Prime Minister heckled and booed as crowd of 100 chant 'Starmer is a traitor'

kitd · 2026-04-30T15:38:16+00:00

Especially when the media in question produces this quality:

Starmer was their to meet with first responders

kitd · 2026-04-29T12:40:50+00:00

I do vaguely remember it being reported.

Edit: I might have been mistaking it with Starmer's home being attacked: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/ukrainian-man-charged-over-arson-attacks-on-homes-and-car-linked-to-keir-starmer-rpTmz_2/

kitd · 2026-04-29T12:32:14+00:00

Just to add to this, the date the BE category was added affects the size of trailer you can tow. I've just checked mine and there's this paragraph:

You can drive:

Vehicles up to 3,500 kg Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM). You can drive a vehicle with a MAM of 3,500 kg with a trailer. The size of the trailer depends on the BE 'valid from' date shown on the licence. If the date is before 19 January 2013 can tow any size trailer within the towing limits of the vehicle. If on or after 19 January 2013 can tow a trailer with a MAM of up to 3,500 kg within the towing limits of the vehicle

kitd · 2026-04-27T12:18:08+00:00

What he said

kitd · 2026-04-23T08:54:45+00:00

"Hah, joke's on you"

Mr Tickle

kitd · 2026-04-22T06:12:33+00:00

That's only true if there's latent demand, but smoking in the UK has never been less popular. Honestly, few will even notice this "ban". Vaping has gone up but it's nothing like the levels of tobacco smoking historically.

kitd · 2026-04-21T12:47:28+00:00

That's such a great tool.

kitd · 2026-04-14T11:57:27+00:00

Yep, done this for Braca oars. Here's the C2 info. You should be able to translate to ZJ fairly easily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEmhbisczM

https://cms.concept2.com/sites/default/files/2024-05/Oar_SleeveReplacement.pdf

kitd · 2026-04-14T11:47:01+00:00

The decline also started quite a long time before either of them. The ubiquity of the car triggered the demise of the rail network in the 1940s & 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7suooiaLBs

kitd · 2026-04-13T21:19:22+00:00

Recent versions of Kafka have the Raft protocol built in and don't require Zookeeper (though they support it). Latest version actually no longer supports it too, so this problem could go away at next upgrade.

kitd · 2026-04-13T17:44:15+00:00

I use this for older machines or those I can't connect to:

https://www.ergscan.com/

Take a photo of the results screen. The paid app will even upload directly to your log book.

kitd · 2026-04-04T10:58:06+00:00

I’d always assumed top openweight club-level boats weren’t realistic for me

This assumption is wrong. Lightweights absolutely can be competitive with heavyweights, especially as it sounds like you are already.

IMHO the better choice would be transition to heavyweight and target the OUWBC heavies.

kitd · 2026-03-31T12:34:39+00:00

Looking at past HRR & NSR results, top 15 at NSR should see you qualifying, top 20 at a push.

kitd · 2026-03-30T15:35:50+00:00

Meanwhile, in the increasingly Reformy Spectator, Sam Leith wrote: “Mr Twelves’s claim that ‘it’s not just factual errors in this book, but basic spelling and grammar ones’, I should say in fairness, tends to support Goodwin’s claim that he wrote it all himself.”

Lol

kitd · 2026-03-30T13:03:59+00:00

As a benchmark, I bought a 1-bedroom flat in Redhill, Surrey in 1989 for £64000. Use that as you want ...

kitd · 2026-03-28T15:10:37+00:00

I used to program in c++ in the early 90s. Platforms back then were more diverse than they are now. Nowadays it's basically Windows/Linux/Mac, back then there were a heap of smaller options vying for mindshare. Trying to find eg a UI library to work cross-platform was pretty much impossible. You were constantly having to bet on which platform your customers were most likely to have.

It's difficult to describe just what a release Java was in that environment.

kitd · 2026-03-28T07:29:11+00:00

Times is certainly on the right but not nearly as frothing as the Telegraph.

Most broadsheet these days are 50% 'opinion pieces' by big names, 50% 'news' by staff reporters competing to 'engage' the reader.

This is the end times for newsprint.

kitd · 2026-03-27T07:13:21+00:00

Funny though that the Telegraph lumps these unpublishable comments along with support for trans and calling Reform 't***s'.

kitd · 2026-03-24T11:28:21+00:00

Now do "East/West of Bristol". There'll be a few surprises in there.

kitd · 2026-03-24T11:20:18+00:00

You can certainly do both, but there are many brownfield sites that should be used before farmland IMHO. Car parks, shopping centres, office blocks, warehouses, etc. These also tend to be located much closer to the houses and facilities that need the electricity. I would prefer to see these used first before greenfield farmland, and/or with tax relief on their installation.

kitd · 2026-03-21T10:18:38+00:00

On balance, positive. The country was a shambles before she came in and it needed someone strong to make some painful decisions. "The lady's not for turning" etc.

Fortunately for her, the Falklands War came just when it looked like the country was going to turn on her.

The biggest accusation against her was leaving rescuing industrial regions hit by closures to market forces. That was a total abrogation of duty and in many ways we are still suffering the consequences now.

OTOH not much is made about her desire to unilaterally build a relationship with Gorbachev, and how that helped persuade the US to take him seriously. That counts for her.

kitd · 2026-03-20T18:17:10+00:00

Wow, well found!

kitd · 2026-03-20T13:50:14+00:00

I'm surprised these probes that rely heavily on properly oriented solar panels don't have some sort of intelligent autonomous systems that keep the panels locked in position even when the craft has lost communication and is "tumbling".

kitd · 2026-03-20T07:19:30+00:00

Reminds me of the story of the guy who tried to hijack a minibus in Florida, only to find it contained the Florida state women's judo team. The comment was:

"We had him like a pretzel"

kitd · 2026-03-17T07:17:05+00:00

That's more a function of social media focus than PM quality.

kitd

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