The problem is when people like Boris Johnson ignore the rules, and have enough supporters to help him do so. The system only works when enough people refuse to do the wrong thing.
Calling someone a liar is 'Unparliamentary Language', but you can say they're lying. MPs can speak under Parliamentary Privilege in the House without falling foul of the UKs awful libel laws.
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https://web-archive.oecd.org/2021-04-19/550705-ODA-2020-detailed-summary.pdf Here you go. Graphs are from page 9 onwards. The US is absolutely fundamental to global aid - maybe not on a per capita basis, but in overall volume which is what counts. The Gulf states are phenomenally wealthy per capita but are miserly in aid terms; China is only interested in gaining leverage, and if anyone thinks the Russian state is altruistic I have a bridge to sell them. The next biggest is the EU.
Go play Old Skies - really good time travel based point and click game, has the concept that the amoral company that runs time travel has given everyone in the past a rating of how critical they are to the future that determines how much you can interfere. Chinggis Khan, no chance, but Barry from Sales? Sure, do what you want, he's not important!
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Your likelihood of finishing your tour of 25 missions as a WWII USAAF bomber crewman in Europe was about one in four. About 75% were killed, captured, or very seriously injured. The RAF was slightly better, as they mostly worked at night.
Put simply, there's a really good chance that the young guys you see in any given photo with their aircraft did not get to go home. I'm willing to forgive them for painting whatever they wanted to on the aircraft they'd probably die in.
It's all done by the mask - Assassinorum Kingmaker explains it well, and is a great read besides.
Also one of the most significant contributors of aid to Ukraine. First tanks, first long range cruise missiles, clear and unwavering diplomatic support, tens of thousands trained in the UK, etc... cheap points from this guy who hasn't done his homework.
It's pork, with pork, some pork, additional pork, plus optional pork.
Nope. Female Custodians are officially a thing now. Multiple references to them recently in books, and an entire episode of one of GW's homegrown animations is dedicated to showing one kicking the living shit out of some Tyranids and then cowing some White Consuls into obedience.
https://spikeybits.com/warhammer-40k/female-custodes-on-screen-in-warhammer-tv-tithes-episode-2/
They are individually handcrafted humanoid weapon systems that are basically sexless in any case - why not be female?
Whereas one Harrier loss was down to something like the pilot moving the throttle instead of the nozzle control lever during a hover, causing irretrievable power loss and ditching the aircraft. When designing the aircraft someone decided to put the two controls, which are way out of the eyeline, right next to each other...
I know pilots of both - Harrier took joy in trying to kill its pilots and required the equivalent of trying to play three musical instruments at once. F35 is apparently much more automated, the burden is on operating all the sensors and mission systems instead.
I have high hopes for constitutional reform under this Parliament. Let's see how long they last!
It is not illegal, but it is absolutely against the rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_of_parliament?wprov=sfla1
The problem is when people like Boris Johnson ignore the rules, and have enough supporters to help him do so. The system only works when enough people refuse to do the wrong thing.
Calling someone a liar is 'Unparliamentary Language', but you can say they're lying. MPs can speak under Parliamentary Privilege in the House without falling foul of the UKs awful libel laws.
https://web-archive.oecd.org/2021-04-19/550705-ODA-2020-detailed-summary.pdf
Here you go. Graphs are from page 9 onwards. The US is absolutely fundamental to global aid - maybe not on a per capita basis, but in overall volume which is what counts. The Gulf states are phenomenally wealthy per capita but are miserly in aid terms; China is only interested in gaining leverage, and if anyone thinks the Russian state is altruistic I have a bridge to sell them. The next biggest is the EU.
And so Scotland picked the unicorn as it's national animal because mythology said it was the natural enemy of the lion.
BBC News - China navy used sonar pulses against divers, Australia says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/67461081
Not the same incident, obviously, but fuuuuuuck that. High power sonar can killdivers from quite a long way off.
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Siegfried Sassoon, 1886-1967
My own personal tinfoil hat theory is that Just Stop Oil is a psychological operation funded by the oil industry to devalue and discredit protests in the eyes of the public. If they piss off more of the public than they convince, it could reduce voter pressure for climate change legislation. I just wonder...
One hundred thousand percent yes.
Agree in principle, but probably should remove the very breakable stolen items first before deploying the Mk84s.
It was a UK supplied cruise missile that got him. France has also agreed to send their version of the same system now. Don't hold your breath for ATACMS though.
One thing that needs to change is intellectually lazy tabloids bleating about "too many managers" and bland government soundbites about cutting bureaucracy to hire more nurses, etc. Yes, the NHS needs more medical staff, but they need to be efficient as well, and to do that you need a lot of non medical staff! Otherwise doctors end up doing the admin. It also needs significant reform, but if it has to live hand to mouth it isn't able to plan. Sorry for the rant, it's just been on my mind.
It's not your back doing the lift - by keeping it completely straight, you pivot around your hips meaning it's primarily glutes and hamstrings doing the lift, which are the largest muscles in your body. Shoulders and core keep the back braced as most problems happen when the spine is allowed to round - this means all that force suddenly is going through that Jenga tower you describe, with unfortunate consequences.
Do it! Makes a huge difference, it's so easy to make a habit of even small errors in form. A couple of sessions focusing purely on good form will stand you in good stead. I now have my PT's voice inside my head constantly reminding me of lots of little things across a whole range of lifts to keep me from repeating mistakes. Awesome work all round mate, good effort.
I mean... the US healthcare system is a consequence of awful governance and a complete disregard for individuals over profit, but that's a public policy issue that could be fixed if your political system gave a fuck. That's not a capitalist problem, that's a political problem. Capitalism just enabled it. Terrible bastards in charge, a lazy, complicit media, and a public unwilling or uncaring to hold anyone to account can ruin everyone's day under capitalism, communism, feudalism...
Ooh, good question. There's not much about Chernenko, him being a footnote in political history. Andropov I've mostly read about in the context of books about other people he influenced - Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman is a great one for Gorbachev that deals with his political tuition under Andropov, and Putin's People by Catherine Belton is excellent in its own right (and really pissed off the Kremlin); it covers Andropov as a KGB securocrat of the type Putin later became.
But Brezhnev to Gorbachev is a huge improvement..? Andropov was Putin before Putin, Chernenko just about outlasted Liz Truss, but Gorbachev genuinely tried to make things better. Not his fault the whole rotten edifice then collapsed under its inherent contradictions. Brezhnev was a senile old bastard with a bizarre personality cult who only made things worse.
My sympathies. I'm in the same position - at least 2hrs unpaid overtime per day, weekends, managing a large team with complex & problematic dynamics, with a large long term workload that we can only just chip away at because we have so many fucking urgent things turning up daily. I can't escape work, think about it all the time, worrying about what I've done, what I will have to do, how to do it, and whether it'll all work out. I wish I could give advice, but just know you're not alone in this.
Not quite - different model of policing entirely, spread across Europe by Napoleon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie