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Apparently the scarcity of bees isn't quite as catastrophic as expected because it turns out that there's a whole range of other insects doing pollination, often at night when not noticed, particularly moths. It'll be their turn next! The bigger varieties are the ones which most used to be...

Except the 1%. Labour still be supporting the Israeli genocide I expect, unless there's no-one left to kill.

Tried that but they just go into a trance, poking away at buttons and smiling to themselves.

It beeps randomly when it's just sitting on the table. Seems to relate to incoming this-that-&-the-other, including new posts on here. But I've managed to switch it off!

No fence? That is the basic standard item and surely a Sedgwick spindle would have one - maybe to fit the holes you've spotted. They've all got them here...

Blair was a Thatcherite and timid neo liberal. He went with the flow, a BS merchant, not having enough talent or imagination to promote difficult or interesting alternatives. I think our Keith might do a better job - no talent or imagination but also no ideology, just a competent civil servant...

Quite a lot of us did not believe it at all. Blair had a problem - he could get by easily by acting the part and smiling a lot, but come any important decisions needing imagination and not following the herd and he was fooked. Blair a war criminal.

Many public services would not be run "at all" by private enterprise. Market forces say maximise profits. "Efficiency" is just a detail. Quality of product is another - cheaper, lower quality, obsolescence, tend to be more profitable, not to mention processed, adulterated foods. Interesting...

These were all ****-ups under the tories. Run down public services, sell them off, make loadsamoney. Post office is particularly tragic. It used to be one of the most prominent buildings and well used service in towns and villages throughout UK, bigger than banks, supermarkets etc. Now it's...

Thanks for that, sounds like the obvious answer! Just got to work my way around the controls on the Samsung, which is not easy. The b****r is beeping at me as I type but I don't know why and it won't tell me.

No it's easy. Just follow the news. That's just ideology speaking and flies in the face of common sense.

Same, but you couldn't do it very often as they are fragile and tiny. The Doro takes the full card, the Samsung the little nano one in the middle. It would be good to just swap from one to the other at the drop of a hat. From mobile (Doro) to indoors smart-alec (Samsung) to desk top computer...

Yes, that Corbyn!!!! He was planning on prison camps, a gulag archipelago in remote corners of the UK, like Wales.

Depends on your definition of socialism. Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, terrible twins but doing things slightly differently.

Well I'm fed up with smart phones. I just had another go and bought a Samsung S23. It puts me on Whats App which is handy for the family, I could use it for navigation, the camera is excellent. Other than that an expensive PITA - it may be a smart phone but its not a mobile, as compared to...

Not even bombs - just minor technological failure in a difficult situation. Failure of electricity supply and the carrier pigeon comes into its own! How have EVs helped the Spaniards dealt with the recent floods? Will Musk develop floating versions?

Poisoned by CO or suffocated by CO2 and lack of oxygen - it could be fatal to run a fuel burning device in an unventilated space. Whatever it is, diesel, petrol, gas, solid fuel, or even just the biological burn generating human energy in the body and breathing out CO2, without any external...

Well yes, almost universal advice is grind at 25º hone at 30º. Perfectly good advice for a beginner who looks for simple advice such as you would find in a book. But having got a technique sorted out, people go their own way. The idea of making use of a hollow grind is one such, but ignores...

Some way to go before we know if they are passing fads. Horse been with us for thousands of years, all the other stuff for less than 100, or much less. Climate change is going to sort them out. My money would be on the horse!

To deal with climate change we need to end "growth" on very many fronts. Growth is the main cause. It needs supporting and developing just like most institutions, businesses etc Another of the cliches basically denigrating the NHS in favour of private medicine. Nobody says it would. It's just...