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Continuing with the 'Brits getting fed up' theme there comes news that the BBC has lost 1.1 billion in unpaid licence fees. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tv-licence-uk-pay-bbc-fee-b2869730.html That's on top of the 8% of funding it lost from USAID when Trump closed it down...

I should think most flights of a similar nature are one way.

It seems the Brits are getting out of Britain - https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2025/11/uk-exodus-257000-britons-leave-2024-ons-data/

In what way(s) are they fiddling the count?

Can't think that it's the most onerous job going but there's probably a months health and safety training involved and a shift pattern to be implemented.

Posters generally are a bit scarce!

If anything defined the German powerhouse it was its automotive industry, or that was the most visible part of it anyway. And basically that got greedy and sold its soul to the Chinese.

This is the conundrum I face, for I tend to visit Germany as a guest of organisations where everything is controlled to a certain extent, not quite to North Korean levels but the best face is worn to the outside and there is little opportunity to see under the skin. I probably just get to see...

Three score years and ten, man's alloted period of suffering in this obscure backwater of the universe. And yes, in days of old 70 was indeed ancient but there are those who will grow into that niche, some fighting it, some not realising it and others who welcome the aging as they belive, often...

One note of caution I should add is that in my field of activity there has been a recession for the last two/three years that is somewhat independent of the general economy, and there is a feeling that the worst is over. Indeed, a recession in the larger economy might well release skilled staff...

One has the feeling it is like intruding into family grief, or asking after the black sheep of the family, one just doesn't mention it. Whenever I ask of companies about production costs or whatever, they indicate that they will find their own way through the 'challenging period' and will...

I've been over there for a while this autumn and there is no mention made of any of this, it's all business as normal and glossy paint applied where necessary. I was at a presentation held by the VDMA, Germany's leading industrial organisation, and the subject was not referred to at all.

A wonderful take on the total f*ckfest that was COP30. Here's a taste of it - And how about the irony of hosting this fake green extravaganza in the Amazon! The event planners, in their infinite wisdom, decided to chop down an estimated 70,000 trees in a protected swath of the rainforest to...

Good point, but it involved only a tiny fraction of the population. If digital currencies were to be normalized then wouldn't some sort of scam which embraced far more people be thought up?

For all that might be said for Canada's descent into leftist idiocy Alberta strikes back with a law that forbids health organisations trying to muzzle its employees. https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/province-tables-free-speech-for-regulated-professionals-bill-coined-the-peterson-law/

I think I mentioned it before but I heard from a source which could probably be trusted that an online auction for dealers to shift used EVs had been organised here in Ireland. It did not attract one bid for any of the lots.

Well done BFH! I for one truly admire your spirit and sober approach to the situation, should I find myself in a similar spot then your words will return and bolster my resolve. I'm sure that many would feel the same way.

Yay, you are still with us! Great to hear. How's it going?

European and American emission standards have been more or less running in parallel for 20 odd years now with the current set being known as Stage V here in the EU. NOx emissions are a product of temperature and pressure in a diesel engine, and the higher the compression ratio the greater the...

With regards to the automotive industry I think it was a question of greed and arrogance. The companies just got too big and in seeking ever bigger profits they saw a switch to EVs as the golden goose that would represent the ultimate in built in obsolescence, so they rounded up the politicians...