Recent content by wobs

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No "The last three years were the hottest on record": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y5p9rzd4ko "Despite natural cooling from La Niña, 2025 was still much warmer than temperatures even a decade ago, as humanity's carbon emissions continue to heat the planet."

Didn't happen with our newel posts, they were butchered to get plywood to cover them. In both houses I've owned! The spindles were replaced with plain ones.

Just to expand on this, Ridley met in secret with his opposite number from Argentina, in Switzerland, under the story he was going on holiday: "Ridley held a secret, informal meeting with his Argentine opposite number Carlos Cavandoli in September 1980, and the two sides broadly agreed to a...

"According to Thatcher’s biographer David Cannadine, in the 1970s the British government’s preferred solution was a diplomatic one. Lord Carrington, foreign secretary between 1979 and 1982, favoured a ‘leaseback scheme’. The idea was to cede sovereignty to Argentina, in return for which the...

Putin did support him, but Vlad seems to be running out of dictators to be pally with. Only Iran and N.Korea remain in terms of dictators who he can trade with. Now Syria has fallen, and he lost access to their port. Venezuela did trade with Russia, but obviously its uncertain what will...

Why the US could be interested in Venezuelan oil:

Given that the only people I went to school with, that am still in contact with, left with no qualifications... yes i do. I'm struggling to see the point you are making.

Why? We have a diverse workforce, which works well together.

Ignorance is not a virtue. Neither is trolling. I went to Uni with people who came from the EU to study, and some UK students on my course went to Finland for their year in industry. That the scheme was scrapped due to Brexit, just shows how ideologically driven the Tories were (and still are...

"The maximum penalty for non-payment of the TV licence fee is a fine. A person cannot receive a custodial sentence for TV licence evasion but can be committed to prison for wilfully refusing to pay the fine or culpably neglecting to pay. Imprisonment is only pursued as a matter of last resort...

Something wild and expensive that she doesn't really need.... so radiation treatment.

Nobody promised you anything when we left (other than Leave liars) . We are the only ones who can change our lives. This should involve re-joining, as otherwise we will continue to make the same mistakes. The UK has to get over its post-colonial mindset.

While you may have a point in some regards, from your link: "15 Nov 2019 — Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says privatisation has doubled since 2010." New Labour's work on the NHS resulted in vast improvements in resources and services. We might not like that they didn't stick to socialist purity...

Is this helpful? 100 Immigrants Who Made Britain Great: Ade Adepitan, athlete and TV presenter Alan Yau, restaurateur Alec Issigonis, car designer Alek Wek, model Alf Dubs, politician András Schiff, pianist and conductor Anish Kapoor, sculptor Anna Freud, psychoanalyst Arthur Wharton, footballer...