I would like to speak to a manager.

I’ve lived in the UK for roughly eight years and the one thing about this part of the world that still baffles me are the showers with half a door. Is it to save a few pounds/Euros? Why is it seemingly preferable for the water to get everywhere? Can someone explain this silliness?

Something I've learned about having a UK residence: Filling out web forms is always adventure. Is your option going to be the United Kingdom? Great Britain? England? England and Wales?

John spent 8 weeks in Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region, talking to exiled Kurdish Iranian fighters & senior Iraqi officials. We analysed U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran & Iranian attacks against the Kurds, and spoke by phone to residents of predominantly Kurdish areas in Iran.

Reuters reporting from the Iran-Iraq border shows how U.S. and Israeli hopes that Kurdish fighters would come to their aid collapsed under two pressures: mixed signals from DC & Jerusalem, and a relentless campaign of military strikes and threats against Kurds on both sides of the border by the IRGC

Trump’s mixed messages and Iran’s bombs kept the Kurds out of the war Iran’s Revolutionary Guards deterred the Kurds from rising up through a combination of military strikes in neighbouring Iraq and threats against Kurds on both sides of the border. Ambiguous messages f...

NEWS by John Davison and me: How Trump’s mixed messages and Iran’s bombs kept the Kurds out of the war

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We must now recognise that any crisis of interest to American politicians could lead to a shutdown of the flow of information from providers. We must diversify.

Satellite firm Planet Labs to indefinitely withhold Iran war images Satellite imaging firm Planet Labs said on Saturday it will indefinitely withhold ‌visuals of Iran and the region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from the U.S. government.

For journalists, humanitarians and other non-governmental types using earth observation data, the unfortunate lesson we must take from this shutdown of commercial satellite data by US providers is that we cannot rely on American earth observation companies alone. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Hounds circling

Yum

Finished

A little baste…

Vaya con dios little gammon

Cover it in rub

Remove the fat cap.

We started the fire awhile ago.

Chat I’ve got a new smoker and we are doing gammon today.

The Complicated Financial Lives of Dentists, the Millionaires Next Door They have high incomes and valuable practices but start their professional lives playing catchup, a challenge for the money managers chasing after them.

Won’t someone think of the poor, poor American dentists and their first-world problems of being a mid-tier millionaire? Good Lord.

www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

Welcome to ‘New Russia’: How the Kremlin is remaking occupied Ukraine Moscow is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into an aggressive buildout of transport and trade infrastructure in the Ukrainian territories it has seized. The projects are inexorably weaving thes...

New: We looked at how Russia is remaking occupied territories in Ukraine, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into roads, railways and ports to try and inexorably tie the region into their own, part of Putin's grand vision for what it calls "Novorossiya" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

For @reuters.com , @mcneill.bsky.social built a machine learning model to scrutinize satellite imagery for infrastructure changes in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Exclusive: Trump approved Iran operation after Netanyahu argued for joint killing of Khamenei, sources say Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Netanyahu spoke to Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war the American leader once had campaigned again...

Netanyahu has spent a lot of time visiting Trump recently. // Exclusive: Trump approved Iran operation after Netanyahu argued for joint killing of Khamenei - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

“As I was saying…”

Me, echoing Charlie Brown's lament about Snoopy: "Why can't I have a normal dog?" Franklin the Basshole: "because f-you, that's why."

1) What is a global market price and why are we magically insulated from it? (We're not)
2) Who blew up the detente around the Hormuz Strait?

ICYMI

Trump repeatedly called journalists “the enemy of the people,” “human scum,” “very dangerous and sick.”

Here is the painstaking work of a couple of #journalists doing the job of presenting facts, pursuing the truth for America & the world. So many journalists doing incredible work right now.

Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a yearslong online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities, before it was bombed along ...

A Reuters visual investigation raises questions about how the U.S. military could have missed a documented, yearslong online presence for the girls school that was bombed in Iran. This including dozens of photos of the children and their activities. Investigation ongoing.

The strikes included the use of at least one American Tomahawk missile. Reuters first reported investigators at the Department of Defense believe U.S. forces were likely responsible for the strike on the building.

There, on March 2, the dead children were buried, creating row after row of 20 tidy rectangular holes in the earth. The strike killed 150 children, according to Iran's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva (Reuters has not independently confirmed the death toll).

Our analysis intended to detect areas of potential strikes, using sat data from visible & invisible light spectrum, highlighted another area of ground upheaval: the town cemetery.