing so on many occasions.
Lawyers for the profession’s regulator have told the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal that Bretherton, a married banking and finance specialist, recruited the woman about five years ago, just after she had finished her A-levels.
Nimi Bruce, who appeared for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, told the tribunal that Bretherton said to the woman that he wanted to “f*** her and he would do it in the office and he didn’t care if there was a glass wall”, according to a report of the hearing in The Law Society Gazette.
At the time, Bretherton was 36 and a lawyer at Gowling WLG, a large international practice based in the City and in Ottawa.
Prosecuting lawyers added that Bretherton monitored the amount of time the woman spent in the lavatory and once threw ping-pong balls down her dress. He is alleged to have conducted a campaign of harassment against the woman, who has been referred to only as Person A, for more than a year.
Allegations of harassment have also been made by two other women against the lawyer.
Off to Bala later today, where it’s supposedly going to drop as low as -8°, though I’m not sure I believe it - meteorologists share the same fetish for pronouncing grim outlooks that some medical professionals do.
It’s a poker weekend (wish me luck, I’ll need it) supposedly interspersed with hiking, but I’ve about as much interest in scaling Cader Idris in this weather as Boris has in constituency casework. Beer, book and log fire seems more appealing.
Bala must be quite spectacular in this weather. The lake and the hills should be stunning.
But I wouldn't advise Cadair, particularly not the steep trails up from Llyn Cae.
I want to walk round the lake, at least. One of my favourite novels, Austerlitz, is set in part around Bala.
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
The limited extra cost of the additional speed made it a worthwhile addition but the problem was that it's been sold on the speed and journey times not on the additional capacity it provides...
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
M62 traffic: Heavy snow causes traffic chaos as drivers move just 15 miles in six hours
There are delays of around three hours on the M62 in Yorkshire due to heavy snow – although some drivers have reported being stuck for around six hours.
I thought at 10pm we might get away with it, as the road was just a bit slushy, but we got the 8 inches of snow overnight. The secondary went back online yesterday morning, the primary had lunchtime collection after a short burst of snow dumped a couple of inches that then melted off the tarmac in the afternoon.
I absolutely wouldn't have chanced M62 Windy Hill though given the forecast. I've done that when they put about 3 dozen gritters out and they work in formations of 3 or 4 and the cars follow them. You know at the point those gritters lose its already really bad and you're not going to going anywhere in a hurry.
I could see Rakewood Viaduct out of my bedroom window growing up, and much closer by the A58 which was the only cross-pennine route that would stay open* when things got really bad.
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
The limited extra cost of the additional speed made it a worthwhile addition but the problem was that it's been sold on the speed and journey times not on the additional capacity it provides...
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
There's sum useless bastards involved.
When it comes to numbers used to support huge public sector civil engineering projects, the Treasury's default position should be to point and laugh.
"Double all your costs and then come back. So we can laugh at you some more. Now fuck off...."
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
Leon's not very bright.
Remember when he dribbled about Russia launching nukes last autumn.
Or spammed PB for months about how what.three.words would change the world, and only thick PBers couldn't see its potential.
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
The limited extra cost of the additional speed made it a worthwhile addition but the problem was that it's been sold on the speed and journey times not on the additional capacity it provides...
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
There's sum useless bastards involved.
Incompetence on a math scale.
Their actions are a sin we need reform of the Civil Service, cos they are clueless.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
I believe the obsession is American in origin. Hence the initiating comment from @williamglenn
Americans have turned a known class issue - poor people living in the more polluted areas of cities (usually in the east in the northern hemisphere) into an issue of race. Yet again
The phenomenon of poorer eastern neighbourhoods goes back centuries and is ubiquitous
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
The limited extra cost of the additional speed made it a worthwhile addition but the problem was that it's been sold on the speed and journey times not on the additional capacity it provides...
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
There's sum useless bastards involved.
Incompetence on a math scale.
Their actions are a sin we need reform of the Civil Service, cos they are clueless.
You know how to tan someone's hide with words, that's for sure.
The link below in the cyclist tragedy is interesting - scroll down to the comments section. Looks like there is an aspect of the council covering its arse in this and maybe misleading the judge.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
Leon's not very bright.
Remember when he dribbled about Russia launching nukes last autumn.
Or spammed PB for months about how what.three.words would change the world, and only thick PBers couldn't see its potential.
It's strange in this case though, because he is in fact just agreeing with Nigelb that poor areas of cities tend to have the worst air pollution so not sure why Leon is swearing at Nigelb. It seems to be just because someone somewhere 4 steps removed implied that 'whites' were causing harm to 'non-whites', which made him fly into a rage.
Off to Bala later today, where it’s supposedly going to drop as low as -8°, though I’m not sure I believe it - meteorologists share the same fetish for pronouncing grim outlooks that some medical professionals do.
It’s a poker weekend (wish me luck, I’ll need it) supposedly interspersed with hiking, but I’ve about as much interest in scaling Cader Idris in this weather as Boris has in constituency casework. Beer, book and log fire seems more appealing.
Bala must be quite spectacular in this weather. The lake and the hills should be stunning.
But I wouldn't advise Cadair, particularly not the steep trails up from Llyn Cae.
I want to walk round the lake, at least. One of my favourite novels, Austerlitz, is set in part around Bala.
I cycled round it three years ago, while everywhere was fairly quiet due to semi-lockdown. Wouldn't care to do it under normal conditions because there's one stretch you have to use the main road and it's narrow, twisty and traffic still goes quite fast. But it was quite an experience.
If they only built a three mile off road track east from Llanuwchllyn to connect up with the existing cycle lane that would be one of the great rides of Wales, fit to compare with the Mawddach trail, the Porthmadog to Harlech trail and the Lon Las Eifion.
It's still decent as it is, you just can't quite do a circuit which is slightly annoying.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
Leon's not very bright.
Remember when he dribbled about Russia launching nukes last autumn.
Or spammed PB for months about how what.three.words would change the world, and only thick PBers couldn't see its potential.
Good point. I must remember to make allowances for dim people - it's not their fault and there's nothing they can do about it, after all.
Re HS2 I build megaprojects for a living. Typically $5-20 Billion. They are always late and overbudget but get built and meet their objectives. The biggest control needed is 'management of change'. Rule 1 is dont change unless absolutely neccesary.
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
The limited extra cost of the additional speed made it a worthwhile addition but the problem was that it's been sold on the speed and journey times not on the additional capacity it provides...
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
There's sum useless bastards involved.
Incompetence on a math scale.
Their actions are a sin we need reform of the Civil Service, cos they are clueless.
You know how to tan someone's hide with words, that's for sure.
Talking about the Civil Service after their disgraceful behaviour in lockdown trig-gers me.
They should do - a large LD lead in the last election, with the SNP getting the second seat because the Scots have PR. The SNP councillor died, so there's a single seat up, which the LibDems should win - a quirk of how PR interacts with by-elections, since when they're both up for election the SNP will probably get it back.
Not if you base your hope on the actual figures, Mr Palmer.
Morning all! No snow here in North Essex; it’s just light rain. Granddaughter in Leeds reports heavy snow. They live on the hillside so the cars are unusable, so both working from home.
Morning all! No snow here in North Essex; it’s just light rain. Granddaughter in Leeds reports heavy snow. They live on the hillside so the cars are unusable, so both working from home.
It's snowing heavily here now; settling on the grass, but not on the roads.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
Leon's not very bright.
Remember when he dribbled about Russia launching nukes last autumn.
Or spammed PB for months about how what.three.words would change the world, and only thick PBers couldn't see its potential.
It's strange in this case though, because he is in fact just agreeing with Nigelb that poor areas of cities tend to have the worst air pollution so not sure why Leon is swearing at Nigelb. It seems to be just because someone somewhere 4 steps removed implied that 'whites' were causing harm to 'non-whites', which made him fly into a rage.
Tbh my “rage status” is low
Tho if they don’t renew my Saigon Special beer I might get a bit ORNERY
Snowing heavily on the Lincolnshire edge again this morning. I had thought we were done with it last night as it was hammering down with rain but back to freezing conditions and lots of snow again now.
So Raab is safe as his mate, rule breaking Rishi will save him, it is the Priti Patel bullying stuff all over again.
Rishi Sunak will determine whether Dominic Raab bullied officials because the formal investigation into his conduct will not express an opinion about his behaviour, The Times has been told.
Adam Tolley KC was appointed by the prime minister in November to investigate formal complaints made by civil servants about the justice secretary’s behaviour.
Alleged victims of Raab, the deputy prime minister, have been told that Tolley will only seek to establish the facts surrounding allegations of bullying in three government departments. He will not give a “subjective” opinion on whether the events that he outlines in his report, which is expected to be published later this month, amount to bullying.
A Whitehall source said that Sunak would be the “arbiter” of whether the actions of Raab, one of his closest allies, constitute bullying.
Raab is said to be facing at least 24 complaints from civil servants who have worked with him across three government departments.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
I believe the obsession is American in origin. Hence the initiating comment from @williamglenn
Americans have turned a known class issue - poor people living in the more polluted areas of cities (usually in the east in the northern hemisphere) into an issue of race. Yet again
The phenomenon of poorer eastern neighbourhoods goes back centuries and is ubiquitous
This thing about poorer areas being downwind has been a 'prevailing' idea in historical and archaeological circles for decades. But to be honest I always considered it something of a myth. Interesting to see a serious study on it.
One thing you do note on Romano-British sites is that the earliest occupation often tends to be downstream and then moves upstream with time. So the 1st century stuff will be downstream, then as they pollute their water sources the settlement migrates upstream. Again it is by no means a hard and fast rule but it is common enough that you can get a good feel for how pottery and other finds will change on a site and where you are likely to get latest occupation.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
I believe the obsession is American in origin. Hence the initiating comment from @williamglenn
Americans have turned a known class issue - poor people living in the more polluted areas of cities (usually in the east in the northern hemisphere) into an issue of race. Yet again
The phenomenon of poorer eastern neighbourhoods goes back centuries and is ubiquitous
That is now something of a commonplace, as SS also noted.
The point of the article I linked was how poor environmental regulation continues to place a disproportionate health burden deriving from new economic development on the economically disadvantaged areas. SS referred to “whatever pollution us happening in the city”, which makes it sound a passive process, which isn’t entirely true.
So Raab is safe as his mate, rule breaking Rishi will save him, it is the Priti Patel bullying stuff all over again.
Rishi Sunak will determine whether Dominic Raab bullied officials because the formal investigation into his conduct will not express an opinion about his behaviour, The Times has been told.
Adam Tolley KC was appointed by the prime minister in November to investigate formal complaints made by civil servants about the justice secretary’s behaviour.
Alleged victims of Raab, the deputy prime minister, have been told that Tolley will only seek to establish the facts surrounding allegations of bullying in three government departments. He will not give a “subjective” opinion on whether the events that he outlines in his report, which is expected to be published later this month, amount to bullying.
A Whitehall source said that Sunak would be the “arbiter” of whether the actions of Raab, one of his closest allies, constitute bullying.
Raab is said to be facing at least 24 complaints from civil servants who have worked with him across three government departments.
Snowing heavily on the Lincolnshire edge again this morning. I had thought we were done with it last night as it was hammering down with rain but back to freezing conditions and lots of snow again now.
On a train from Edinburgh heading north. Not even a frost on the fields around here so far (just south of the bridge). It seems to have been exceptionally patchy.
Has been a battleground for some time, as fact that poor parts of town in US are generally down-wind of whatever pollution is happening in the city or metro area. Thus usually on the east side, as most weather comes from the west in North America. PLUS things like dumps, incinerators, smokestacks, freight yards, etc, etc tend to end up in poorer hoods NOT the high-hat districts.
So NOT the latest, but still a big deal. In terms of equity AND environment.
Ffs this is true of every city in the northern hemisphere. Winds from the west prevail, so pollution is driven east. This is why poor areas of cities tend to be in the east. See: the East End
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
Read the post I replied to and get a grip yourself. Your race obsession is disturbing.
You’re the guys that brought race into it! Literally. I’m pointing out that this so called racial inequity is all about social class, not race, and if you had a brain you’d already know the east/west wealth divide is an established urban phenomenon, because of the weather in northern hemisphere cities
You’re just not very clever
I didn’t mention race; nor did SS. You’re an obsessed idiot.
Here’s what he posted you pitiful moron
He replied to what williamglenn posted.p, which seems to have got you both confused and exited. Use your brain.
He was replying to a post saying “white people are polluting non white people” and he said Yes, this is an issue of equity
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
Clearly it was @williamglenn who brought race into the conversation, not Seashanty, not Nigelb.
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
This whole squabble is just childish. If a topic is opened clearly about race, which it was, its not exactly unreasonable for someone coming into it later to also talk about race, even if others responding in the debate intended to take it in another direction. Thatd be like complaining about politics being brought up in a PB thread even though most people were commenting about trains.
Comments
Double-decker trains are more common in Europe and are perfectly possible with standard gauge.
The issue is it requires higher clearances, they can't go massively fast, due to the dynamic envelope, and the dwell time at each station is longer as people need to load/unload from the upper deck too.
Never seen so much snowfall. Normally clear passage is now limited by branches bowing beneath the weight. Both side and front gates were laden with it and frozen shut. Couldn't see clearly where the path ended and the garden began.
Tonight looks set to be genuinely nasty though. -5 here which isn’t the coldest I’ve known but isn’t far off.
If we had started building railways ten or twenty years later, with none of the 'history' of plateways/tramways, we might have had a less restrictive loading gauge. As it is, it only needed allow the small locos of the 1830s plus chaldrons or small passenger wagons through.
Also, because of our population density, more structures were often required than our continental friends - and that meant more cost for a larger loading gauge.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/merryn-talks-money/id1654809850
The problem with HS2 was unclear objectives (you dont need high speed to increase capacity) - and changes driven by external political interference (building unneccesary tunnels to appease local conservative associations).
Not great.
Higher than 0.1% predicted.
GDP grew 0.3% in January:
▪️ services grew 0.5%
▪️ manufacturing fell 0.4%
▪️ construction fell 1.7%
https://twitter.com/ons/status/1634086914453131268
Looks like we’ve been importing a shit ton of gold in the last seven months.
Or is that exporting?
I don’t recall reading anything in the FT/Bloomberg about this.
Have I got the wrong end of the stick?
But this was about those who might (semi) plausibly resort to violence. Including them in that is to resort to the favoured Republican ‘both sides’ rhetorical stance.
This is the thing: health spending, whether private or public, just has to go up as a %age of GDP.
The private sector is picking up that demand, but I'd rather it was it was in the public sector so we don't get even more health inequalities.
Today is the 5th anniversary of the 'BBC Dad' event and probably the last time I will mark this date here on Twitter
My wife and I remain deeply grateful for all the kindness about our kids over the years. Thank you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY
https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1501668798507921409?s=20
It should start melting away shortly.
Windy aaf in south Devon though.
Human ingenuity and technological development is capable of amazing things, but to a great extent it reacts to incentives and necessity.
There is not only one path of technological development that was possible. Different directions could have been taken.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/10-most-air-polluted-places-to-live-us
On GDP Stats one of the things that emerged during COVID was how different countries measure health care differently. In Spain, (IIRC) they measure inputs - salaries - so during the pandemic their health service boomed and productivity soared all contributing to GDP. In the U.K. on the other hand we measure outputs - operations and so on - which fell substantially - dragging down GDP. As the NHS catches up on the operations backlog that will contribute to GDP.
From the tweet after that one, the main factors driving it are improved school attendance and the return of domestic football after the World Cup.
https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1634087392452784128
All counts, of course... But strange.
It has absolutely fuck all to do with race and diversity and racial equity unless traditional cockneys are secretly African. It’s just more American madness. Get a grip
That might have avoided some of the consequences which are now already inevitable.
It would have required broad societal consensus, though.
Any earlier than that is economically implausible, I think.
https://www.skidxb.com/
Your race obsession is disturbing.
M62 traffic: Heavy snow causes traffic chaos as drivers move just 15 miles in six hours
There are delays of around three hours on the M62 in Yorkshire due to heavy snow – although some drivers have reported being stuck for around six hours.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/transport/m62-traffic-heavy-snow-causes-traffic-chaos-as-drivers-move-just-15-miles-in-six-hours-4058470
You’re just not very clever
But the problem is that the electric tech at the time just could not compete with ICE, once ICE development really got going. It's hard for electric cars to compete nowadays, with massive amounts of electronics and very (relatively) efficient motors.
Then there's power generation. Yes, the first electrical appliances (e.g. Armstrong's gaff) were hydro powered. But again, these were small-scale.
The truth is we required massive amounts of energy to develop our tech to the state where we can now develop competitive widespread green energy. In the world you envision, we might have very sparse power capabilities, and we would be stuck at late 1800s tech level, with a lucky few having electricity.
And meanwhile, factories will be belching out smoke, steam trains would be blackening the sky, gas streetlights, and all the advantages electricity gives us would be for naught.
Basically; I think we needed widespread, cheap 'dirty' power to build the tech we need to move into a greener future.
You’re an obsessed idiot.
It’s a poker weekend (wish me luck, I’ll need it) supposedly interspersed with hiking, but I’ve about as much interest in scaling Cader Idris in this weather as Boris has in constituency casework. Beer, book and log fire seems more appealing.
Rishi Sunak will determine whether Dominic Raab bullied officials because the formal investigation into his conduct will not express an opinion about his behaviour, The Times has been told.
Adam Tolley KC was appointed by the prime minister in November to investigate formal complaints made by civil servants about the justice secretary’s behaviour.
Alleged victims of Raab, the deputy prime minister, have been told that Tolley will only seek to establish the facts surrounding allegations of bullying in three government departments. He will not give a “subjective” opinion on whether the events that he outlines in his report, which is expected to be published later this month, amount to bullying.
A Whitehall source said that Sunak would be the “arbiter” of whether the actions of Raab, one of his closest allies, constitute bullying.
Raab is said to be facing at least 24 complaints from civil servants who have worked with him across three government departments.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dominic-raab-bullying-inquiry-will-defer-to-rishi-sunak-for-final-verdict-6gttpp78l
And that isn't help by the fact the calculations the Treasury use to justify investment are beyond hopeless.
But I wouldn't advise Cadair, particularly not the steep trails up from Llyn Cae.
Oliver Bretherton, who had a senior position at an Anglo-Canadian firm, is also accused of asking the 18-year-old to masturbate in front of him and of having sent her a video of himself performing a solo sex act.
Bretherton, 41, admitted sending the woman pornography, including leaked images “relating to” Megan Barton-Hanson, who appeared on ITV’s Love Island in 2018, but denied doing so on many occasions.
Lawyers for the profession’s regulator have told the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal that Bretherton, a married banking and finance specialist, recruited the woman about five years ago, just after she had finished her A-levels.
Nimi Bruce, who appeared for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, told the tribunal that Bretherton said to the woman that he wanted to “f*** her and he would do it in the office and he didn’t care if there was a glass wall”, according to a report of the hearing in The Law Society Gazette.
At the time, Bretherton was 36 and a lawyer at Gowling WLG, a large international practice based in the City and in Ottawa.
Prosecuting lawyers added that Bretherton monitored the amount of time the woman spent in the lavatory and once threw ping-pong balls down her dress. He is alleged to have conducted a campaign of harassment against the woman, who has been referred to only as Person A, for more than a year.
Allegations of harassment have also been made by two other women against the lawyer.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/city-lawyer-sent-nude-photos-of-love-island-star-to-18-year-old-assistant-nj33rqmkt
I absolutely wouldn't have chanced M62 Windy Hill though given the forecast. I've done that when they put about 3 dozen gritters out and they work in formations of 3 or 4 and the cars follow them. You know at the point those gritters lose its already really bad and you're not going to going anywhere in a hurry.
And apparently I’m the person who brings race into this debate. Tbh “pitiful moron” was generous
And yes, your obsession with race is deeply disturbing.
*Littleborough - Todmorden
Update the Equality Act to make clear the characteristic “sex” is biological sex
https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=623243
"Double all your costs and then come back. So we can laugh at you some more. Now fuck off...."
Remember when he dribbled about Russia launching nukes last autumn.
Or spammed PB for months about how what.three.words would change the world, and only thick PBers couldn't see its potential.
But something's different today. Must be the weather.
"The working homeless."
I don't think things are quite that bad in Britain yet, or maybe I've missed reporting of it.
Americans have turned a known class issue - poor people living in the more polluted areas of cities (usually in the east in the northern hemisphere) into an issue of race. Yet again
The phenomenon of poorer eastern neighbourhoods goes back centuries and is ubiquitous
https://road.cc/content/news/auriol-grey-seeks-leave-appeal-vs-manslaughter-sentence-299825
If they only built a three mile off road track east from Llanuwchllyn to connect up with the existing cycle lane that would be one of the great rides of Wales, fit to compare with the Mawddach trail, the Porthmadog to Harlech trail and the Lon Las Eifion.
It's still decent as it is, you just can't quite do a circuit which is slightly annoying.
Tho if they don’t renew my Saigon Special beer I might get a bit ORNERY
One thing you do note on Romano-British sites is that the earliest occupation often tends to be downstream and then moves upstream with time. So the 1st century stuff will be downstream, then as they pollute their water sources the settlement migrates upstream. Again it is by no means a hard and fast rule but it is common enough that you can get a good feel for how pottery and other finds will change on a site and where you are likely to get latest occupation.
The point of the article I linked was how poor environmental regulation continues to place a disproportionate health burden deriving from new economic development on the economically disadvantaged areas.
SS referred to “whatever pollution us happening in the city”, which makes it sound a passive process, which isn’t entirely true.