General News Thread

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, VLC86 said:

You don’t need both pilots to do it and the cockpit recording has the other pilot saying “why have you just cut off the fuel”.

 

Its either a really strange, horrendous error by someone I believe they said was experienced or it’s a deliberate action.

 

Ive just spoken to someone I know who trains pilots and he’s said the same, impossible to accidentally cut the fuel off and they have either got their checklists completely messed up or it’s deliberate.

 

Is this Nick who runs the flight deck simulator at Wolvey?

[VLC86]

16 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Is this Nick who runs the flight deck simulator at Wolvey?

Nah, my other half is an examiner for one of the major airlines.

[Trav Le Bleu]

I know a lot of people on here won't want to miss this...

 

Margaret Thatcher festival's programme of events revealed - BBC News

 

https://share.google/V1Nf5Yq50N6WdTYlx

 

[Zear0]

20 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I know a lot of people on here won't want to miss this...

 

Margaret Thatcher festival's programme of events revealed - BBC News

 

https://share.google/V1Nf5Yq50N6WdTYlx

 

Billy Bragg playing? 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Billy Bragg playing? 

Scenes!

[fox_up_north]

18 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I know a lot of people on here won't want to miss this...

 

Margaret Thatcher festival's programme of events revealed - BBC News

 

https://share.google/V1Nf5Yq50N6WdTYlx

 

Given that the headline act is a drag show reimagining Section 28, this isn't the Rees-Mogg wet dream it initially appears. 

 

I know Grantham, having lived nearby. I absolutely cannot stand a lot of things her government did but the simple fact is she was our first female PM, elected in the Tories of all parties. 

 

One thing I think people need to learn is balanced rhetoric. She can be both a pioneering inspiration and an absolute car crash of a politician at the same time

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j1k3k44e2o

 

A child has died at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after contracting measles, the BBC understands.

There has been a surge in children being taken to the hospital after becoming seriously unwell with the highly contagious virus.

Alder Hey said it would not officially comment on individual cases to respect patient confidentiality but the death has been confirmed to the BBC.

No details have been released about whether the child was being treated for other health problems or their vaccination status.

 

Well, that's horrible.

[st albans fox]

26 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j1k3k44e2o

 

A child has died at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after contracting measles, the BBC understands.

There has been a surge in children being taken to the hospital after becoming seriously unwell with the highly contagious virus.

Alder Hey said it would not officially comment on individual cases to respect patient confidentiality but the death has been confirmed to the BBC.

No details have been released about whether the child was being treated for other health problems or their vaccination status.

 

Well, that's horrible.

Ties into your post on the ‘things I learned today’ thread.

they say ‘a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing’. I’d say a mountain of ignorance is worse! 

 

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Ties into your post on the ‘things I learned today’ thread.

they say ‘a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing’. I’d say a mountain of ignorance is worse! 

 

Ignorance is a deadly sin with a body count higher than any of the other seven, yes. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Ties into your post on the ‘things I learned today’ thread.

they say ‘a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing’. I’d say a mountain of ignorance is worse! 

 

But, but, but... the vaxxers are trying to get you!

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

But, but, but... the vaxxers are trying to get you!

Oh yeah - silly me 

of course they are 

 

 

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvj13d9ylpo

 

The European Union (EU) and Mexico have expressed disappointment at US President Donald Trump's threat to impose 30% tariffs on their imports from 1 August.

Mexico criticised what it called Trump's "unfair deal" and insisted its sovereignty was non-negotiable, while the EU's chief, Ursula von der Leyen threatened to take "proportionate countermeasures", if needed. Both said they wanted to keep negotiating with the US.

Trump has warned he will impose even higher import taxes if either of the US trading partners decide to retaliate.

 

Why not go straight to a mass boycott and closing airspace to American flight carriers, with added vaccination checks for American tourists?

 

Stop pussyfooting around the man and treat him like the bully he is. 

[Torquay Gunner]

7 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvj13d9ylpo

 

The European Union (EU) and Mexico have expressed disappointment at US President Donald Trump's threat to impose 30% tariffs on their imports from 1 August.

Mexico criticised what it called Trump's "unfair deal" and insisted its sovereignty was non-negotiable, while the EU's chief, Ursula von der Leyen threatened to take "proportionate countermeasures", if needed. Both said they wanted to keep negotiating with the US.

Trump has warned he will impose even higher import taxes if either of the US trading partners decide to retaliate.

 

Why not go straight to a mass boycott and closing airspace to American flight carriers, with added vaccination checks for American tourists?

 

Stop pussyfooting around the man and treat him like the bully he is. 

If only…….

[Jattdogg]

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvj13d9ylpo

 

The European Union (EU) and Mexico have expressed disappointment at US President Donald Trump's threat to impose 30% tariffs on their imports from 1 August.

Mexico criticised what it called Trump's "unfair deal" and insisted its sovereignty was non-negotiable, while the EU's chief, Ursula von der Leyen threatened to take "proportionate countermeasures", if needed. Both said they wanted to keep negotiating with the US.

Trump has warned he will impose even higher import taxes if either of the US trading partners decide to retaliate.

 

Why not go straight to a mass boycott and closing airspace to American flight carriers, with added vaccination checks for American tourists?

 

Stop pussyfooting around the man and treat him like the bully he is. 

Like I said yesterday or so for my Canada, it's time we just say goodbye. No trade with you let's move on. Build your own cars, whatever with your own steel , aluminum etc but the rest of us don't want to keep playing childish tantrum games. They aren't real negotiations in good faith at all. 

 

 

It might be painful at first but we all need to put the US into it's place with a giant GFY. Let's all work together however we can.

 

This man child is tiring and I can't be bothered with Americans anymore. No offense to our American brothers and sister who post on here but from  the other 95% of the world we are done. 

 

Perhaps we revisit this in 3.5 years but for now.lets play the long game.and walk away.

 

 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, Jattdogg said:

Like I said yesterday or so for my Canada, it's time we just say goodbye. No trade with you let's move on. Build your own cars, whatever with your own steel , aluminum etc but the rest of us don't want to keep playing childish tantrum games. They aren't real negotiations in good faith at all. 

 

 

It might be painful at first but we all need to put the US into it's place with a giant GFY. Let's all work together however we can.

 

This man child is tiring and I can't be bothered with Americans anymore. No offense to our American brothers and sister who post on here but from  the other 95% of the world we are done. 

 

Perhaps we revisit this in 3.5 years but for now.lets play the long game.and walk away.

 

 

And Canada has a lot of airspace that the US likes to use. 

 

Something to consider. 

[Wymsey]

So, it's a year since the attempted assignation on Trump yet hardly appeared much details on the preparator himself.

Edited 13 July 2025 by Wymsey

[Zear0]

Just now, Wymsey said:

So, it's a year since the attempted assignation on Trump yet hardly appeared much details on the preparator himself.

I'm over in the US atm and quel supris a book is being pushed all over the news about it. Why release information for free when you can sell it? 

[st albans fox]

14 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Like I said yesterday or so for my Canada, it's time we just say goodbye. No trade with you let's move on. Build your own cars, whatever with your own steel , aluminum etc but the rest of us don't want to keep playing childish tantrum games. They aren't real negotiations in good faith at all. 

 

 

It might be painful at first but we all need to put the US into it's place with a giant GFY. Let's all work together however we can.

 

This man child is tiring and I can't be bothered with Americans anymore. No offense to our American brothers and sister who post on here but from  the other 95% of the world we are done. 

 

Perhaps we revisit this in 3.5 years but for now.lets play the long game.and walk away.

 

 

What do the Americans make that we have no choice but to use ?  If there are effective and comparable alternatives to everything which aren’t a lot more expensive then we could do as you’ve said.   Otherwise it becomes a problem. 

[Sampson]

5 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

What do the Americans make that we have no choice but to use ?  If there are effective and comparable alternatives to everything which aren’t a lot more expensive then we could do as you’ve said.   Otherwise it becomes a problem. 

The short and perhaps scariest answer (at least according to Rory Stewart) is much of our military equipment, our defence, including supposedly even our nuclear deterrent. That’s why Europe is having to be careful whilst it weens itself out the US  bubble

[st albans fox]

5 minutes ago, Sampson said:

The short and perhaps scariest answer (at least according to Rory Stewart) is much of our military equipment, our defence, including supposedly even our nuclear deterrent. That’s why Europe is having to be careful whilst it weens itself out the US  bubble

Yep - that’s basically it on an overt security level 

 

and in three years we may see a softer approach incoming from a new president 

 

So do you reinvent the wheel at great expense or just make the best of it while it lasts ?

[leicsmac]

10 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Yep - that’s basically it on an overt security level 

 

and in three years we may see a softer approach incoming from a new president 

 

So do you reinvent the wheel at great expense or just make the best of it while it lasts ?

Depends if you think things will really change after those three years. 

[st albans fox]

9 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Depends if you think things will really change after those three years. 

Of course but the temptation is to try and stick with the status quo because you hope ……….

[leicsmac]

Just now, st albans fox said:

Of course but the temptation is to try and stick with the status quo because you hope ……….

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, I think. 

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, I think. 

That’s what should happen 

But the cost of that tends to mean that it often doesn’t 

[leicsmac]

7 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

That’s what should happen 

But the cost of that tends to mean that it often doesn’t 

Isn't that the damn truth. 

 

And one day that might be very consequential.