Alternative way of writing the headline: “OAP intentionally walks up to police with a sign saying I AM A TERRORIST and is then surprised when she gets treated as a terrorist”.

You can argue whether or not Palestine Action should have been proscribed or not, but it did happen and the government made it abundantly clear what that proscription means for anyone continuing to show support for them.

Maybe she wanted to make the point that the group shouldn’t have been banned (in fact I’m sure that’s the point she wanted to make) but surely she didn’t think Keir Starmer was going to go “oh my god you know what, you’re right, I’ll do yet another U-turn because of this old lady”.

Despite the K in its name, KiCad is nothing to do with the KDE project. It’s an independent program started (iirc) at a French university. I agree it’s awesome, though.

I see what you did there.

Oh yeah definitely. The original Speccy came out a couple of months before my 12th birthday. Unfortunately my 12th birthday present that year was NOT a Spectrum or any other kind of computer – but through a combination of saving paper round money and constant pleading/annoying mum & dad it meant that we got one by about Easter 1983. And so my paper round money for the rest of my teenage years nearly all ended up in the hands of Imagine, Ultimate, DKTronics, Ocean and all the other amazing games companies that appeared out of nowhere.

I’ve not really had much chance to play yet. It arrived Saturday late afternoon, I was planning on setting aside a few hours this afternoon to get stuck in but something else came up. So so far all I’ve done is set it up and spent about half an hour just looking at what it can do.

Ask me again in a week!

Has anyone who likes this not already binged the full box set on iPlayer?

Anyway we enjoyed it. It was bonkers, and definitely don’t poke too hard at the many, many plot holes, but there were enough games of “who really is the baddie” to keep us entertained.

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If the thread had been titled “how do I make a bahn mi” then I’d have upvoted you to the moon. But it wasn’t. It was asking how to make that most English (not British, but English) of foods, a cucumber sandwich. And in case that wasn’t a clue enough, the community is Ask UK. Not Ask Vietnam or Ask America.

If you went into an English tea room for afternoon tea and they served you that monstrosity and claimed it was a cucumber sandwich, you’d be perfectly within your rights to burn the entire place to the ground and not a single judge in the country would convict you.

If it has cheese or ham then it’s not a cucumber sandwich. It’s a cheese sandwich, or a ham sandwich.

That “assuming nothing else changes” is doing a huge amount of heavy lifting.

Something that I heard a few years ago really demonstrated people’s rightward political shift as they age like nothing else.

Imagine a child born shortly after the end of the Second World War, say 1948-1950. That child would have been a young adult, 18-20, in 1968. That was both the year that the hippie movement gained greatest prominence as well as the year of radical protest where young people around the world organised and fought back against corruption and repression.

Now fast forwards to 2016. Those very same post-war children are now aged 66-68. That’s the demographic that more than any other voted in favour of Brexit. I bet if you’d gone back to those young radicals of '68 and told them they were going to become bigoted, narrow-minded xenophobes they’d have laughed in your face. But it happened.

Looking at that screenshot, even though I’ve been a very happy KDE user for many years now, I do kinda miss the days when many Xfree86 desktop environments were influenced more by NeXTStep than Windows.

I’ve not seen any of the previous series (I think I’m right that this isn’t the first series) but I accidentally caught the first episode this time round and now I’m avidly watching each week. I’m really enjoying it.

Also, I want to go travelling again (although on maybe more than 20 quid a day!)

And now, my mind being what it is, I’ve immediately started wondering if Doctor Legg ever got a glimpse of Ethel’s little willy.

Nothing changed. I’m not sure what you were expecting would change - the only difference was that instead of driving to Dover, putting your car on a ferry and then getting off in France, you’d drive to Dover, put your car on a train and then get off in France.

The Eurostar passenger services started a year or so later iirc, but again although it was fun to be able to take the train to Paris rather than taking the plane or boat, it didn’t really affect anyone who wasn’t travelling to Paris anyway.

Maybe do a simple Google search next time?

Rather than resorting to that age-old cry of the cult member “do your own research!” can I respectfully suggest that if you’re aiming to change somebody’s mind, the onus is on you to provide the evidence, not on them. By all means take hours out of your day to search google and compile a list of things that you think will convince me. Me, personally, I have better things to do with my life.

That’s kind of my point. Blockchain evangelists have been banging the drum for many years saying “This is a perfect fit for the financial industry. Why won’t fintech wake up and recognise that?”

When in fact fintech took a long, hard look at blockchain a long time ago and decided “nope, there’s nothing here that would tempt us” outside of a few very niche applications.

Blockchain has been around as a technology for nearly two decades. If financial institutions thought it could help them you can bet they would be all-in on it by now. As it is, blockchain has no significant advantages over traditional financial ledger systems, so what incentive is there for them to use it.

It’s not something new or cutting edge any more, just waiting for a bright spark to discover the technology and put it to use.

I enjoy Sara Cox’s evening drivetime show. I sometimes wish I didn’t, but when you’re doing yet another 4-hour slog up the M1/M6 in evening rush hour traffic it’s perfect company.

And Zoe Ball can be OK in the mornings, although I’ll often tune into something with a bit less chatter unless I’m feeling particularly enthusiastic. Other than those two shows, R2 doesn’t really do it for me. And yes, Jeremy Vine is utterly off-putting.

Maybe a controversial one but I much prefer the US version of Shameless to the British one.