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good to see Farage is not just another nodding dog “It’s quite right to aim for peace, but we can’t have a peace that turns Putin into a winner,” Farage told the BBC. And he said of Trump: “I would not be 100 percent with where his team is right now, absolutely not.” Trump’s giving Putin ‘far too much,’ says UK ally Nigel Farage – POLITICO WWW.POLITICO.EU Reform UK leader says any Ukraine peace deal has to be “equitable.”

I don't like him at all, sorry - the idea that some trader spiv like that can teach people about economics is laughable. Warren Buffets late business partner Charlie Munger was well known as a voracious reader - a book with two legs sticking out the bottom. He recommended this book to learn economics; I haven't read it yet, but if I seriously wanted to learn economics this is where I would start. I much prefer dry informative textbooks to some would be celebrity/politician pushing a narrative. It is obvious his subject matter will be clickbait and help him monetise the channel, everyone loved Robin Hood

someone is trying to pull the wool, pretending they know about something they don't

that is only what you think, your interpretation, you make it sound like it is impossible or very unlikely that any fraud took place Personally I vote for the party and not the leader, at the last election I voted Conservative and would have done if it was Rishi, Boris, or even Liz

what he posted could well be evidence of election fraud - why are you so sure it's not? You or I don't have any idea about it, let's be honest

the 'former city trader' in that clip has it wrong, inequality is part of our evolution, it exists in all societies, even the most well known attempt to stamp out inequality (communism) didn't work, because the nature of the beast meant the administrators (Lenin, Stalin et al) took much more for themselves Surely the cost of benefits is more than the total wealth of everyone in the Sunday Times Rich list? I'm not saying bring back the workhouse, but the handouts are excessive. Dormitories are perfectly acceptable accomodation for the unemployed and would incentivize them to take any job they could find. In 2023/24 the UK government is expected to spend approximately 258.4 billion British pounds on benefits, compared with the previous year when benefit expenditure was 242.5 billion pounds

It's your face and your windscreen - but in the event you were to go through it - the custom is to scrape you up into a van and present you to the hospital for repair, a costly repair on taxpayers money

they want people to phone up tree contractors and try to sell them an app - if used correctly the app will bring the contractors unimaginable wealth and the business will almost run itself another example of clever people sitting in an office wanting to live of the sweat of manual workers

is there a difference between a good idea and a sensible one? maybe head height is OTT, but providing you can get it off the stump without trapping your saw then progressively cutting the butt higher off the ground, even to waist height allows the whole weight of the tree to work in your favour, of course it can drop unexpectedly while you're cutting, my ways aren't intended for professional use, only for have a go sole traders

pity it wasn't 5.3m - back to where they came from, or the US gets concreted over even quicker

I can't see why dangerous tree work can be completed just by typing stuff online - there shouldn't be any need to go out into the real world

anarchists arent allowed any direction, they are free from the burdens of dichotomy

I was trying to find where the FC rules say about the garden exemption, can you link to it ? Without it taking up too much time of course

this isn't an idea written from experience of big hung up roadside trees, more plenty of small ones, I did one the other day, and used the blocking method to get the butt off the ground and then a rope with me and the owner pulling with the hung up tree in mid air, it worked. I do have a T35 winch, but this was an add on job I'd not planned for. Now with a big tree like that I imagine blocking from the base out across the road cutting to head height from the side and then a pull rope (if gravity didn't shift it). Maybe they didn't even have a pull rope with them. A decent rigging line and perhaps a pulley for redirect and the tractor, plus the blocking method would have been my first thoughts - although I know when the crown in wedged in the severed butt of the hung up tree will not fall or be pulled down. At that point with the hung up tree suspended in mid air they could have said right f*ck it - pull in direction of severed stump of hung up tree and just fell the other one across the road too. They fell one too many trees, but make it back home

you shouldn't have skimmed it, it's 28 pages, not 280 pages, quite clearly says 5 cube a quarter or more you need a licence, any conservation area needs to be declared, the FC will then contact the LPA for an opinion before issuing a licence. What I couldn't follow is CGs point above about trees in gardens being exempt from needing a felling licence. Some big properties, say a 2 or 3 acre garden, if it's not in a conservation area, surely you can't just clear fell say 20 cube worth of trees at once if someone wants a golf course on the back lawns with no felling licence? Is there a reference/link for this exemption? I know you can go over 5 cube a quarter with pollarding etc, but what about felling?

Ive always just hedgecuttered laurels, if its a yearly cut after a couple of months the smashed up big leaves on the face are hardly noticeable, never had any complaints, certainly not used loppers or secateurs

of all the hedges I maintain for people I like cherry laurel for a big garden, beech is ok, but laurel being evergreen is more my taste for a year round screen. I cut a few leylandi that have got like the 6ft wide ones above, people just put up with them, its a green screen, prettier than a fence, you would have a slightly bigger garden afterwards, by all of 3ft

Tesla investor calls for Elon Musk to step down as boss NEWS.SKY.COM Wealth manager Ross Gerber tells Sky News that Musk's time has become too stretched and his work alongside President Donald...

that's not really fair - peds has started climbing some quite big trees now - doesn't that take backbone? backbone Trump with his love of country - notwithstanding avoiding serving in Vietnam on dodgy medical exemption

I agree that Labour don't really know how to drill down into the details like the Conservatives did, but at least the thrust of it is acknowledging that China is putting up more smog than just about everyone else - and a transition to green energy isn't fools shite. There is no way that fossil fuels burning and associated CO2 hasn't changed our climate more than all the volcanoes combined. Chinese burning their own and Australian coal is the worst culprit, but moving transportation to battery will help too - not only with global warming but air quality too. I briefly lived and cycled in London, watching cycle couriers steal a lift by grabbing the back of a lorry and get towed up the road - I thought those guys must breathe in so much exhaust fumes. Coal Oil and Gas made us lazy and pampered, back in the day a man had to walk to work. The greenhouse gas theory has implications so bad that people just don't want to believe it. We all know eventually Earth will become uninhabitale anyway when the Sun finally burns out, but burning all the coal, oil and gas looks like a good way to make the planet more f*ucked much sooner. All because humans want luxury and comforts. I mean people who fly abroad on 2 or more foreign holidays a year - putting their own enjoyment before anything else. The answer isn't just more nuclear - it is to get humans to enjoy life without mega consumption

maybe willow, perhaps salix caprea, or fragilis - close up pics of the buds would help

POTUS Biden - funded genocidal Israel POTUS Trump - funded genocidal Israel Scorsese's film 'Killers of the Flower Moon' illustrates perfectly what happens when the european settlers get involved in matters of territory and money. There is no hope of a good outcome until the US is broken up, I don't care that it won't be in my lifetime, but when it comes it will have been a long time coming

is it worth trying a tube of tyre foam, or is the puncture too big?

Now he's in Power the public's opinion is not really relevant WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - More than half of Americans, including one in four Republicans, think President Donald Trump is "too closely aligned" with Russia, as he radically realigns U.S. foreign policy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. The two-day poll completed on Wednesday also found little appetite among Americans for Trump's expansionist agenda, as the Republican president talks of acquiring Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.