At work we’ll need to pay for extended support, probably just for a year on a few machines as they will be complicated to migrate, no pricing yet last time I checked though.

At home, I’ve had Win11 pretty much since it came out, find it annoying, but largely ok. I’ve moved over to MacOS now for ...

What has helped the Gender Critical movement substantially is that they have a major ally in author J.K. Rowling who was believed to have bankrolled For Women Scotland's appeal against the Scottish Government.


The other thing which has helped, that can't be understated is what constitutes ...

Philip wrote: Thu 10 Apr, 2025 22.45 Looks like the police are waking up to this problem

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3677xzk56no

The shop near me which I think has been raided twice now is still open, so....

Not only in reality, but in law, we now know that transgender women are not women.


No, just in law. The rest is your belief, so regardless of how politely you put it, it’s still an unkind and disrespectful thing to say.


It is not intended to be unkind, or disrespectful, and I've said ...

It’s been interesting reading back through this thread.

So, today of course, the Supreme Court provided some much needed clarity over some of the very questions and challenges I proposed.

Not only in reality, but in law, we now know that transgender women are not women.

The practical problems of ...

Yeah, my view on it has shifted over the years:

Was shooting Fred Barras justified? I wasn’t there, but probably not.

Was Fred Barras responsible for his own death? He was 16. My eldest child is 16, it seems likely that he would have lacked the maturity and insight to really rationalise what he ...

Tony Martin, dies aged 80.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rq4evqq75o

Has the passage of time changed our views on this?

I'd forgotten about this thread.

Noma have knocked it out of the park this year, with these:

https://up.metropol247.co.uk/Dr%20Lobster*/Box.jpg

Below are a couple of shots from my iPhone, I'll take some more balanced realistic colours later in the week or at the weekend, but these have ...

I never really got twitter in the first place. That said, I’m not on any social media and not had a facebook account for over a decade now.

We're mostly Newsquest titles round here and they're sort-of half behind a paywall.

You get 20 page reads, then they want you to pay for any more.

Not sure whether they realise that you just clear your cookies and carry on.


yep - it's clumsily implemented here as well - you can just bypass ...

This had a reasonably soft launch, but all the local iliffe media titles went behind a paywall on Monday.

You may have never heard of them, but Iliffe publishes many local papers and news sites here in East Anglia, especially titles covering small, often quite poor and deprived towns across the ...