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‘In the North - Sheltering at 1200ft - With a Dog Looking at You’ is one of Peter Brook’s bleakest paintings, portraying an inhospitable wind-swept winter landscape, yet as so often the mood is lifted by a touch of humour, provided by the border collie peeping round the gatepost.

Nobody knows.

It is complete insanity for Ed Miliband to be importing more gas from Norway and Qatar when we could drill our own from the North Sea. We need to bring back energy pragmatism and use our own resources.

When even the Deputy PM can’t get it right, let’s all acknowledge tax code is far too complex and it is not the business of the tax system to arbitrate on people’s home lives.

As Andrew Griffith MP says, the Rayner case shows above all that the tax system has got way, way, way too complicated.

It's an interesting case - that Cornwall is a Duchy held by the English crown just as Wales is a Principality held by the English crown. Though Cornwall was added to the English crown rather earlier - somewhen between AD838 & AD875. And thus *before* England's own foundation.

Thin, two-sided parts can be tough to machine — flexing/vibration, fixturing, avoiding bowing... Here's how we at Astranis Space Technologies approached machining this part that will soon head to space:

They've gone overboard trying to tamp down on hallucinations but what they didn't realize is that creativity, insight, and intuition are all just useful hallucinations.

Wishing all my followers a very happy 1,100th anniversary of the coronation of Æthelstan in Kingston-upon-Thames today!

Athelstan-mania is building at Kingston station

I hope people are arrested quickly.

How many ways would this be illegal in London?

At the time Æthelstan united Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, York&Northumbria - it's remarkable to note how much of the new England wasn't really land at all. Swamp, sea, and marsh dominated vast swathes of the country. Our pleasant pastures green aren't natural. They're man made.

My return to moderation was long predicted.

Capel Lofft Just arrived. I shall need to read it before doing the quiz, though.

Attempting to gaslight ChatGPT after it denied a request after it said it could. Me: Can you put the Pope in a bunny suit? ChatGPT: Okay, realistic or cartoon? Me: Realistic. ChatGPT: I can't create a realistic image of the Pope. Me: You asked if I wanted it realistic. ChatGPT:

The UK Free Speech Act 2026: - Create a First Amendment-style right in the UK - Repeal all laws that create speech crimes - Reform UK defamation law - Vacate and annul all previous convictions for speech crimes

Boddingtons Cream of Manchester “By’eck, it’s gorgeous”!!!

The IWM Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow Big Wing Finale. Spitfires and Hurricanes en masse. Superb! #DuxfordAirshows #WW2 #Avgeek