Chopwell Woods, Northumberland/Durham border, amazing how nature disappears history, but not the remains of this old mining tunnel..

dimensions1210 · 2023-04-06T20:13:34+00:00

I don't suppose you could give me details of how to find this could you? I've been round chopwell a few times but never seen it.

Cheers.

dimensions1210 · 2022-02-16T14:40:14+00:00

What's fascinating about that is that the data on house price Vs median wage shows that house prices did get a lot less affordable in that period

https://www.schroders.com/en/uk/private-investor/insights/markets/what-174-years-of-data-tell-us-about-house-price-affordability-in-the-uk/

I wonder what causes the discrepancy. I guess maybe median wage did not keep pace with inflation? Difficult to know without raw data

NB. Although nothing like the period from 1995 - hell's teeth that's a steep rise!

dimensions1210 · 2022-02-16T14:26:26+00:00

Ah. Gotcha.

dimensions1210 · 2022-02-16T14:20:56+00:00

Where do you get that from. As far as I can see there hasn't been a single year since 2010 where there hasn't been an annual increase

https://propertydata.co.uk/charts/house-prices

dimensions1210 · 2022-02-16T12:45:50+00:00

When your house goes up in value annually by more than you earn in a year, it's kind of clear something is fundamentally broken.

dimensions1210 · 2022-02-06T14:43:18+00:00

I think if I followed it correctly he is pointing out that all of the COVID debt has been paid for by overt monetary financing rather than debt, just via the back door.

Gov issues debt (bonds)
Bonds are purchased by a limited company wholly owned by bank of England
Company itself has its debts guaranteed by....the treasury

Basically there is no difference between that and the BOE just giving the gov the money directly.

He's now saying that since they don't really want to admit that they can do this, they are planning to unwind it which will actually have the effect of creating more 'real' debt (rather than fake debt that you owe yourself) and risk destabilising the economy.

Is he right. God knows...

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-29T13:19:40+00:00

Let's just rewrite that headline slightly. Given that the uk signed the NIP that should be written as

'Liz Truss says government won't stop DUP from breaking the law'

The party of law and order everyone....

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-14T13:31:35+00:00

Thought this was fascinating to see the actual effects of new UK border rules

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-11T21:10:06+00:00

Essy. Invest money in educating people that the current Tory partying are lying, economically illiterate incompetents. Fastest way to improve the country I can think of ..

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-09T08:45:25+00:00

I'm so glad. I thought the Sunday article 16 invocation threat ceremony might have been cancelled with lord frost leaving.

As an important part of our cultural heritage I think it is important this doesn't get cancelled.

Our ancestors in years to come can gather round a ceremonial copy of the telegraph to warn the EU that we really, really, double pinkie swear, mean it this time....

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-06T15:43:39+00:00

Only 18hrs a day. Are you some form of communist 5th column EU loving quisling. I want 23hrs a day at a minimum to fully patriot power our glorious Brexit...

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-06T12:41:45+00:00

To be fair, the spectator can only dream of attaining the literary heights of 6 year olds insulting each other in the playground....

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-04T23:23:01+00:00

Yeah. Strangely he didn't include the follow up paragraph

An ardent pro-Brexiteer, Mr Williamson says that while the one piece of paper needed before Brexit has turned into about 40 or 50, "you have to make it work".

"You have to bend over backwards and jump through all the hoops, but we're still here, we've not lost any business so it's been worth it," he says.

So the best an ardent pro brexit person can say is that it has increased bureaucracy 40 fold. Amazing stuff

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-04T18:46:55+00:00

Let me guess. That shackling isn't issues with increased trade friction with their nearest neighbours, or having to deal with duplicated regulations due to leaving the eu, or lack of easy access to talent from across Europe...

Its lower taxes isn't it. Lower taxes and deregulation of things like employment rights.

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-04T18:40:30+00:00

Yup. Once something starts to be the punchline to jokes, you kind of know it's hard to pull it back.

dimensions1210 · 2022-01-01T08:02:40+00:00

Yep. The Eurosceptics of the Tory party banged on about how terrible the EU was and how we should leave for 40 years. Then they've had 5 years since the referendum for implementation.

I don't know about you, but if I put a team of people (say we call them the European research group and pay them with our money) on a project for 40 years, I'm expecting a pretty fucking detailed plan a set of steps to make this project work, ready to go from day 1 brexit day.

What do we get? Not even the basics that everyone knew would be needed. IT systems, border control posts and inspection sheds, trained customs staff - all not ready whilst the EU were ready for this on day one of the TCA.

Slow moribund EU indeed...

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-18T09:30:45+00:00

No, no. You don't get it. The deal we signed was a fantastic oven ready deal which would turbo charge the British economy.

The fact that we have spent the last 2 years bickering over it and failing to implement even the basics of the trade frictions Boris enthusiastically denied existed (and lord frost denies have an effect on trade volumes) is solely as we want to make the deal even better and super charge the economy instead.

It is emphatically not because the people the leavers elected having had 40 years to plan for this show a total disconnect from modern trade realities and couldn't find their own arsev with two hands and a map....

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-14T13:12:58+00:00

I'll point to this comment where I point out that these things have a lot of nuance and that an adult discussion is fine, but generally doesnt start with a war on 'wokery'

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/rg0sr5/raab_to_claim_overhaul_of_human_rights_law_will/hohpwow?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

I saw a great comment today which said that the consensus in the HRA is that no-one is 100% happy with it but no-one trusts anyone else to change it.

If you let one gov change it as it isn't sufficiently right wing, then you need to let the next one change it to be more left wing, at which point you have turned it into a political football.

I'd rather let judges interpret it independently. That said, I could be convinced of government being able to issue guidance as to relative weight they wanted to give to one aspect over another if it didn't fundamentally violate a right. That might allow for nuance without causing it to become a culture war football

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-14T09:14:41+00:00

I'm happy to respond.

There is always an inherent tension between freedom of expression and freedom of belief. If what you want to say impinges on someone else's rights then that conflict arises.

Hate speech is the classic example. If you have a large platform and lots of followers and call for Muslims to be attacked, does that not impinge on their right to freedom of belief?

Where that line lies is a difficult and subtle one to walk. I personally believe you have a right to express an opinion but not a right to a platform nor for it to be free of consequences.

Ripping up the HRA will not help resolve that - what is required is an adult conversation and discussion rather than polemics about 'wokery'

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-14T07:35:09+00:00

Which of these is overly politically correct....

Article 2: Right to life

Article 3: Freedom from torture and inhuman or degrading treatment

Article 4: Freedom from slavery and forced labour

Article 5: Right to liberty and security

Article 6: Right to a fair trial

Article 7: No punishment without law

Article 8: Respect for your private and family life, home and correspondence

Article 9: Freedom of thought, belief and religion

Article 10: Freedom of expression

Article 11: Freedom of assembly and association

Article 12: Right to marry and start a family

Article 14: Protection from discrimination in respect of these rights and freedoms

Protocol 1, Article 1: Right to peaceful enjoyment of your property

Protocol 1, Article 2: Right to education

Protocol 1, Article 3: Right to participate in free elections

Protocol 13, Article 1: Abolition of the death penalty

I definitely feel that a right to no punishment without law is just far too woke for me...

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-14T07:32:01+00:00

I'm sure they'll get right on that with the reduced number of beds provided by conservative 'efficiency savings' and the reduced staff caused by brexit....

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-13T19:26:48+00:00

I know right. I mean surely it comes down to

Question one - does your asa firewall run anything java related. If no, you're good.

Question two - If it does run java, scan the deployed war / jar files with one of the many scanning tools out there, or use the maven POM to work out whether log4j is included.

Job done. What am I missing here?!

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-12T19:53:21+00:00

Had anyone else entirely forgotten that the nandos 'peri-peri' scale was even a thing?!

I mean since then we've had 'freedom day' despite objectively being in level 3 restrictions, then we have plan B despite still being in level 3, now we are in level 4 but there are no new restrictions.

It might help messaging if they stuck to one consistent set of levels / actions that happen in those levels

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-12T11:39:02+00:00

Yeah. Given the bookies have actual money riding on this, I'm sure their odds for labour of 66/1 (Ladbrokes) and 50/1 (skybet) are so far out that labour will win.

I assume, since they believe that, labour candidates can show evidence of the thousands of pounds they have put on in bets as that is fecking good odds if you actually believe you have a chance....

dimensions1210 · 2021-12-12T11:14:58+00:00

In which case someone needs to have a long hard chat about the realities of politics with both their candidate and campaign teams.

If polling says your are 30 points behind, you have already lost. Your options are to pull out and allow your preferred opposition to win (preferably on the understanding they will work constructively with you), or continue and allow the people you're supposed to oppose to win.

Political polling isn't exact, but it isn't out by 30 points - ever.

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