MTT RIP.

LA Times has gone with a photo of him conducting the LSO. Shade on SF?

My paternal grandfather - Tipperary man, which makes this relatively unusual - was pro-treaty. Moved over into the Free State Army and served throughout the Civil War. Never talked about it. He died in 1990 with a salute from a defence force firing party at the graveside.

Well FF had become - effectively -partitionist despite occasional fine words. Easy to imagine the disdain in Armagh

Respect. One of my uncles did too - about the only way to get a full secondary education in Ireland in the 40s.

133 litres was it?

This chain is so long that I’m beginning to suspect that you might be converts.

Tenant‘s repairing lease. To be fair to them it‘s expensive to maintain.

But the Unherd crowd would probably regard the opportunity to create a underclass as a good thing.

Could write a story based on joint tenancy in the UK - Right of Survivorship - perhaps of a house in a catchment area for good schools with a family of pushy partents murdeing each other.

What status would they have in law? Fully human or less than human? Could they be owned? Pets or slaves?

H Sapiens wiped them out once before so why should we be trusted with creating intelligent life and treating it ethicall?

Yes.

The one I find bizarre is that tontines are still a permitted class in EU regs. The UK had excluded though.

And probably the darkest:

And in all cases where the insured hath interest in such life or lives, event or events, no greater sum shall be recovered or received from the insurer or insurers than the amount of value of the interest of the insured in such life or lives, or other event or events.

There’s a long, grim history here.

Hence the Life Assurance Act 1774.

That was the oldest legislation I ever had to write about.

Tipp’s prospects in the hurling massively improved by the welcome eradication of Cork and Kilkenny.

The regime is in Japan at the moment a looking at flights for another trip in January. JAL has massively jacked the prices compared to what she’s paid this time.

Terry Tao has some great videos on cosmic distance scale just in case you haven’t seen those.

Fantastic! That was incredible work. Henrietta Leavitt especially.

Sinful that he, Hubble, and Lemaître didn’t get a Nobel for their work. They’ve always treated astrophysicists badly.

The committees are about getting soundbites rather than investigating an issue.

It can be a great deal of scrutiny and yet still not be enough.

It’s - since the Jenkins’ Home Office era - the most significant extension of state power into people’s lives.

Th Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the 2nd sentence:

“Knee surgery many years ago: a result of his past as a football player, which was supposed to have become his career.”

My Women by Yuliia Ilukha.

Quick bit of googling suggests we’re stuffed. Rotterdam is the European hub for aviation fuel and a lot of the raw material needs to come through the Straits.

Would be nice! There’s more urbanisation in UK and no BigCow but that doesn’t stop people arguing against solar in Norfolk or pylons to connect to offshore wind.

I’m not sure! The chart Duncan put up looks very scary for aviation.

Most of our imports are from US and Norway. Obviously prices, supply will move and be a massive pain but we’re on the “right” side of the blockage.

I think refineries need some switching around to deal with different grades of crude. Not sure.

So we may have a longer lag before we run dry.

Well yes. That‘s the point.

Depends on how forgiving one is.

The legislation was clear both times. But if she gets a pass the first time then she should be careful about tax thereafter . She wasn’t and that’s poor judgment. Blaming the conveyancers, who are a small business and not tax advisors was really shitty.

Thanks.