An aviation 'expert' on BBC News at 11.20 seemed rather keen to blame the pilots for the crash, citing a misconfiguration (landing gear down, no visible flaps). They did not discuss any oth… (View Post)

A million Russian troops (and their allies...) killed, wounded, missing or captured. https://x.com/GeneralStaffUA/status/1933021623499829513 What Putin unleashed his evil, he did so on his own countr… (View Post)

Coming back to the A1 dualling discussion last night. Some seemed aggrieved that £68 million had been spent on planning cancelled project. When it was cancelled, that project was due to cost signific… (View Post)

American science is doomed. Trump is taking his lead on many things from the techbroes and their hangers-on. The problem is that the techbroes don't care about science. They will use science to … (View Post)

You don't like Israel. Fair enough, there are good reasons not to. But Iran is, if anything, far worse. And they really, really want to build a nuke; your last sentence seems really at odd with … (View Post)