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Trump is actually obliged by treaty to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity (as is the UK), and Russia is obliged by the same treaty to respect that territorial integrity. This arose from when Ukraine returned nuclear weapons from its own territory to Russia. https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/ukraine-nuclear-weapons-and-security-assurances-glance

Like I said, wealth taxes and/or taxing the excessive profits of energy companies. Oh, and abandoning HS2.

Three years ago.

Played at the Half Moon in Littleover, Derby last night. It's a rather odd shaped room, we're down in the bit with the pool table which sort of protrudes rearwards from the main body of the pub. @SpondonBassed lives nearby and dropped in to watch us for a while. Singer was unsure how well his voice would hold out so we dropped a couple of songs which most strain it. I managed to make more mistakes on "Make me smile" (the only song that I sing) than I have on any previous performance. And I forgot my massive floor fan. Otherwise it was all good.

I think the word everyone is looking for is "prolapsed".

The UMC204HD is good too, and has MIDI and two XLR/jack inputs rather than the one XLR and one jack of the UMC22.

I can only assume that everyone heaping praise on Starmer DGAF about the foreign aid that he's slashing for defence rather than employing wealth taxes and/or taxing the excessive profits of energy companies. Presumably he's gone this way to attract more Reform voters.

But the way it's phrased, it reads that over 50% voted for him.

Sounds like the finish that was stripped wasn't original. Maybe it started life natural. Looks like a nice bit of wood.

43.6%, so not "most", although it was a majority.

NATO for many years needed sufficient force to counter the Warsaw Pact countries - USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Since then, the Warsaw Pact has been replaced by a military alliance of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, and the non-USSR countries in the Warsaw Pact have joined NATO. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have also joined NATO. So a Free Europe military alliance without the USA should be able to stand against Russia and its allies. What's going to happen about all the US military bases dotted around Europe? Kick them all out? Either the US is going to have to keep its commitment or it's going to have to take the bases out.

Looks more like a marmalade kind of guy.

Oh, according to the mad American woman who was apparently an ambassador for the US in Trump's first term, Joe Biden started the war. I think there are no limits to the lunacy around Trump. Edit: Carla Sands. Mad as seventeen boxes of frogs.

Newsnight - one American woman churning out every Kremlin-generated trope available, and saying that Zelenskyy was making veiled threats. Penny Mordaunt grovelling to Trump. Some rational analysis too.

It's the missing link, the stage in evolution before

Thanks, yes, it was only the middle position that was puzzling me. I've ordered an on-on-on switch, must check it and see which type it is before using it.

Pride? It was self-respect, and if Zelenskyy had no self-respect, Ukraine would be a Russian vasal state by now. Trump is an absolute and utter shit, and the only ones embarrassed by this whole clusterf*ck were Vance and Trump.

I know you've now got it sorted, but for future reference, if you have a drill (ideally in a stand or a pillar drill) that will run in reverse, a small left-handed drill bit would be worth using to drill the head off as it can loosen up the screw.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/withdraw-the-state-visit-invitation-for-donald-trump

The crucial thing that Ukraine might lose is access to Starlink. Just have to wait and see what Elonia decides to do, and if he cuts off access, how much of a boycott of anything belonging to him will happen.

And the EU negotiators walked rings round the UK ones, as the EU negotiators had been negotiating trade deals with lots of different countries and the UK ones hadn't (David Davies even turned up without any notes at the start). I don't think that the UK negotiators are any worse than the US ones. However, Trump has shown how willing he is to use extortion and blackmail at a national level. If the UK negotiators are willing to walk away rather than get a shitty deal, all well and good. If they're desperate to make a deal, they'll be screwed.

14 years of deterioration wasn't damaging it then? It took that long for the party in question to fail to survive.

Looks as if it's been sweated on a lot and put away for a few years with those rusted up bridge springs and screws and the spotty pickup poles and strings. Machine heads look in pretty good order, don't think there's an issue with where it's been stored. Whoever strung it up has no idea about how to deal with string ends though. And I would guess that it ought to be half that price.

I have occasionally cited the examples of U2 and Level 42. My old band Spiral Six did indeed start with six members, but we were down to four by the second gig, and remained four until we disbanded a few years later.

We have a dreadful trade agreement in place with the EU. We need regulatory alignment, membership of the customs union, and membership of the single market.