Brexit, for once some facts.
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I think that you can't just burn coal in a gas burner!
But something like coal gasification has some potential - if you don't mind the pollution.
Really Woosh?. Its one thing to take a coal fired station out of mothballs, but gas fired cannot be retrofitted with coal. At the simplest ,it means laying on railway tracks ...
I considered the point about the Queen JetSkiiing was a little OTT, but why not the hottub?.
Though in Belgorod they might have to consider switching from oil to gas!
Unfortunately this doesn't seem very April fools dayAs we have reach midday:
San Serriffe is a fictional island nation invented for April Fools' Day 1977, by Britain's Guardian newspaper.
The story in the paper:
Tory MPs lobby No 10 to let royal family use seized Russian superyacht
MoD officials exploring legal challenges but Boris Johnson ‘full steam ahead’ with proposalwww.theguardian.com
Prince Andrew ‘repaid £750,000 to Turkish millionairess over passport scam’
The Duke of York has been named in a ruling on a High Court case featuring a Turkish millionairess.
metro.co.uk
I really didn't get the full picture of why anyone shuffled 750,00 around and why PA was involved.Unfortunately this doesn't seem very April fools day
Prince Andrew ‘repaid £750,000 to Turkish millionairess over passport scam’
The Duke of York has been named in a ruling on a High Court case featuring a Turkish millionairess.
some 120 old coal fire power stations got converted to gas, so it should be easy to convert them back to use coal, don't you think?
Even to reopen any closed coal power stations take many months for their furnaces to have their firebricking removed to be rebuilt and fired to be ready for use.
We could pause the current coal closure plans of the remaining four coal burning locations. One is due to shut down in September with the other three to follow at later dates not yet fixed.
It seems under current law all our coal burning stations have to be closed by the end of October 2024.
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why did you have a problem with my factual statement that it is standard procedure?
It is not judgemental, simply a statement of fact. and considering the risks involved in not doing it would frankly a very bad idea.
As to use of the word hypocrisy, usually enemies deserve all the criticism they get as the morale of your own side is just a tad more important than upsetting an enemies feelings.
As I understand it was all entirely above board and reasonable and dare I say a wonderful example of the altruism and selfless unacknowledged (well, untill recently) sacrifice of our andy (allegedly helping a wife of an mp leaving Turkey in a hurry with 50 million quid to get a passport to get into the uk). It illustrates how much were not a dodgy enclave subsisting on money laundering tax evasion and funny Russian money.
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Well that's your MBE scuppered !
Though I suspect that, like me, you'd refuse any such "honour".
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As of today, Scotrail is now nationalised, back in public ownership after Dutch company Abelio had it's contract ended three years early.
This follows Northern Rail being nationalised by Grant Shapps and confirmation that Eastern Rail will continue to be run by the government, who are also running Southern Rail at present due to the incompetence of that company.
With the entire infrastructure for the trains to run on already nationalised as Network Rail, it would seem sensible to bring the whole lot back into public ownership, since the private sector has made such an expensive mess of trying to run any of it.
Yet still the Tories hang onto their privatisation dream. Called Great British Railways and succeeding Network Rail, it's still intended to run with private partners contracted to run the trains and anything else it can shift into the private sector. It seems they will never learn.
The one small bright spot is that the new company will be modelled on Transport for London (TfL) which is a successful operation, but I doubt our national rail network compares with London's very different transport mix, compact area and available money:
en.wikipedia.org
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This follows Northern Rail being nationalised by Grant Shapps and confirmation that Eastern Rail will continue to be run by the government, who are also running Southern Rail at present due to the incompetence of that company.
With the entire infrastructure for the trains to run on already nationalised as Network Rail, it would seem sensible to bring the whole lot back into public ownership, since the private sector has made such an expensive mess of trying to run any of it.
Yet still the Tories hang onto their privatisation dream. Called Great British Railways and succeeding Network Rail, it's still intended to run with private partners contracted to run the trains and anything else it can shift into the private sector. It seems they will never learn.
The one small bright spot is that the new company will be modelled on Transport for London (TfL) which is a successful operation, but I doubt our national rail network compares with London's very different transport mix, compact area and available money:
Great British Railways - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Yesterday, there was extremely widespread reporting of the possibility that Putin has thyroid cancer. Seems he is more or less permanently accompanied by a thyroid surgeon and an ENT expert as well as many, many occasions there have been cancer experts. Suggested it is terminal.
Most thyroid cancer is not terminal, at least in the shorter term, but some are - and very difficult to treat well.
Excess, or too little, thyroid hormone can have a huge impact on mental processing. People who are hyperthyroid can be very aggressive, angry, intolerant. Those who are hypothyroid can become depressed, have off-the-scale anxiety, and difficulty in what used to be called mentation.
Add onto that, steroids are frequently used in the treatment of cancers. I think we can expect Putin to put enormous pressure on any attending medics to treat him as he decides - so the whole approach to his treatment could diverge from what we would usually see if we checked the medical textbooks.
Steroid rage plus potentially severe thyroid hormone impact - which could even swing between hyper and hypo day by day - can result in very difficult to predict behaviour.
Mind, do we believe any of this? How much is fake, manipulated "news", how much factual?
Most thyroid cancer is not terminal, at least in the shorter term, but some are - and very difficult to treat well.
Excess, or too little, thyroid hormone can have a huge impact on mental processing. People who are hyperthyroid can be very aggressive, angry, intolerant. Those who are hypothyroid can become depressed, have off-the-scale anxiety, and difficulty in what used to be called mentation.
Add onto that, steroids are frequently used in the treatment of cancers. I think we can expect Putin to put enormous pressure on any attending medics to treat him as he decides - so the whole approach to his treatment could diverge from what we would usually see if we checked the medical textbooks.
Steroid rage plus potentially severe thyroid hormone impact - which could even swing between hyper and hypo day by day - can result in very difficult to predict behaviour.
Mind, do we believe any of this? How much is fake, manipulated "news", how much factual?
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He may have cancer, I don't know but l don't believe that has much influenced his decision to invade Ukraine. He's prepared Russia for war with the West at least since Ukraine failed to implement the Minks protocol.
In my experience people who contract terminal cancer of any kind sometimes react in any of these ways due to the frustration of being able to doing anything about their situation.
Very dodgy I'd say, this is the second wave of stories about Putin and cancer. I think wishful thinking is probably more responsible than facts.
Patience called for I think. Russia will pull out of most of Ukraine long before Putin dies of any illness. They are consolidating the land north of Mariupol to give themselves a wide enough corridor to easily defend their access from Russia direct to Crimea and have almost achieved that and total control of Mariupol already.
The only remaining question is, will they attempt to take Odessa? With their fleet standing just offshore and its hugely expanded missile capability, reported on in the last year by our United Services Institute, they may well try.
A massive cruise missiles and shelling assault from the sea, then the land force, newly reinforced from the northern withdrawals, moving in would seem a likely tactic.
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Rumours of him having cancer go back to 2014.
On that basis, he could have been treated then and survived this long due to surgery and ongoing treatment.
Cancer locations seem to have gone round bowel, pancreas, spinal cord as well as thyroid - and, unless due to metastasis, they can't all be right.
I'm certainly not believing it. But nor am I dismissing it all. He does look very different.
The ship that was destroyed was probably an uncomfortable reminder of unpleasant possibilities to the Russian navy.