reesmf.bsky.social
Born in Leeds, raised in Weymouth and now settled in Ham straddling the Kingston/Richmond border in SW London. I love walking, theatre, architecture, politics, radio drama, pubs and reading comics.
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We keep being told that we need to boost military spending to help support our allies but they won’t tell us who our allies are?!
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Whenever someone tells me how great AI is going to be at everything I simply mention text autocorrect.
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Happy to endorse this habit. I have all of them and inhabit circles where we discuss the attributes of the various printings.
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It proves exactly the opposite. In three years Russia has made next to no progress in Ukraine, on the far side of Europe, so they are clearly no threat to us.
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We’re not engaged in the European land war so why mention it? We are, illegally, engaged with Israel’s wars on its neighbours and it is right to protest that.
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If you’re scared of red paint and peace slogans then that really is your problem.
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Can’t quite make it out but my arm is in there somewhere! Another truly excellent show from @sparksofficial.bsky.social, and yes I was there in ‘72 when Woofer came out (John Peel did the introductions).
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How do you think the west became Christian?
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No, heavy lifting is when you stretch a point beyond creditability. It's like saying we should give Hitler credit for being a vegetarian and a painter and forget the troubling holocaust issues.
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"For all its flaws" is doing one hell of a lot of heavy lifting there.
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The unfathomable bigotry it takes for anyone anywhere to side with Israel at this time.
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Yes they have never been more successful but with Conservatives all but gone and Labour trying hard to follow them the Greens really should be doing an awful lot better.
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Iran are not the bad guys here. Israel gleefully bombs several neighbouring countries and all the west does is ask them not to retaliate. We must confront Israel.
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It’s not tanks and submarines that we need for this sort of “war”. Besides if, as you say, Russia has been doing this for a long time with zero success (the west has been more effective in destabilising Russia, e.g. our interference in Ukraine) then we really do have nothing to worry about.
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Not sure what his point is here, the only thing Millar has been “cancelled” for is poor content, e.g. Jupiter’s Legacy.
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Military people always big-up the need for more military. In this case Russia is clearly zero threat to Europe having made next to no progress in Ukraine in three years.
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That is a question that I often ask myself! Is it a formal policy set by people at the top, is it just accepted by BBC staff as part of the company culture, is external pressure being applied in some way?
Ditto their stance on issues like Gaza, China, etc.
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Had to turn BBC Radio Four off at lunchtime because they were doing yet another long piece on Farage. The BBC made him and now they want him in power.
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Those benefits sound good to me too, the problem is you get none of that when building on Greenbelt. What you do get are unnatural structures (it’s more than just panels), changes to the existing habitats and loss of access.
Generally the impacts of solar farms are well understood and documented.
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Minimal impact (even if true, e.g. no trees) is still an impact on the protected Greenbelt which there is no excuse for. Build them elsewhere.
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er… I walk through Greenbelt land regularly, London is surrounded by it!, and I am pretty sure that none of it looks anything like a solar farm.
You might not find Greenbelt land pleasant but nobody is forcing you to walk through it. Those of us that do and enjoy it want it kept as it is.
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One of the advantages of Greenbelt is that they are pleasant places to walk through; solar farms are not.
No idea why you went off-topic with “farmland”.
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I agree we cannot ignore climate change but that does not require us to destroy Greenbelt land in the process.
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Greenbelt is precious and should not be sacrificed for solar panels which can go almost anywhere.
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Excellent! It’s so funny because it’s so true. I speak as a reformed ex-listener of TRIP.
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Spot on. People, including several other commentators on this post, worry about how the young are being influenced and radicalised without realising it’s happening to everyone, including them. Farage’s popularity is just one example of this.
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The higher the better. London is still swamped by cars and anything that makes more space for other road users is a good thing to do. The zone should be much larger too because congestion is a wider problem.
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It’s overuses that I object to, e.g. we say that we are going to THE British Museum but to THE London. I always leave out unnecessary “the”s but it has yet to catch on!
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It’s not just unfinished houses that should be taken, unoccupied ones should be too. Vast numbers of London flats are left deliberately empty.
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The one that always comes to my mind is The Slade. I remember Janice Long playing them and commenting that surely nobody calls their band “The” anything anymore. Shortly afterwards they didn’t.
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And £101m is only part of the cost, the base needs to be equipped, manned and maintained too.
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Only £82k?! We gave away £500k to enable our two boys to buy basic flats in London. Glad we could help them but angry that we had to. Housing should be a public service like education and health.