OneGuyFromBarlick

PS The Royal balcony looks very sparse this year, and likey to get 'sparserer'. No close up shots, little enthusiasm from the gang, and the 'RAF' fly past is derisory. Just learned that they are using bio- fuel. That seems to be then most noteworthy feature of the event. The game's up chaps. . . . ...

I hope you've al listened to this superb new episode of Radio 4's `The Food Programme'. We remember him from attending his lectures and publishing some of his papers in the 1990s onwards... `Professor Michael Crawford: A Life through Food' LINK to podcast In this episode of 'A Life Through Food', Sh...

Apologies for the length of this but I couldn't stop writing!.. I'm saddened this morning to read of the death of a wonderful man I knew well in the 1970s. I'm glad that BBC News saw fit to report his death on their main page today: `'Intellectual giant' Sir Geoff Palmer dies aged 85' LINK The BBC l...

This has me puzzled. Perhaps I don't get out enough! :smile: `David Walliams Nazi salute unacceptable, BBC says' BBC News I won't waste space explaining about the news item, you can get the details from the article. But what I don't understand is why everybody seems to be attacking Walliams with suc...

Stanley wrote: ↑11 Jun 2025, 01:52 Has anyone got any experience of this problem?

Not me, I've never encountered it.

By the way, I see there are stories in the press saying BT is hoping to take over Talktalk.

The trouble and escalation part is right but the object is for Trump to show himself as being tough and to make Gavin Newsom (who may be the Democrats next choice for their leader) appear weak. He's wrongly applying Federal actions which are meant to be used only when the nation is in great danger.

We all know AI bots are not always accurate but it's causing more problems now because people are using AI to tell them whether news images are genuine or not. California Governor Gavin Newsom posted two images on Monday, which he said showed the National Guard troops sent to LA were "being for...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has said the activity on the LA streets at the time Trump ordered in the National Guard was no more of a problem than when there's a big football match on and his police are always able to deal with that. It only really got out of hand when the National Guard troops ...

The government has said it is also investing in building small nuclear reactors as mentioned in this article...
`How does nuclear power work and why is the UK investing more money in it?' LINK

I strongly recommend listening to at least the last part of the latest episode of the World Service's`Science In Action' radio programme entitled `Potential fungal 'Agroterror'?'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yfd LINK It consists of 4 parts, the first about the FBI accusing Chinese terroris...

I have just uprooted the large weeds. No sign of the wild flowers Peter sent me.... Those large leafy plants (perhaps `Lads Love', Artemisia abrotanum ) will have been preventing the growth of smaller species such as the Bird's-Foot-Trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus ) seed that I sent you. That has smal...

Jan Egeland, the veteran head of the Norwegian Refugee Council and former UN humanitarian chief, speaking to Jeremy Bowen about Gaza and Israel... "I'm shaken to my core. I haven't seen a population like this being so trapped for such a long period of time in such a small, besieged area. Indisc...

This parasite was first identified by Edward Tyzzer (no relation to me!) in 1907 and came to wider notice in the 1970s as a cause of bovine diarrhoea. It's been in and out of the news in recent decades but now is more common as a result of increasing popularity of visits to farms, especially by chil...

Stanley wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025, 02:27 When do ordinary Israelis pour out on to the streets in protest?

Not when they fear that far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and his gang will call them traitors and come after them.

I heard a reporter say this this morning but can't find the source. China says that the US is exposed as the main reason the Gaza conflict hasn't been ended by the United Nations. I think that China is probably right...... How ironic that the Israeli government and Israeli Defence Forces are themse...

The scale of this cocaine operation is mind-boggling and very high-tech... `Raids across Canary Islands in major cocaine gang bust' LINK `A major cocaine smuggling operation that used a network of speedboats to transport drugs from South America to the Canary Islands has been taken down, police have...

While reading an article from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) I saw this: China has long sought a role securing peace in and rebuilding Ukraine. It is reportedly redeveloping Russian-occupied territories, and is eagerly working to replace the US as the world’s diplomatic force, a challeng...

Mrs Tiz spent one hour and 40 minutes in the dentist's chair this afternoon as part of work on a molar that needs a crown but they say now also needs root canal treatment - it was worse than they expected and she now has future appointments for all the work. And the cost of all this? (Sit down firs...

This reminded me of David Stirling's small force of men in cut-down Jeeps armed with Vickers machine guns destroying about 40 aircraft in one night at three different airfields in WW2 in the North African desert... `Ukraine's audacious drone attack sends critical message to Russia - and the West' LI...

Ahhh!
`Orphaned kittens saved by Royal Navy sailors' BBC

See THIS report as well Updated 49 minutes ago A US federal court has blocked President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, in a major blow to a key part of his economic policies. The Court of International Trade ruled that an emergency law invoked by the White House does not give the president unilat...

`Glacier collapse swallows part of Swiss village' Short BBC video

`The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine' LINK ....In an ever-evolving conflict, soldiers have had to rapidly adapt to new threats posed by changing technology. And the latest threat comes from fibre optic drones. A spool of tens of kilometres of cable is fitted to the bottom of a dron...

The Musk-Trump romance was barmy and doomed to end quickly. Musk makes electric vehicles; Trump supports diesel vehicles. Musk wants to be best friends with China to sell even more of his cars there; Trump wants to slap China with tariffs and crash its economy; Musk wants to win the space race by co...