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He's a wired haired Hungarian Vizsla. Fantastic dogs.

My handsome boy. He's just a dog!

We were devastated when our first dog was put down 10 years ago with heart problems. It's going to be so much worse when the current one passes in the next few years. I can upset myself just thinking of life without him. The bond you build with a dog is impossible to explain to people who...

The Balfour Declaration is very vague and I guess the Zionists believe it gives them permission to occupy all of Palestine.

Here's an interesting documentary about the settlement of Jews in Palestine post-WWI. Initially buying land legally. Often the Arab landowners based in Lebanon displacing their tenant farmers. Tactics changed because they couldn't buy land fast enough. Blue Box documentary

So the answer for a peaceful solution is to reinstate the Turkish Empire? Bring back their slavery too.

The stated aims of Hamas and the Zionists means there's unlikely to ever be a happy ending. They want to destroy each other. I tried to understand the history of the region after I noticed the mobilisation of so many Muslim women and children for the London marches. Why Gaza and not other...

Hezbollah are supported by Iran because they are Sunnis. They have access to better weapons. Hamas are Shias. They have a common enemy in Israel but otherwise they'd probably be fighting against each other, like Iraq and Iran did.

Smart phones are easily tracked so they can target a vehicle or building. Pagers don't give away their location.

Added benefit of this action is that they will have identified a large number of Hezbollah members they might not have known about. No doubt there will be agents gathering data in the hospitals. You have to admire the planning and execution of this. 007 and Mission Impossible in real life. I...

I've just used the Toupret putty to replace some old cracked stuff. Much easier to use than traditional Linseed putty. Takes a few days to skin over. Will have to see how durable it is but the reviews are encouraging.

If rejoining the EU is a such a big priority then why didn't the LibDems win a majority? Or why didn't someone organise independent candidates just like the pro-Palestine movement. A bit more organisation and action instead of constant whinging and whining might be the way forward.

Another fan of EPDM here. I don't know how, but I managed to do the 2 sections of my self built shed/bbq shelter single handed. Easy with nice clean OSB or ply to glue it to. I used the fancy trims but battens would be fine.

I'm probably a bit more lenient about the tech support 'experts' They had a log of incidents and known faults. The level 1 and 2 support teams didn't seem to use the known faults info sensibly. Telling people they were the only ones who have reported certain faults is hard to understand because...

Fujitsu noticed anomalies in the data retrieval and didn't initially disclose the issue to PO. They also filtered the raw data to make it more manageable to retrieve but didn't make that clear to Fujitsu people signing witness statements, or the PO who seemed to implicitly believe the system and...

Govt and PO will be hoping that quashed convictions and cash compensation will be enough to sweep it under the carpet.

Possibly a Public Sector malaise. I'm guessing too that it was ICL staff involved before Fujitsu took them over. ICL was the brainchild of Tony Benn under a Harold Wilson govt in 1968. They dominated IT technology and IT services in the public sector for decades. Initially a success but...

There's been plenty of coverage over the years. Computer Weekly were onto early doors. BBC journalist too, then Panorama. Just didn't get the traction, exposure and reaction it needed in the early years of it coming to light. The current inquiry is streamed live on YouTube and has all the...

Good point but they've all had plenty of documentaries and dramas. Unfortunately, some stuff only appeals to a limited audience. The PO scandal has a far wider appeal.

I think the term 'Investigators' is used loosely by the PO. AIUI they were financially incentivised to recover missing funds. They were not there to find the root cause of the discrepancies. Sounds like the all different areas worked in silos. As you suggest they will no doubt claim ignorance...