James
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But anything he says may be used in evidence against him.
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
But anything he says may be used in evidence against him.
And it was very necessary on that Southern Region maze of lines, where almost every train looked alike (unless you could spot the minor differences, and even then you couldn't be sure what was on which service), and there could be just minutes between them.
December 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And it was very necessary on that Southern Region maze of lines, where almost every train looked alike (unless you could spot the minor differences, and even then you couldn't be sure what was on which service), and there could be just minutes between them.
From a constitutional coherency point of view, um, nobody has a policy for the Lords that is both coherent and popular.
December 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
From a constitutional coherency point of view, um, nobody has a policy for the Lords that is both coherent and popular.
From an anti-Reform point of view, he doesn't want to give them the slogan "Protect the Church of England!"
Again, not that the CoE are at all happy with the racist stuff the right wing are spewing. They just don't want to get into party politics.
Again, not that the CoE are at all happy with the racist stuff the right wing are spewing. They just don't want to get into party politics.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
From an anti-Reform point of view, he doesn't want to give them the slogan "Protect the Church of England!"
Again, not that the CoE are at all happy with the racist stuff the right wing are spewing. They just don't want to get into party politics.
Again, not that the CoE are at all happy with the racist stuff the right wing are spewing. They just don't want to get into party politics.
From a popularity point of view, I don't think he wants to take on the Church. He's got enough people upset with him. (Not that I think the CofE would object too strenuously).
December 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
From a popularity point of view, I don't think he wants to take on the Church. He's got enough people upset with him. (Not that I think the CofE would object too strenuously).
From a gerrymandering point of view, retaining the bishops makes sense for when Labour is in opposition: they can normally be counted on to be somewhat to the left of, um, the current PM.
December 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
From a gerrymandering point of view, retaining the bishops makes sense for when Labour is in opposition: they can normally be counted on to be somewhat to the left of, um, the current PM.
I think the point is not that everything has to justify its existence through profit. It's that AI has to justify its existence through profit, because goodness knows it can't do so any other way.
December 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I think the point is not that everything has to justify its existence through profit. It's that AI has to justify its existence through profit, because goodness knows it can't do so any other way.
I'm really not sure about a FF6 remake. I have a nightmare vision of the genocides being shown in the lavish 3D Final Fantasy cutscene style, and it's not something I want to watch. But it wouldn't be FF6 without them.
I'm not sure Kefka would be in the least bit funny after seeing them.
I'm not sure Kefka would be in the least bit funny after seeing them.
December 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I'm really not sure about a FF6 remake. I have a nightmare vision of the genocides being shown in the lavish 3D Final Fantasy cutscene style, and it's not something I want to watch. But it wouldn't be FF6 without them.
I'm not sure Kefka would be in the least bit funny after seeing them.
I'm not sure Kefka would be in the least bit funny after seeing them.
But does it have anything to do with the song "Who killed Cock Robin?"
December 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
But does it have anything to do with the song "Who killed Cock Robin?"
Unlike last time, when the British did it.
Erm, British+media ... BBC!
You might be on to something.
Erm, British+media ... BBC!
You might be on to something.
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Unlike last time, when the British did it.
Erm, British+media ... BBC!
You might be on to something.
Erm, British+media ... BBC!
You might be on to something.
The words have the same schmaltzy feel as a lot of words in Stainer's "Crucifixion", so...
December 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The words have the same schmaltzy feel as a lot of words in Stainer's "Crucifixion", so...
I try not to listen to him but historically, I understand he's been a fairly compelling public speaker, even if the words bear no more than a passing resemblance to the truth?
If that's no longer so, the idea that he's deteriorating might start getting traction outside left-wing politics.
If that's no longer so, the idea that he's deteriorating might start getting traction outside left-wing politics.
December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I try not to listen to him but historically, I understand he's been a fairly compelling public speaker, even if the words bear no more than a passing resemblance to the truth?
If that's no longer so, the idea that he's deteriorating might start getting traction outside left-wing politics.
If that's no longer so, the idea that he's deteriorating might start getting traction outside left-wing politics.
I thoroughly deplore the absence of the "complex AND wrong" category.
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I thoroughly deplore the absence of the "complex AND wrong" category.
Or in churches - I used to use one as an organist to discreetly check when it was time to start playing. I certainly wasn't walled up!
That one was built because the chancel was narrower than the nave, so you couldn't see the high altar from all of the church.
That one was built because the chancel was narrower than the nave, so you couldn't see the high altar from all of the church.
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Or in churches - I used to use one as an organist to discreetly check when it was time to start playing. I certainly wasn't walled up!
That one was built because the chancel was narrower than the nave, so you couldn't see the high altar from all of the church.
That one was built because the chancel was narrower than the nave, so you couldn't see the high altar from all of the church.
But then, it's possible I'm reading a different story to a lot of people. I can't understand how people ship Edmund and Mary Crawford when Austen makes it so clear Mary does not understand what being a clergyman (or clergy wife) entails, and the marriage is a recipe for heartbreak for Edmund.
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
But then, it's possible I'm reading a different story to a lot of people. I can't understand how people ship Edmund and Mary Crawford when Austen makes it so clear Mary does not understand what being a clergyman (or clergy wife) entails, and the marriage is a recipe for heartbreak for Edmund.
Mansfield Park shews what she expects of a clergyman when Edmund talks about how he would expect to live alongside his congregation, get to know them and shew himself their friend.
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Mansfield Park shews what she expects of a clergyman when Edmund talks about how he would expect to live alongside his congregation, get to know them and shew himself their friend.
I'm thinking about Mansfield Park, and the way Austen subtly skewered almost everyone, shewing how socially-acceptable behaviour lead to scandal and heartbreak.
It's possible she was hard on the clergy because she was upset with clergy who didn't do their jobs properly, and found she had a pulpit.
It's possible she was hard on the clergy because she was upset with clergy who didn't do their jobs properly, and found she had a pulpit.
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm thinking about Mansfield Park, and the way Austen subtly skewered almost everyone, shewing how socially-acceptable behaviour lead to scandal and heartbreak.
It's possible she was hard on the clergy because she was upset with clergy who didn't do their jobs properly, and found she had a pulpit.
It's possible she was hard on the clergy because she was upset with clergy who didn't do their jobs properly, and found she had a pulpit.
Pity the option to switch to OS maps has been coming and going recently 🥺
December 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Pity the option to switch to OS maps has been coming and going recently 🥺
Might be worth testing again: Google search quality has gone way down. I find Google better (but not as good as I'd expect) for highly specific search terms that are only found in a few pages, but DuckDuckGo about as good or better on more general searches.
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Might be worth testing again: Google search quality has gone way down. I find Google better (but not as good as I'd expect) for highly specific search terms that are only found in a few pages, but DuckDuckGo about as good or better on more general searches.
For me, this shows why Microsoft lost the mobile OS war: MS of the 80s or 90s would have licensed them for Windows Mobile and advertised "Mapping with real maps". The fact they didn't shows the difference between an MS that made Windows and Office default monopolies and an MS that bungled mobile.
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
For me, this shows why Microsoft lost the mobile OS war: MS of the 80s or 90s would have licensed them for Windows Mobile and advertised "Mapping with real maps". The fact they didn't shows the difference between an MS that made Windows and Office default monopolies and an MS that bungled mobile.
I have to disagree. Bing Maps in the UK have the license to show proper Ordnance Survey maps as an option on desktop. They are so much nicer and more reliable than Google "we won't let you update our maps if reality doesn't conform to our ideas" Maps.
December 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I have to disagree. Bing Maps in the UK have the license to show proper Ordnance Survey maps as an option on desktop. They are so much nicer and more reliable than Google "we won't let you update our maps if reality doesn't conform to our ideas" Maps.
I have heard someone complaining about the amount of water that agriculture uses.
Fortunately, he was the CEO of one of the major tractor manufacturers, and he was talking about how the company is developing technology to produce more food with less water and other resources (fertilizer, etc).
Fortunately, he was the CEO of one of the major tractor manufacturers, and he was talking about how the company is developing technology to produce more food with less water and other resources (fertilizer, etc).
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I have heard someone complaining about the amount of water that agriculture uses.
Fortunately, he was the CEO of one of the major tractor manufacturers, and he was talking about how the company is developing technology to produce more food with less water and other resources (fertilizer, etc).
Fortunately, he was the CEO of one of the major tractor manufacturers, and he was talking about how the company is developing technology to produce more food with less water and other resources (fertilizer, etc).
Of course, a thousand years ago you would have been in a cathedral city...
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Of course, a thousand years ago you would have been in a cathedral city...
It's always possible she thinks this *is* "late in a presidential term", and Trump's health isn't as good as is officially portrayed.
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's always possible she thinks this *is* "late in a presidential term", and Trump's health isn't as good as is officially portrayed.
Well, it wasn't the first one: www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandM...
Still largely in force in the UK. This provision is occasionally cited:
"That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament."
Still largely in force in the UK. This provision is occasionally cited:
"That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament."
Bill of Rights [1688]
An Act declareing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Setleing the Succession of the Crowne.
www.legislation.gov.uk
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Well, it wasn't the first one: www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandM...
Still largely in force in the UK. This provision is occasionally cited:
"That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament."
Still largely in force in the UK. This provision is occasionally cited:
"That the Freedome of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parlyament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parlyament."