If UK bill payers are about to be forced to fund this infrastructure spending (which seems likely), then we shouldn't have to bail out the effectively bankrupt company's shareholders (largely overseas). We should own it.
Will Hutton makes a good argument for the changes to farming death duties in The Observer. I hadn't realised Thatcher had introduced it in 1984. So long as the wealthy prioritise and are incentivised to prioritise land ownership we will be a country in decline.
Most farmers aren't wealthy but income poor even if asset rich
Hutton's argument is that they can sell off part of the farm. It might even depress land values.
They have loads of options. Gift slices of the farm to their inheritors every 7 years and they need pay nothing at all.
The most obvious way to do this is by means of a partnership through which the capital can be transferred from one generation to the next over time whilst regulating the shares of profits (or losses) to reflect the work actually done on the farm.
There is a group with no obvious options: very old farmers who have held on to ownership, correctly under the exisiting law, and who won't have 7 years to rectify and rearrange. They should receive special treatment.
The slightly odd thing is that the government is sticking to the plan, suggesting that very few are affected because of exemptions, (that therefore it will raise little cash), but that the economy requires this change. This does its image little good at the very moment it holds rural seats for the first time in ages.
Slightly odd? Or just very very stupid?
A policy change does not have to raise ££ to be the right thing. Eliminating the IHT loophole for agricultural land will (ceteris paribus) make it cheaper, something actual farmers who want to farm should surely welcome?
If farmers want to find people to blame, perhaps they ought to turn their attention to the wealthy individuals who bought up vast tracts of land in order to pass their wealth onto their heirs tax free?
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
If UK bill payers are about to be forced to fund this infrastructure spending (which seems likely), then we shouldn't have to bail out the effectively bankrupt company's shareholders (largely overseas). We should own it.
Confiscatory nationalisation. Would put the fear of God into the other moneygrubbers, too.
It wouldn’t necessarily be confiscatory, or indeed, a nationalisation.
If Thames Water (meaning the structure of companies owning it as well) goes bust, then the shareholders and bond holders take a bath.
The important thing is to make sure suppliers are paid - the government could guarantee loans for that specific purpose, with a nice interest rate. Without the debt mountain, Thames Water is a profitable business, and could easily pay back such loans.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
It’s actually a very old idea. The big problem is the intensity of the heat (hot water) you get back from the giant storage heater. Good for a district heating solution, but not hot enough to power a system to turn it back into lecture efficiently. Probably.
Clearly I am not going to say anything specific, but TwiX today is full of extraordinary rumours. So much so, I have non-political friends whatsapping me and saying "is this true? What do you know???"
They think that as I am mildly connected I have some further details. I do not. Wish I did!
I do - it's all nonsense.
I'd be surprised if you know more than me, and I only know 5% of what is a known unknown, what about the unknown unknown and how does this fit in with the Anglesey Situation, and the involvement of the Argentine?
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts - so let's post the last two paragraphs....
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Will Hutton makes a good argument for the changes to farming death duties in The Observer. I hadn't realised Thatcher had introduced it in 1984. So long as the wealthy prioritise and are incentivised to prioritise land ownership we will be a country in decline.
Most farmers aren't wealthy but income poor even if asset rich
Hutton's argument is that they can sell off part of the farm. It might even depress land values.
They have loads of options. Gift slices of the farm to their inheritors every 7 years and they need pay nothing at all.
The most obvious way to do this is by means of a partnership through which the capital can be transferred from one generation to the next over time whilst regulating the shares of profits (or losses) to reflect the work actually done on the farm.
There is a group with no obvious options: very old farmers who have held on to ownership, correctly under the exisiting law, and who won't have 7 years to rectify and rearrange. They should receive special treatment.
The slightly odd thing is that the government is sticking to the plan, suggesting that very few are affected because of exemptions, (that therefore it will raise little cash), but that the economy requires this change. This does its image little good at the very moment it holds rural seats for the first time in ages.
Slightly odd? Or just very very stupid?
A policy change does not have to raise ££ to be the right thing. Eliminating the IHT loophole for agricultural land will (ceteris paribus) make it cheaper, something actual farmers who want to farm should surely welcome?
If farmers want to find people to blame, perhaps they ought to turn their attention to the wealthy individuals who bought up vast tracts of land in order to pass their wealth onto their heirs tax free?
IR35 is the result of companies trying to avoid paying workers via PAYE - I've been subject to the badly thought through consequences of it for most of the past 24 years...
Will Hutton makes a good argument for the changes to farming death duties in The Observer. I hadn't realised Thatcher had introduced it in 1984. So long as the wealthy prioritise and are incentivised to prioritise land ownership we will be a country in decline.
Most farmers aren't wealthy but income poor even if asset rich
Hutton's argument is that they can sell off part of the farm. It might even depress land values.
They have loads of options. Gift slices of the farm to their inheritors every 7 years and they need pay nothing at all.
They need to pay an annual market rent on the gifted property otherwise it is a gift with reservation which doesn’t work for IHT
Set up a trust...
There are changes occurring there as well - so probably not the best advice.
Do we know yet (small print in the Budget) or are they coming down the line, please?
Clearly I am not going to say anything specific, but TwiX today is full of extraordinary rumours. So much so, I have non-political friends whatsapping me and saying "is this true? What do you know???"
They think that as I am mildly connected I have some further details. I do not. Wish I did!
I do - it's all nonsense.
I'd be surprised if you know more than me, and I only know 5% of what is a known unknown, what about the unknown unknown and how does this fit in with the Anglesey Situation, and the involvement of the Argentine?
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
If UK bill payers are about to be forced to fund this infrastructure spending (which seems likely), then we shouldn't have to bail out the effectively bankrupt company's shareholders (largely overseas). We should own it.
Confiscatory nationalisation. Would put the fear of God into the other moneygrubbers, too.
It wouldn’t necessarily be confiscatory, or indeed, a nationalisation.
If Thames Water (meaning the structure of companies owning it as well) goes bust, then the shareholders and bond holders take a bath.
The important thing is to make sure suppliers are paid - the government could guarantee loans for that specific purpose, with a nice interest rate. Without the debt mountain, Thames Water is a profitable business, and could easily pay back such loans.
But don't the same old shareholders and bondholders stay in place, unless they are expropriated? Like with Northern Rock.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Is the parachute absolutely necessary?
You may well ask that question; I have no desire to be banned
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Is the parachute absolutely necessary?
I think we could save a fortune if we paid their prison service to host the prisoner as soon as they were sentenced.
That would also allow people who have been away a few years to acclimatise to their former country.
It’s actually a very old idea. The big problem is the intensity of the heat (hot water) you get back from the giant storage heater. Good for a district heating solution, but not hot enough to power a system to turn it back into lecture efficiently. Probably.
Heating, though, is quite a big part of our winter energy demand. And this is a pretty cheap system to set up, and maintain.
600degC is also quite a bit hotter than your usual storage heater.
I wonder if you combined it with a liquid air storage system, you could efficiently generate electricity ?
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Is the parachute absolutely necessary?
You may well ask that question; I have no desire to be banned
If UK bill payers are about to be forced to fund this infrastructure spending (which seems likely), then we shouldn't have to bail out the effectively bankrupt company's shareholders (largely overseas). We should own it.
Confiscatory nationalisation. Would put the fear of God into the other moneygrubbers, too.
We could just recapitalise them a la RBS.
They have the money, the nation gets the equity. The shareholders get buggered.
Of course the government would mismanage the process, but they would mismanage any process involving owning a national asset, so that's not a serious objection.
The bigger objection is that it was the previous shareholders - Macquarie - who took the money and ran. It's now pension funds in the U.K. and Canada would take the hit.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Is the parachute absolutely necessary?
We could compromise - give them the economy version that opens on impact?
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts - so let's post the last two paragraphs....
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Process State -
A lengthy, involved, intricate process was undertaken, by trained experts, to assess the future disposition of a convicted pedophile. It was decided to return the criminal to his family.
The danger that the criminal posed to the victim and other children in the family was left out. Of the lengthy, complex and detailed assessment.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts - so let's post the last two paragraphs....
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Process State -
A lengthy, involved, intricate process was undertaken, by trained experts, to assess the future disposition of a convicted pedophile. It was decided to return the criminal to his family.
The danger that the criminal posed to the victim and other children in the family was left out. Of the lengthy, complex and detailed assessment.
It’s actually a very old idea. The big problem is the intensity of the heat (hot water) you get back from the giant storage heater. Good for a district heating solution, but not hot enough to power a system to turn it back into lecture efficiently. Probably.
Heating, though, is quite a big part of our winter energy demand. And this is a pretty cheap system to set up, and maintain.
600degC is also quite a bit hotter than your usual storage heater.
I wonder if you combined it with a liquid air storage system, you could efficiently generate electricity ?
Ideas have been tried like this in the past. Thermal cycling tends to result in non trivial maintenance requirements. It may work - the devil is in the operational details.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts - so let's post the last two paragraphs....
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Process State -
A lengthy, involved, intricate process was undertaken, by trained experts, to assess the future disposition of a convicted pedophile. It was decided to return the criminal to his family.
The danger that the criminal posed to the victim and other children in the family was left out. Of the lengthy, complex and detailed assessment.
I'm just going for grade A incompetency somewhere within the court case...
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts - so let's post the last two paragraphs....
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Process State -
A lengthy, involved, intricate process was undertaken, by trained experts, to assess the future disposition of a convicted pedophile. It was decided to return the criminal to his family.
The danger that the criminal posed to the victim and other children in the family was left out. Of the lengthy, complex and detailed assessment.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Is the parachute absolutely necessary?
We could compromise - give them the economy version that opens on impact?
What about the system for devolving cargo to hazardous areas? A C130 (or similar) skims the ground - nearly touching down. A drag chute (small parachute) pull a pallet out of the open rear cargo door.
If UK bill payers are about to be forced to fund this infrastructure spending (which seems likely), then we shouldn't have to bail out the effectively bankrupt company's shareholders (largely overseas). We should own it.
Confiscatory nationalisation. Would put the fear of God into the other moneygrubbers, too.
We could just recapitalise them a la RBS.
They have the money, the nation gets the equity. The shareholders get buggered.
Of course the government would mismanage the process, but they would mismanage any process involving owning a national asset, so that's not a serious objection.
The bigger objection is that it was the previous shareholders - Macquarie - who took the money and ran. It's now pension funds in the U.K. and Canada would take the hit.
It would still be a useful lesson, if people were less eager to buy financialised companies, in future.
If UK bill payers are about to be forced to fund this infrastructure spending (which seems likely), then we shouldn't have to bail out the effectively bankrupt company's shareholders (largely overseas). We should own it.
Confiscatory nationalisation. Would put the fear of God into the other moneygrubbers, too.
We could just recapitalise them a la RBS.
They have the money, the nation gets the equity. The shareholders get buggered.
Of course the government would mismanage the process, but they would mismanage any process involving owning a national asset, so that's not a serious objection.
The bigger objection is that it was the previous shareholders - Macquarie - who took the money and ran. It's now pension funds in the U.K. and Canada would take the hit.
It would still be a useful lesson, if people were less eager to buy financialised companies, in future.
Or if some pension fund managers got the sack, but that wouldn't happen either.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts - so let's post the last two paragraphs....
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Process State -
A lengthy, involved, intricate process was undertaken, by trained experts, to assess the future disposition of a convicted pedophile. It was decided to return the criminal to his family.
The danger that the criminal posed to the victim and other children in the family was left out. Of the lengthy, complex and detailed assessment.
I'm just going for grade A incompetency somewhere within the court case...
It does have a left-the-bolts-off-the-door-plug kind of feel to it.
But, also, we have been told that these processes are how we get accurate, sensible results.
See the snears at Gwen Showell for suggesting that a multi-thousand page document that doesn’t get read by anyone should be replaced by 5 pages with the actual information on it.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
I looked that up and came across this one at Wolverton, under a canal - hate to think what @MattW would think of a path being led through it.
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
I looked that up and came across this one at Wolverton, under a canal - hate to think what @MattW would think of a path being led through it.
Snip
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
Shall we just say it's still in use and it's not wide enough for most modern cars. In fact we have friends who have damaged their car driving through it (from what I've heard a lost wing mirror is a daily occurrence)..
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
I looked that up and came across this one at Wolverton, under a canal - hate to think what @MattW would think of a path being led through it.
Snip
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
I looked that up and came across this one at Wolverton, under a canal - hate to think what @MattW would think of a path being led through it.
Snip
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
I looked that up and came across this one at Wolverton, under a canal - hate to think what @MattW would think of a path being led through it.
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
I looked that up and came across this one at Wolverton, under a canal - hate to think what @MattW would think of a path being led through it.
Snip
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe.
When did they rename it the Principality Stadium? Annoying change
I don't like change
About 10 years ago....and of course we no longer have Twickers, its the Allianz...
It will forever be Billy Williams's cabbage patch to some of us.
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
It turns out that a large part of Darlington was owned by Mrs Eek's family back in the 1850s. In fact one of the bridges on the ECML was built so the farmer could access his farm.
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate' a landowner who might have pasture one one side and a milking parlour on the other.
I quite like low bridges called 'cattle creeps'. A couple I know would have trouble letting a cow through, height-wise.
I looked that up and came across this one at Wolverton, under a canal - hate to think what @MattW would think of a path being led through it.
Snip
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe.
Don't panic. Four converted tries in two minutes will see us over the line.
That was more like Australia versus Armenia
Have you got Shaun Edwards's phone number?
The only consolation for you Taffs is that England are nearly as bad
England really aren't that bad. Gatland without Edwards is like Robin without Batman.
England are bad in a different way. They have plenty of talent but the coaching is so dire they play like a team at least five places below in the rankings. And they are terrible chokers, and have been for years
Wales simply don't have the talent, right now - and I feel for them. Losing their one world class player - Rees Zammit - to NFL, was a horrible blow
Wales need to copy what Ireland did many years ago, and change their game from the grassroots up
If UK bill payers are about to be forced to fund this infrastructure spending (which seems likely), then we shouldn't have to bail out the effectively bankrupt company's shareholders (largely overseas). We should own it.
Confiscatory nationalisation. Would put the fear of God into the other moneygrubbers, too.
We could just recapitalise them a la RBS.
They have the money, the nation gets the equity. The shareholders get buggered.
Of course the government would mismanage the process, but they would mismanage any process involving owning a national asset, so that's not a serious objection.
The bigger objection is that it was the previous shareholders - Macquarie - who took the money and ran. It's now pension funds in the U.K. and Canada would take the hit.
It would still be a useful lesson, if people were less eager to buy financialised companies, in future.
Or if some pension fund managers got the sack, but that wouldn't happen either.
Are there many countries that secretly make it illegal to say certain things about the PM?
Any country with libel laws make it illegal to say certain things about anyone if they are libellous, and if they aren't you can test the claim in court
PM says he has no plans or speak to Putin in wake of Scholz call as he urges allies to “double down on shoring up support for Ukraine” and says must to that for “as long as it takes”. Here’s the exchange
Are there many countries that secretly make it illegal to say certain things about the PM?
Any country with libel laws make it illegal to say certain things about anyone if they are libellous, and if they aren't you can test the claim in court
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
Will Hutton makes a good argument for the changes to farming death duties in The Observer. I hadn't realised Thatcher had introduced it in 1984. So long as the wealthy prioritise and are incentivised to prioritise land ownership we will be a country in decline.
Most farmers aren't wealthy but income poor even if asset rich
Hutton's argument is that they can sell off part of the farm. It might even depress land values.
They have loads of options. Gift slices of the farm to their inheritors every 7 years and they need pay nothing at all.
The most obvious way to do this is by means of a partnership through which the capital can be transferred from one generation to the next over time whilst regulating the shares of profits (or losses) to reflect the work actually done on the farm.
There is a group with no obvious options: very old farmers who have held on to ownership, correctly under the exisiting law, and who won't have 7 years to rectify and rearrange. They should receive special treatment.
The slightly odd thing is that the government is sticking to the plan, suggesting that very few are affected because of exemptions, (that therefore it will raise little cash), but that the economy requires this change. This does its image little good at the very moment it holds rural seats for the first time in ages.
Slightly odd? Or just very very stupid?
A policy change does not have to raise ££ to be the right thing. Eliminating the IHT loophole for agricultural land will (ceteris paribus) make it cheaper, something actual farmers who want to farm should surely welcome?
If farmers want to find people to blame, perhaps they ought to turn their attention to the wealthy individuals who bought up vast tracts of land in order to pass their wealth onto their heirs tax free?
IR35 is the result of companies trying to avoid paying workers via PAYE - I've been subject to the badly thought through consequences of it for most of the past 24 years...
It is not just employers NI that a company saves. There are also pension contributions, holiday pay, sick pay and redundancy pay. I would rather pay someone £200 a day self employed than employ them at £35k pa. The only people worth employing these days are young graduates.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Is the parachute absolutely necessary?
You may well ask that question; I have no desire to be banned
Are there many countries that secretly make it illegal to say certain things about the PM?
Any country with libel laws make it illegal to say certain things about anyone if they are libellous, and if they aren't you can test the claim in court
That's no secret
But you aren’t allowed to say or publish The Thing. Making it a secret.
It is often not understood that, in the US, you can be prosecuted for publishing things about people. The First Amendment protection requires that you do certain things first. It’s not an onerous test, but every now and then, an idiot does fuck up. Matt Drudge did, regarding a Whitehouse staffer, IIRC. Though in that case, the libelled individual declined to prosecute.
Breaking news: President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea’s deployment of thousands of troops to aid Moscow’s war effort, according to U.S. officials.
Breaking news: President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea’s deployment of thousands of troops to aid Moscow’s war effort, according to U.S. officials.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Much better to be sexually abused by somebody born here.
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Much better to be sexually abused by somebody born here.
That would be making the punishment fit the crime, but I’m surprised to find you so punitive in matters of punishment.
Don't panic. Four converted tries in two minutes will see us over the line.
That was more like Australia versus Armenia
Have you got Shaun Edwards's phone number?
The only consolation for you Taffs is that England are nearly as bad
We gave Oz, NZ and SA really tough games
Wales lost to Fiji
But we lost, and we keep losing. It gets very old. Borthwick is a well-meaning fool
We want a better coach, but we have bags of talent
We should have promoted Andy Farrell before he went to Ireland
Completely agree. Boot out Borthwick, give Farrell whatever it takes
Borthwick just LOOKS like a loser. Speaks like it, acts like it, thinks like it
He reminds me of Gareth Southgate (tho Southgate was a much cannier coach) something in him says "I never win", and you can see it. Yet he's obviously a nice guy, like Gareth S
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts - so let's post the last two paragraphs....
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
I was just posting the headline, not the full article. I know journalists/publications don't like it if you post too much.
It’s actually a very old idea. The big problem is the intensity of the heat (hot water) you get back from the giant storage heater. Good for a district heating solution, but not hot enough to power a system to turn it back into lecture efficiently. Probably.
Heating, though, is quite a big part of our winter energy demand. And this is a pretty cheap system to set up, and maintain.
600degC is also quite a bit hotter than your usual storage heater.
I wonder if you combined it with a liquid air storage system, you could efficiently generate electricity ?
Ideas have been tried like this in the past. Thermal cycling tends to result in non trivial maintenance requirements. It may work - the devil is in the operational details.
Liquid air is a terrible way to store energy.
Cheap batteries for preference.
The sand thing (which probably lends itself to distributed storage, and looks quite cheap per kWh of heating), could fill quite a large winter niche.
Not sure about liquid air. It lends itself to a. Lot of other industrial stuff - and a lot of the process is mature tech - so I think it might also find a niche despite the inefficiencies. I agree it's not a great standalone solution.
But go to a local pricing electricity market, and you'll find out what works best just by market forces. Whoever can best use the zero marginal cost intermittent surpluses from wind or solar will emerge quite quickly. (Assuming the planners can be prevented from holding everything up for half a decade.)
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Much better to be sexually abused by somebody born here.
That would be making the punishment fit the crime, but I’m surprised to find you so punitive in matters of punishment.
We've discussed major new projects in the past, the costs, planning etc. I just thought I'd link to the latest consultation document for the new East-West Rail line between Bedford and Cambridge. If built, this would be a new-build 100MPH railway line.
This is the second consultation, after one in 2021.
Note the size of the document (this is *not* an official planning document), and the way various options for certain sections are presented, marked and ranked. It is about as far from just scribbling crayons on a map as it is possible to get.
This is one reason these projects cost such a lot of money. The problem is, it might just end up with an improved project at the end of it. But how many consultations are required? I think we had one for the broad route options, then when that was decided, one in 2021 for the route, and now this second one, with minor changes. Only after changes from this consultation are incorporated will planning consent be considered.
(Edit: no cattle creeps or accommodation bridges, in the strict sense of the term.)
"Paedophile who sexually assaulted stepdaughter allowed to stay in UK under ECHR rules Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
You seem to have missed the full article because the Home Office appealed and it seems the Judge missed half the facts
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Once a foreigner is convicted of a crime as evil as this - murder, rape, terrorism, child abuse - lawyers should be removed from the equation. At that point, when the villain has done his time, the RAF should take over, fly the villain into the airspace of his country of origin, strap him into a parachute - then push him out of the helicopter, saying "good luck"
Job done
Much better to be sexually abused by somebody born here.
That would be making the punishment fit the crime, but I’m surprised to find you so punitive in matters of punishment.
Clever twist!
Well, I was wondering who would carry it out. We no longer have a chief hangman but what about a chief well hung man?
Don't panic. Four converted tries in two minutes will see us over the line.
That was more like Australia versus Armenia
Have you got Shaun Edwards's phone number?
The only consolation for you Taffs is that England are nearly as bad
England really aren't that bad. Gatland without Edwards is like Robin without Batman.
England are bad in a different way. They have plenty of talent but the coaching is so dire they play like a team at least five places below in the rankings. And they are terrible chokers, and have been for years
Wales simply don't have the talent, right now - and I feel for them. Losing their one world class player - Rees Zammit - to NFL, was a horrible blow
Wales need to copy what Ireland did many years ago, and change their game from the grassroots up
The Regional game in Wales is in chaos.
Schools rugby is in very good order. We have them televised on S4C. Cowbridge Comp for example has a sixth form rugby academy. The trouble starts when they leave for Loughborough or Hartpury College they are after a while eligible for England.
State schools were once rugby only schools. For reasons of health and safety litigation football is more widely played in schools than it was.
Population is not on our side either. England have a pot of 10 times the potential talent than Wales, yet they still look to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to broaden the selection scope.
I see some people have forgotten the lessons about Twitter and Lord McAlpine.
Will they get sued?
They should be, sadly for senior politicos if they sued every time somebody posted something defamatory about them every lawyer in the UK would be needed.
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"How a sand battery could transform clean energy"
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221102-how-a-sand-battery-could-transform-clean-energy
"A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery to store wind and solar energy using crushed soapstone"
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/10/sand-batteries-could-be-key-breakthrough-in-storing-solar-and-wind-energy-year-round
If farmers want to find people to blame, perhaps they ought to turn their attention to the wealthy individuals who bought up vast tracts of land in order to pass their wealth onto their heirs tax free?
Kicking sex offender from Democratic Republic of Congo out of Scotland would affect his ‘family life’, tribunal says"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/17/paedophile-echr-asylum-seeker-deported-glasgow-scotland/
See, even back in 1909 farmers were selling their land for redevelopment...
If Thames Water (meaning the structure of companies owning it as well) goes bust, then the shareholders and bond holders take a bath.
The important thing is to make sure suppliers are paid - the government could guarantee loans for that specific purpose, with a nice interest rate. Without the debt mountain, Thames Water is a profitable business, and could easily pay back such loans.
The Home Secretary won an appeal against the ruling, in part because the interests of the stepdaughter had not been considered in an independent social work report that was crucial to allowing the original appeal.
It was also found that the potential risk MD might pose to his own children had not been taken into account. A new hearing is expected to take place this month.
Job done
The weird bit is that we moved here in 1998 and only discovered this when her uncle tracked the family tree during Covid..
That would also allow people who have been away a few years to acclimatise to their former country.
And this is a pretty cheap system to set up, and maintain.
600degC is also quite a bit hotter than your usual storage heater.
I wonder if you combined it with a liquid air storage system, you could efficiently generate electricity ?
They have the money, the nation gets the equity. The shareholders get buggered.
Of course the government would mismanage the process, but they would mismanage any process involving owning a national asset, so that's not a serious objection.
The bigger objection is that it was the previous shareholders - Macquarie - who took the money and ran. It's now pension funds in the U.K. and Canada would take the hit.
A lengthy, involved, intricate process was undertaken, by trained experts, to assess the future disposition of a convicted pedophile. It was decided to return the criminal to his family.
The danger that the criminal posed to the victim and other children in the family was left out. Of the lengthy, complex and detailed assessment.
Liquid air is a terrible way to store energy.
Australia are genuinely good
Wales are genuinely bad
The only growth we can realistically expect in the uk is ill health now it seems..🧐🥴
If it all goes right, the cargo is intact.
But, also, we have been told that these processes are how we get accurate, sensible results.
See the snears at Gwen Showell for suggesting that a multi-thousand page document that doesn’t get read by anyone should be replaced by 5 pages with the actual information on it.
But the 'accommodation crossings' - private level crossings, effectively, for the farmer - were also possible on railways for the obvious reason why they often aren't on a canal. Now regarded as a major safety issue, or perhaps cost issue, I believe. No; thank you.
How sad
Never mind
Think I’ve found the photo of the Wolverley creep and do see your point!
Wales lost to Fiji
Wales simply don't have the talent, right now - and I feel for them. Losing their one world class player - Rees Zammit - to NFL, was a horrible blow
Wales need to copy what Ireland did many years ago, and change their game from the grassroots up
https://youtu.be/AC9SF7TOyHQ?si=1IzAN3-XwGH5bMAT
https://x.com/BethRigby/status/1858204022135558242
We should have promoted Andy Farrell before he went to Ireland
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Make America Healthy Again lasted less than a Scaramucci
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lb5y4mdqdk2m
It is often not understood that, in the US, you can be prosecuted for publishing things about people. The First Amendment protection requires that you do certain things first. It’s not an onerous test, but every now and then, an idiot does fuck up. Matt Drudge did, regarding a Whitehouse staffer, IIRC. Though in that case, the libelled individual declined to prosecute.
Breaking news: President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea’s deployment of thousands of troops to aid Moscow’s war effort, according to U.S. officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/17/ukraine-russia-north-korea-atacms/
Borthwick just LOOKS like a loser. Speaks like it, acts like it, thinks like it
He reminds me of Gareth Southgate (tho Southgate was a much cannier coach) something in him says "I never win", and you can see it. Yet he's obviously a nice guy, like Gareth S
I listened to a solid week of Woman’s Hour…
What a week of woe it was"
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-listened-to-a-solid-week-of-womans-hour/
We've just had three of those, and we're not at all far behind the best teams in the world
I'm optimistic
The sand thing (which probably lends itself to distributed storage, and looks quite cheap per kWh of heating), could fill quite a large winter niche.
Not sure about liquid air. It lends itself to a. Lot of other industrial stuff - and a lot of the process is mature tech - so I think it might also find a niche despite the inefficiencies. I agree it's not a great standalone solution.
But go to a local pricing electricity market, and you'll find out what works best just by market forces. Whoever can best use the zero marginal cost intermittent surpluses from wind or solar will emerge quite quickly.
(Assuming the planners can be prevented from holding everything up for half a decade.)
Him and Marcus Smith would be the core of a world class team. If we also get a new coach
This is the second consultation, after one in 2021.
Note the size of the document (this is *not* an official planning document), and the way various options for certain sections are presented, marked and ranked. It is about as far from just scribbling crayons on a map as it is possible to get.
https://eastwestrail-production.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/public/2024-con-docs-/ea875894b1/Technical-Report-online-PDF.pdf
This is one reason these projects cost such a lot of money. The problem is, it might just end up with an improved project at the end of it. But how many consultations are required? I think we had one for the broad route options, then when that was decided, one in 2021 for the route, and now this second one, with minor changes. Only after changes from this consultation are incorporated will planning consent be considered.
(Edit: no cattle creeps or accommodation bridges, in the strict sense of the term.)
https://youtu.be/d3Mrfut-FSw?si=4Ed2w7iANuOBfThW
Schools rugby is in very good order. We have them televised on S4C. Cowbridge Comp for example has a sixth form rugby academy. The trouble starts when they leave for Loughborough or Hartpury College they are after a while eligible for England.
State schools were once rugby only schools. For reasons of health and safety litigation football is more widely played in schools than it was.
Population is not on our side either. England have a pot of 10 times the potential talent than Wales, yet they still look to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to broaden the selection scope.