We should get the folks who run Ukrainian railways to come over and help us, they'd soon knock it into shape. Our railway is a disaster zone, even without any conflict.

Shouldn't it have AI in it?

They were careless people, Trump and Putin - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….

Shame on @unesco.bsky.social
Ukraine has reacted angrily to the U.N. body "forgetting" who was responsible for bombing a UNESCO World Heritage site in Lviv.

I've tried to help them by correcting their errors and omissions from the original statement. You're welcome!

Today is the last day of the 4th year of Russia's war.
Day 1461, which is 365 x4, plus one for the leap year.

Russia thought we would not see Day 4, western leaders thought 4 weeks was overly ambitious.
But Ukraine refused to surrender and each and every day I've documented it:

What could possibly go wrong? I mean, HS2 spends all its time tunnelling in the darkness, or building overblown elevated sections, both of which leave devastated land either side of what they do - the M42 overfly being a prime example. Bound to be dirt cheap too.

I'm afraid I think if Russia wages total war, then Ukraine should do the same. The Russians regularly close their airports, but a major drone attack on the Moscow airports would send a clear message.

Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over Epstein joke at Grammys The US president labels Noah a

If this is the sum of Trevor Noah's quote about Trump and islands, then Trump has inferred something from what was said that was NOT said. Now why would he do that?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've been avoiding amazon for quite a while.

Chinchilla the Hun:

✅ Refereed to bar council for racism

✅ Used racist terms made famous by Anders Brevik

✅ Called a racist by Tory peers

✅ Sacked by Liz Truss (!) for incompetence

✅ Sacked by Sunak for multiple breaches of ministerial code

✅ The future of Reform

Run a European tournament. Most of the great football teams (Germany, France, Denmark, Holland) would be there. You could invite Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela etc - I am sure they would prefer playing with quality teams.

Start by banning X

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.

And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

Also, if he has done that he is a cock (or a Koch?)

Yes, the heat pump was about 2.1MWh for a couple of years, but has crept up as I have had a Ukrainian family staying with me the last couple of years, though they will probably move on soon as the homes for Ukraine scheme is winding down. We enjoyed a lot of nice meals together.

That's very good. I had 6.7MWh from 9.3kWp. However, due to planning restrictions I only have 10-15 degree slope, so my winter generation is almost nothing, and my export is limited to 8kW. Consumption 5.4MWh, including heat pump and EV.

Surreal but impressive!

Ho-ho, looks like the flag killed the drone. Such desperation.

It's possible there are 2.7m questions, but then the most common would be 'why don't you f**k off'. I am sure Russians are getting a bit fed up of the power cuts and night and flight disruptions.

And two nice fat fingers (in the European style) to Trump about his crappy deals.

On The contrary, Europe needs to decide for positive action against Russia. Ideally at least take steps against Russian incursions in Donetsk and Crimea with a goal of removing Russia from Ukraine. Anything else will be more costly in the long run to Europe,

His main career seems to be in dissolving companies. Then the active ones don't seem to run to millions in value or turnover exactly.
All points to an interesting character - perhaps to HMRC?

It's a fair bet that the Kushy Witless discussion has all been about whether they and Trump get 1bn or 2bn each from the Russians if they succeed in this stitchup. Every EU country, plus, UK, needs to go to UN to censure this action. Then they need to tell US that trade will cease if they do this.

We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'

Crikey, what to think? When your parents die you receive a massive bung of income - let's be honest. The amount you can get if the house is passed to you is a million quid. I'd like the gov to tell me it's OK, and I don't need to pay 1p on my next 1m pay! PAY TAX!
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Yep. I am in the process of selling a second house and I will pay CGT. This IS income, so the rate should be the same as my prevailing income tax rate, it's just weird really that there is also an allowance against CGT (though it has been reducing).

My bedtime reading, is a mega long post on Xitter from Estonia's former Intel chief.

@eeriknkross.bsky.social worked out the "DimWit" surrender plan contains 150% more violations than points drawn up by Dmitriev.. sorry, I mean the White House.. or maybe not!

Sorry it's too long to screenshot all

Trumpty Dumpty is again bullying Ukraine into surrender, according to Reuters.

Trump is a real threat to the world order, to peace for his people & all of Europe

To back genocidal war criminals over a democracy is against every single thing the US & its constitution stands for

Comment is Freed is one of the best value subscriptions out there. Highly recommended.

The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.

I think this article neatly summarises just how little sense a lot of the 28 point proposal has. We will be waiting for a while for progress on it ... dum de dum ... da de da ...

samf.substack.com/p/the-witkof...