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Assange wins right to appeal his extradition ruling to the US.

Looks like this is going to drag on for some time to come. If there is a general election soon it will be interesting to see how the former DPP handles the case.

Since half the world is going to ignore this ICC ruling, and the other half is already ignoring the request for the arrest of Mr Putin, the institution is heading rapidly into league of nations levels of significance.

It has been confirmed that there were no survivors from the helicopter crash

Reports that there may be survivors from the crash, although I do not know what chances a 70+ year old would have after many hours on an exposed mountain after such an incident There was talk of him becoming the next Ayatola, but there are a lot of possible contenders. The role of president has lost...

The Georgian president vetoed the bill as she said she would. I fully expect the role of president to become fully ceremonial in the very near future.

All that I concede is that you are doing me more honour than I deserve wasting your time on this. This web site is read by a very tiny number of people (although I think they are mostly a very select bunch) and all of them have many months ago made up their minds on the rights or wrongs of Putin's i...

My answer is that you have just wasted (hopefully) several hours of your life reacting exactly as I expected to my post which took ten seconds.

I came across a copy of the Daily Mirror from the 1950s some years ago. I was surprised at how articulate, informative and world focused it was. I would compare it to one of our 'broadsheets' today, except none of the current broadsheets have the politically neutral tone of reporting as that paper d...

A lot of the gains the Greens are making are explicitly at the expense of Labour for their non-stance on the bombing of Gaza.

I would love it to be for their radical climate or environment policies, but it isnt.

I heard a Labour spokesperson say they would immediately scrap the scheme. There is no guarantee that there will be flights before the election as there are still possible court appeals on an individual basis. If labour say they will scrap the scheme anyway, I do not think it will be a big reversal ...

As of Dec 2023, two thirds of UK councils have no plans or strategy to support kerbside EV charging.

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joined up government?

GWR have introduced an experimental battery train on the greenford line . It uses fast charging through a short centre 3rd rail whilst in the station at greenford. Four minutes at 2MW is enough to charge the battery to run the train to the other end of the line and back. To provide 2MW without overl...

Over the 20 years Putin has been in charge life has got a lot better for a lot of Russians (but by no means all). This is due largely to the economic reforms and rebuilding of their extractive industries. Of course vast amounts of this vast wealth have been stolen by oligarchs, and most of that has ...

Putin is becoming more totalitarian by the month. It is no longer enough that he wins elections, it is now no longer acceptable to even express the possibility that anyone else could rule Russia. He is extending the cult of personality to become synonymous with mother Russia herself. This is the equ...