If there is a genuine security issue then state pays for his security, not gifts from an organisation lobbying against legislation Gov. is creating.
Took Sunak a fair time to get that unpopular, Starmer achieved being even more unpopular much much quicker.Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak, poll suggests
The latest Opinium poll reveals that Starmer’s approval rating has plunged below that of the Tory leader Rishi Sunak, suffering a huge 45-point drop since July. While 24% of voters approve of the job he is doing, 50% disapprove, giving him a net rating of -26%. Sunak’s net rating is one point better....
So for all his business acumen (as assumed by his fanboys) what has he achieved? He's demonstrated to the world that Governments can and do win when confronting him. He's lost a lot of business (given how users once moved elsewhere will not all move back). He's lost a lot of ad revenue. He's accumulated a load of fines.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/21/elon-musk-backs-down-in-his-fight-with-brazilian-judges-to-restore-x wrote:Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X
The platform agrees to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, pays fines and takes down user accounts that the court had ordered removed
This poster has also deleted posts and thread title from other unrelated uncontroversial threads - toys out of pram. Pity some people are like that but is such behaviour really an asset to the forum?Jdsk wrote: ↑17 Sep 2024, 4:29pmThanks for posting this.Corpulent_Porpoise wrote: ↑17 Sep 2024, 4:01pm I deleted my posts in the hope of restoring some harmony to the thread. It had never been my intention to derail it and I had accepted the consensus of my fellow forum users who didn't agree with my suggestion. That's fine, I have absolutely no issue with that.... My back was put up though by a moderator who appeared to want to prolong the debate I had indicated I wished to withdraw from. I sent him/her a DM explaining my position and added some family history where one of my siblings was hit by a lorry driver (I don't want to go into details publicly) and left with life-changing injuries. The DM was ignored and the mod instead chose to keep the derailment going publicly and, IMO, in a vaguely confrontational manner. I responded to their last post and they deleted it. As far as I'm concerned, that means they were posting in their capacity as a mod, not a general forum member (one of you correctly pointed out the difference, which I acknowledged).
I don't do 'flouncing' and silliness in public so I sent a polite but strongly worded DM. That was also ignored.
I've cycled all my life, though have had a long hiatus due to injury. I've kept abreast of news though and am increasingly concerned about draconian legislation that is heading our way for sure. That is one of the reasons I joined this forum and was going to become a paid-up member of an organisation that I've always believed represents our interests pretty well.
I have no doubt the mods do a good job, and probably a fairly thankless one at times. However, the behaviour of one of them I believe was shoddy and, since my DMs were ignored and the mods represent Cycling UK, I've decided to renew my membership of BC instead. I've decided to withdraw from the forum too - no need for 'airport' comments, this isn't a flounce, I just believe that this isn't the forum for me!
Happy pedalling to all of you :)
Corpulent Porpoise
Could we persuade you to stay and give us and Cycling UK a second chance?
And happy pedalling to you, whichever way you choose.
Jonathan
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I assume the phone would be using a hot spot to provide internet access to other devices. Assuming that is the case, normally that would mean:simonineaston wrote: ↑21 Sep 2024, 11:43am I’ve had great service/vfm from Hyperoptic with their fibre bb, straight into the comm.s room here at BF Towers, however price increases on a fixed income suggest I look for better value still… Does anyone have anything g to say on the subject of getting all their internet access via their phone?
The pollution per country data are daft in extreme. Such data is really just comparing pollution as split by various lines on a map created by history, war, geology, etc. To me the important data are "per person" not per country.Cugel wrote: ↑21 Sep 2024, 9:36amAn argument often made is that poor little Blighty generates only 1% of the climate change problem whilst others (those foreigners) generate larger percentages. So its up to "them" not "us". The 1% is something of a falsehood, as another remarks, since poor little Blighty imports all sorts from elsewhere that required polluting energy sources to make.roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑21 Sep 2024, 8:30amI think the title of the thread is "UK energy"...al_yrpal wrote: ↑21 Sep 2024, 8:21am As of January 2023, China had 3,092 operating coal-fired power plant units. China has the most coal-fired power plants in the world, and is responsible for over 50% of the world's coal electricity generation.
And, until recently they were commissioning 2 new ones a week.
Al
But the whole argument is irrelevant really. We can either be an individual problem-generator or an individual problem-solver. Well, in actuality, we can be both at the same time as problem-making and problem-generating are a matter of degree and problem-type. But we could weight the balance - are we generally, overall, on-balance trying to solve or make problems?
Most of us can contribute but a little to both problem-making and problem-solving. We aren't the heads of Huge Corporations or Prime Minsters, who could both do a great deal by changing policies and behaviours large-scale. Yet all we tiny polluters and strivers-for-green etcetera add up to produce large scale effects.
No one is absolved from being a problem-maker by pointing at a bigger one.
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Or look at the Knog Bike Tracker/Alarm. Device fits onto/under bottle cage and contains an Airtag as well as a motion detecting alarm. Alarm also controlled from iPhone.plancashire wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 10:46pm I have read three reports recently in our local paper, The Rheinische Post, about people who have had things stolen and have been able to tell the police where to find them, resulting in rapid recovery and apprehension of the thieves. In one case AirTags were specifically mentioned, in others only trackers and "high value" implying Apple. In some cases the things were stolen on a train. None of these were bikes, but the same principle would apply.
I have just ordered a set of four AirTags for my wife and myself. Two will go on our bikes. A recent software update makes it possible to share them and help each other find them.
He makes a big thing of how he "restructred" the CPS (which was actually big cuts. He's proud of what he did, though reality seems very different from his recollection. He pretty well lost the confidence of most staffTangled Metal wrote: ↑20 Sep 2024, 5:03pm Looking forward to seeing Starmer making some fresh mess ups going forward. I actually wonder if Corbyn might have ended up being a better PM somehow. I think Starmer should be a senior civil servant serving the wishes and vagueries of a true politician. I did hear a political reporter saying that Starmer was like a senior civil servant not a PM, which is exactly my view of him.
Other commentators were critical of the poor way he made the cuts looking only at the cost savings and as a result lost a low of crucial experience (can't find the links right now) but maybe that contributed to thehttps://web.archive.org/web/20230403203830/https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/cps-staff-sent-for-retraining-after-saying-service-is-badly-managed-6405983.html wrote:Only one in 14 believes that planned reforms will improve prosecution rates, while just one in 12 feels that "change is managed well" in the organisation. When senior CPS officials were told the results, it is understood that instead of speaking to staff they ordered "retraining" for them.
The embarrassing verdict by the CPS's own people ...
The sharpest criticism is reserved for CPS bosses. Just 21 per cent of staff believe the actions of Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, and his senior staff "are consistent with the CPS's values". Only 12 per cent believe "the organisation as a whole is managed well".
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Yet Starmer seems blind to it all often refering to the job he did at the CPS!https://web.archive.org/web/20230403203830/https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/cps-staff-sent-for-retraining-after-saying-service-is-badly-managed-6405983.html wrote:...
Prosecutors dropped tens of thousands of criminal cases in 2007, despite having enough evidence to bring offenders to court. The CPS halted action against more than 25,000 defendants because it was not in the "public interest" to continue. More than 2,000 cases destined for crown court were also thrown out because it failed to get files ready in time.
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