Jon Stokes
@JonS1950
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Embrace knowledge. Never stop learning. Be good, be kind, and if you are able to, be a blood donor. I am also @[email protected]
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Joined May 2011
Britishvolt's problem was being unable to sign a supply contract with any motor manufacturer, either in the UK or overseas. Who is going to invest in a supplier with no customers?
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I recall that the BBC's Breakfast Time was not that good in the 1980s. The big change happened when they copied the format of the the Channel Four Daily after it ceased in 1992.
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If Vikings were the navigators that legend says they were, did they understand amphidromic points, even if they didn't realise it?
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I have no idea why, but I am currently watching Vikings Valhalla on Netflix, and the Amphidromic point of tides has popped into my head.
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Fingers crossed - this would leave only #REULBill in the truly barking mad category (though goodness knows there are plenty of others needing significant surgery)
UK may shelve controversial Brexit protocol bill in show of goodwill to EU
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Finished watching The Lying Life of Adults on Netflix - a dramatisation of Elena Ferrante's novel La vita bugiarda degli adulti'. It is excellent, and very Italian - probably because it was made in Italy - crazy driving, passionate arguments, vespas, insults, food. Recommended.
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Fighting the swell. What swell? That ship needs ballast. She is way too high in the water.
Wow! Why is Canley rolling this much in fairly low sea state. @GDNASSCO & @MSCSealift must not have the ship ballasted down as you can see the rudders. This is what happens when you convert an Alaska-class super tanker and load a lot of gear up high.
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Yep. That's not meant to happen. Let's hope that they didn't have too far to walk.
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Royal Navy Rescues Five from Sinking Tug in the Caribbean https://t.co/FVdLKsZJ0n
gcaptain.com
The crew of a Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel rescued five seafarers from a sinking tugboat in the Caribbean. The rescue took place Friday afternoon when the crew of the...
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In that case she's in the wrong court.
#CrownCourt comes to @TalkingPicsTV today from 2:30pm The first case is of a man who died during brain surgery, and whose widow is suing the hospital for neglect. Continues on Thursday and Friday at the same time.
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Meanwhile, the very same faction of election denying, insurrection excusing politicians have just spent a week flexing their muscles in Washington. The man who was apparently too moderate for them, McCarthy, himself voted to overturn the 2020 election and is now Speaker.
The similarity in Brazil to Jan 6 is not a coincidence. The Brazilian right and especially far-right have long looked up to and modeled themselves after the US right. No one had to tell them to copy Trump.
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And firms will be delighted to manufacture both UK and EU regulatory standards, which won’t feed through into higher prices (or lead to EU manufacturers giving up on the UK market).
“Because we are free to deplete our environment and trash our workplace and consumer protections, it is of the utmost importance that we do so (and by regulation, so that Parliament can neither amend nor reject our plans).” https://t.co/WjbLAgpkWO
#REULBill
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Cross bench peer Lord Anderson shares his view on the awful proposed bonfire of EU retained law.
“Because we are free to deplete our environment and trash our workplace and consumer protections, it is of the utmost importance that we do so (and by regulation, so that Parliament can neither amend nor reject our plans).” https://t.co/WjbLAgpkWO
#REULBill
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More his fess than mine but I had an ex boyfriend who actually thought the tide times were controlled by the local council. We lived by the sea. I never told him the truth and it still makes me laugh imagining some poor council worker pressing a button to make the tide come in.
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.@TomTugendhat suggests we need a new treason law. Really? Any reasonably well-educated child with a good grasp of medieval Norman-French would be able to make a reasonable stab at what it means, as I explained back in 2014. https://t.co/kufNQKxuWl
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The highlight of my evenings over the festival period has been watching #OnlyConnect every night. You would expect that with daily practice, you would become a whiz, but no. It remains a confoundedly difficult quiz.
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Chidi maybe feeling disappointed with 3 points in his specialist subject, but back in the Magnus Magnusson era, the curate of my local church scored just 2 points in his specialist subject of... church architecture. #Mastermind
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You sort of hope that the message has been lost in translation, but sadly not.
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