Interesting video about the subject from Ryan McBeth

There’s an “editorial complaints” link at the bottom of BBC news website.

Maybe he could have CC’d more journalists? Yesterday’s post was cautioning that it didn’t come from a big mainstream newspaper. Looks like the BBC just got around to confirming it and writing up the story.

The theory was that they prefer defensive operations at the moment, where they can do a lot more damage - and this forces Russia to oblige them by attacking.

April 2020 - wasn’t this when bidding on as much PPE as possible was basically the government’s only hope?

These were the headlines at the time. Any minister worth their salt would have been on a Turkish runway with a suitcase full of treasury bonds and instructions to buy whatever is available.

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From 2005: “The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.” - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.

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Finishing your climb before any afternoon thunderstorms is often one of the good ideas when you are climbing a very long metal cable.

Same time period that the Netherlands went all-in on making it safe and popular to cycle everywhere.

Aren’t cranes connected to the port’s IT system so that they know which containers need unloading?

Using the Royal Navy to protect tea routes? It’s like the 18th century again.

Especially after that interview with soldiers saying that they considered civilians as “complicit” if they had “ignored” the instructions to move out of their homes.

Are they to fool humans looking at the satellite image, or to fool warheads that are using image recognition for final guidance?

It’s the main route between southern Europe and Asia

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“organisers of Saturday’s protests had refused to share details of their plans” said the policeman in charge of scuppering their plans.

Getting a bit close to self-awareness there, pal.