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5. Friday op ed
In multiple spheres, I’m newly having trouble … real time, real life, as of 0615 GMT Friday. In each case, there is reason for it but no good reason.
a. The 2004 ipad has given out and to repair it, they demand personal details they have plus others they now want, refusing service until I complete the window. It’s vastly complicated something which was originally designed to (i) work and (ii) be secure. It’s now failed in both requirements, plus new requirements it’s thrown in, even simple conveniences such as stopping screen rotating.
All very well for you to say well Apple’s rubbish and I agree in 2026 … for a start, it highly complicates blogging, as if it were not already complex. This, chaps and chapesses, is Digital ID brought right into my home. All very well to say get new gear … yeah? I have three ipads … you know what they cost? I simply cannot.
b. Nor can I sit at a computer desk longer than ten minutes, for heath reasons (back, spine, heart). The health complications I’ve already mentioned in the past days. For example, can’t go outside longer than half an hour … poisoned air, causing lurgy, plus gastric.
c. Taken together, it complicates blogging, as was one of the aims of course of govt and every platform. It means I may have to revamp what I bring to you. As for our contributors … does not currently affect them.
4. Apple and Amazon
3. Steve at 1369
- House Votes to Fund DHS, Ending 75-Day Shutdown
- Political Violence and the Willful Self-Deception of the Left
- Belgium Slams the Door on Green Energy Insanity – Restarts Full Nuclear Fleet in Massive Victory for Common Sense and Energy Independence
- COVID Vaccine Hearing Exposes Deliberate Blind Eye to ‘Overwhelming Evidence of Harm’
- This US Military Super Weapon Has Iran Scrambling Right Now BUT US Dangerous Bet Against Iran
- Ukrainian Troops Trapped Near Pokrovsk
- Eccentric Exercise: Five-Minute, No-Equipment Workout Shows Health Benefits, Researcher Says
- Police officers are having to watch their own backs after the Met deployed Palantir’s AI
- German state media turns a blind eye to vigil for victims of migrant crime
- Strait of Hormuz blockade achieves the goals of WEF and Agenda 2030 – coincidence?
- Much more.
2. From Lord Toby’s site newsletter
“Amid the many complaints about the deficits of modern life, grumbles about gas-fired central heating are extremely rare. For sure, radiators are not as cosy as an open fire. But the convenience of warming a home at the push of a button on a device that can fit in a kitchen cupboard is unmatched.
Yet banning the gas boiler has been at the top of recent governments’ policy agendas. But their determined efforts to make the world – but not our houses and flats – a better place were dealt another blow this week by an analysis from the Energy and Utilities Alliance (EUA). Among the EUA’s findings is that there were fewer than 300,000 heat pump installations in the six years 2019-2024.
Worst still for the Gaia-botherers of SW1A, people are increasingly turning their noses up at the inferior appliances – the rate of household’s adoption of heat pumps is falling, despite new regulations. 1.5 million gas boilers are relaced each year in Britain’s 28 million or so homes, at an average cost of around £2,500 each.
With just 50,000 or so opting for a heat pump, it would seem that the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) or ‘boiler tax’ of £36 per unit, which requires an increasing proportion of heat pumps to be sold, is having little effect. Mike Foster, CEO of EUA, explained: “Instead of stimulating demand, the CHMM has delivered higher costs with declining installations — the opposite of what ministers promised.”
1. DAD at 1369
MAYDAY ! MAYDAY ! MAYDAY !
a) The Silence at the Old Bailey: Why is the Starmer Arson Trial Being Buried?
b) What I saw on O’Connell Street. Young farmers, quiet resilience, and a protest Ireland chose not to hear.
c) Weak, sinking Merz has no intention of following through on any of his promises.
d) Oversupply Of Volatile Solar Energy Leads To Record NEGATIVE Prices! Germany’s Klimanachrichten reports….
e) In the Netherlands, the police have decided to plaster the faces of suspected fraudsters everywhere – in the streets, supermarkets, and on television….