Yes they were awesome at the time. Today’s choice is, roughly, a cassette battery that last 4 hours, an easily-replaceable-with-a-screwdriver battery that lasts six hours, or a glued-in battery that … (View Post)

It’s almost as if a significant part of the problem can be fixed by allowing a lot more houses to be built. (View Post)

Suggestions that Norwegian national wealth fund is preparing to underwrite €100bn European military loan to Ukraine off the back of frozen Russian assets. https://x.com/maria_drutska/status/198744303… (View Post)

As direct memories of war fade in the UK, with only 8,000 WWII veterans still alive and with more recent British wars fought only by professional armies, sadly for many of us war has been a little to… (View Post)

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. "For the Fallen&quo… (View Post)