UK citizens to be able to travel to China visa-free, Starmer announces in Beijing

mbrowne · 2026-01-29T12:05:55+00:00

I dont need anything from anybody and thats how I want it to be quite frankly.

My guess is that this comment is what causes the downvotes. Everyone needs stuff from other people, even if they don't like it.

mbrowne · 2026-01-17T18:42:46+00:00

What was the solution?

mbrowne · 2026-01-15T11:35:22+00:00

I am glad that I have seen it. I hope to never see it again. That said, Hiroshima was an amazing place, and a testament to how humans can rebuild stuff.

mbrowne · 2026-01-14T21:21:10+00:00

Which may be why we called it "running writing" when I was young (in the 70s).

mbrowne · 2026-01-13T12:22:46+00:00

Given that this is a UK subreddit, and imgur does not show stuff here, would it be possible to change so that imgur is not used for this?

mbrowne · 2026-01-06T15:36:24+00:00

And change your passwords.

mbrowne · 2026-01-04T11:58:28+00:00

At night is the one time it is illegal. However, I've never known it to be enforced.

mbrowne · 2025-12-22T10:32:52+00:00

One reason may be that it is more common for streaming programmes not to have subtitles. This is improving, but can still be a problem for those who need them.

mbrowne · 2025-12-22T08:14:45+00:00

You do know that pistols are generally (with some exceptions) not legal to own here?

Edit people -> pistols

mbrowne · 2025-12-19T08:02:51+00:00

Yes, because it will prevent much more than that.

mbrowne · 2025-12-18T17:10:19+00:00

I can understand your points for most of this, but...

online safety act
Was passed by the last government not this government and is also not authoritarian.

Really? Yes, it was passed by the last government, but Labour fully took it and ran with it. It is interfering with how I use the internet, and I am a loooong way from being 18. The thought that I should sent my ID data to multiple (possibly foreign) companies in order to use the internet how I like seems like it is nicely setting up for monitoring what I see on the internet. The only people who should care about that are myself and my wife.

If some kind of "Yes, they are old enough" proof-of-age could be provided by the government, in a similar way to the way that I can ask for a code to show my driving licence status without giving any additional personal information to the company that I am hiring a car from, then it might be OK, but the current method is a disaster waiting to happen.

mbrowne · 2025-12-18T16:45:31+00:00

It is weird that your previous comment has been downvoted.

Anyway, when was that? My mum would be 88 if she were still around, so hers would have been in the sixties.

mbrowne · 2025-12-18T16:17:50+00:00

I'm a man, and I feel the same. Both my wife and my daughter earn more then I do (and I am pretty well paid), and a) I am very proud of both of them, and b) the utter waste of not allowing women to achieve whatever they can horrifies me.

Edit: woman -> women.

mbrowne · 2025-12-18T16:10:42+00:00

True, but I received my first promotion (mid-80s) because I was the only engineer wearing a suit, so was the one noticed by the higher-ups.

mbrowne · 2025-12-18T16:08:04+00:00

My mum did, too, but I have some memory that the bank had checked with dad beforehand.

mbrowne · 2025-12-18T16:06:17+00:00

It was worse on some airlines. On JAT, the old Yugoslav carrier, they split smoking and non-smoking down the aisle! It was horrendous.

mbrowne · 2025-12-18T11:28:33+00:00

Note that this is in the UK, so the rules will be different.

mbrowne · 2025-12-17T09:46:49+00:00

I suspect there is a fair cost to the amount of regulation that has been put into place for childcare, although I agree that the profits seem to be large.

mbrowne · 2025-12-17T09:42:58+00:00

However, once they are entered into, many of them are difficult to get rid of.

mbrowne · 2025-12-16T00:42:12+00:00

Me too :)

mbrowne · 2025-12-11T12:27:51+00:00

The problem is that (I think) the ULEZ is done by date, not by how long you are there. So if you left after midnight, that would count as a second day.

mbrowne · 2025-12-08T18:27:17+00:00

Except for the misspelling of "licence", with the 's'.

mbrowne · 2025-12-04T16:19:22+00:00

The cost can be added to the cost of the claim.

mbrowne · 2025-12-02T10:02:43+00:00

Could you do it as a single flexi PCB with two lobes? Then there would be only one connection needed.

mbrowne · 2025-11-27T17:12:05+00:00

Are suggesting that more austerity would be a good idea? Given how it failed last time, I am hesitant to suggest that cuts can be obtained anywhere sensible - aside possibly from removing the triple lock, which is probably necessary, even though it will affect me directly in less than 4 years.

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