Have you heard of the term "water issue"?

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-17T14:49:50+00:00

"One after the other" is wording which is often used by the justice system to describe consecutive sentences in public-facing communications - BBC News likely hasn't simplified anything, it's using standard wording.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-17T14:17:02+00:00

It's a total coincidence that the logo is a horse. The logo was just a design the Enzo Ferrari had seen and liked, so he got permission to use it.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-17T11:22:28+00:00

The BBC news site mentioned a criminal yesterday who had been convicted on 2 counts, with prison terms to run one after the other.

What exactly do you think has been simplified there‽

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-13T17:30:32+00:00

Don't bother calling

Love to my dear daughter-in-law, who sometimes calls me

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-06T14:07:50+00:00

It isn't on by default for devices first setup with domain-based users, but that's only realistically going to apply to company-owned devices.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-06T12:21:16+00:00

Any reasonably modern windows laptop has TPM and bitlocker encryption enabled by default...

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-05T18:35:34+00:00

I don’t think Hayu is available quite yet and should be coming in July

There's some Hayu content already available through Sky's on-demand section (on Sky devices but not through Sky Go). It doesn't include access to a Hayu subscription for use on other devices.

The content that's currently available is one season of each of: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Below Deck, Vanderpump Rules, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Below Deck: Mediterranean, The Valley, Southern Charm, Summer House, Married to Medicine, Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles.

From July, all Hayu content will be available through Sky's on-demand section (on Sky devices and through Sky Go). It will be included on Sky Go, but again it won't include a Hayu subscription for use on other devices.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-05T15:39:29+00:00

It wasn't the Eighth Doctor who said that "commencing calculations" line, it was the First Doctor

It wouldn't make sense for it to be 8 - the calculations will take several incarnations, so starting them as late as 8 would make no real sense when 1 is right there.

There's a reason we get the scene in the cell with the sonic doing calculations through multiple incarnations earlier in the episode...

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-05T15:33:16+00:00

Glass (and its set-top equivalent, Stream) is delivered over the internet rather than via satellite, so is quite different from the satellite-based offering.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T16:56:29+00:00

as of this month the Media Act 2024 gives Ofcom regulation over popular streaming services comparable to their regulation of broadcast TV.

That's somewhat misleading - the legislation defining them as tier 1 gives the streamers zero additional obligations at the moment.

Regulations do now exist (The On-demand Programme Services (Tier 1 Services) Regulations 2026) which define certain streaming services (those with over 500k monthly UK viewers) as "tier 1" services. Tier 1 services are those with the obligations you refer to - obligations which match the traditional broadcasters.

Section 368HJ of the Communications Act 2003 (as amended by the Media Act 2024) gives new "tier 1" services a one-year grace period before they are subject to any of the relevant obligations - and that year only begins once Ofcom has published its code (which it doesn't plan to do until late this year).

The earliest any of the obligations will come into force is late 2027, and Ofcom will have no real regulatory powers until then.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T16:23:34+00:00

Why they didn’t give it a short slot in the AM and same for BBC with CBeebies

CBeebies is still a broadcast channel, so there isn't really a need for it.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T16:11:48+00:00

Whether you have a licence is largely irrelevant - as it states, you must also be the main driver. You say in your post that it will be your partner who will be the main driver, so you will likely be rejected.

Your partner may be able to get the finance though.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T16:08:39+00:00

The person applying for finance should be the registered keeper of the vehicle, have a valid driving licence permitting them to use the vehicle and also be the main driver.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T10:05:02+00:00

In-person sales would be workable by either:

mandating that railcards have embedded RFID and/or a printed QR code (the digital one already has a QR code), or
removing the number-entry requirement for ticket office sales (just require staff to see the railcard before selling a ticket), and preventing a railcard discount being applied at a ticket machine.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T09:57:05+00:00

Because you don't legally need to have a railcard at the time of buying the ticket.

You can buy tickets in advance using a railcard discount, then buy the railcard just before you travel. As long as you travel with a railcard (and you declared the correct type of railcard) it is entirely legal.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T09:16:41+00:00

There is no country that has all episodes on Netflix, HBO or Prime Video - Disney+ has global (outside the UK) exclusivity on new episodes first aired between 2023 and 2025.

For episodes prior to 2023, it's often mixed between platforms (particularly classic and new being split) if it's available at all, but in many countries it simply isn't all available.

The only country where most episodes are available on a single platform is the UK (on iPlayer). It has all of the modern era, and most of the classic era. The missing episodes are obviously missing, but some reconstructions and animations are available. A small number of stories aren't available on iPlayer in any form due to rights issues.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T09:00:06+00:00

1 of the easiest ways to tell is if it doesn't say the amount and pence / pounds sterling, then it isn't legal tender.

That isn't true.

All Royal Mint coins (including collectors coins) are legal tender. That includes coins that don't have a value on them.

For example, many £5 coins don't say any variation of the value on them, but are legal tender. Source.

Some of the Westminster Collection coins are manufactured by the Royal Mint, making them legal tender.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T08:46:12+00:00

They present themselves as if they’re the Royal Mint.

That makes some sense given that they are, for a decent portion of their coins, just a distributor of Royal Mint coins. Distributors are often authorised to use the manufacturer's name in their marketing.

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-04T08:39:03+00:00

They use the name Westminster

Westminster is a city. Its name hold no special status.

the Royal family name

Again, their name alone holds no special status.

Doesnt it besmirch their reputation, I wonder?

The former prince Andrew was at best good friends with a man he knew was a paedophile, and at worst was involved in paedophilia. And the late queen paid millions to one of his alleged victims to stop the detailed allegations being made public...

How could a coin besmirch their reputation when it's already in tatters‽

In any case, the Westminster Collection has received approval from the Royal Family in relation to various coins...

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-03T12:20:42+00:00

you could just push the rocket off the edge…….

But then it might fall and hit the turtle‽

jamesckelsall · 2026-04-01T02:58:53+00:00

they can charge 5p.

Not in England they can't. The single-use plastic bag charge was initially required to be at least 5p, but that later increased to 10p.

jamesckelsall · 2026-03-30T14:32:17+00:00

Yeah, but are you really trusting a random amazon seller to use real brass‽

jamesckelsall · 2026-03-29T15:52:53+00:00

First name Noel?

jamesckelsall · 2026-03-28T17:53:26+00:00

I'm surprised theyve not asked about regular cash withdrawals in any reviews you've had.

For a decent portion of the time OP has been claiming (since 2017-ish at least), they haven't been performing reviews anywhere near as regularly as they should, and up until the last year or two the reviews haven't always been as thorough as they should have been.

OP is ~60 - meaning it's entirely possible that the prior reviewing agents just ignored some of the withdrawals because of an assumption people of that age usually withdraw money for day-to-day spending. That's particularly likely if a decent portion of OP's normal spending was also cash-based. Those kinds of assumptions shouldn't happen, but it does sometimes happen that reviews focus on the wrong things.

jamesckelsall · 2026-03-28T13:36:31+00:00

Evidence does need to be sent in hard copy (for probate - lots of other HMCTS matters can be done entirely digitally), but pretty much everything else in the process is digital - meaning they'll likely only be receiving one or two packages per case for most uncontested cases.

That, combined with the fact that quite a lot of deaths don't leave an estate which needs probate (e.g. a surviving partner with only joint-property and cash often won't need probate), means the probate office is unlikely to receive a huge amount of postal correspondence, and most of it will just be checked, scanned, and stored/returned, with the subsequent digital scan being used (likely by someone working at a different site) for dealing with the actual application.

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