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The two obvious uber-considerations are
1. the accelerating trend to working from home (and not-working at all)
2. the eco-stuff

which might appear to militate against Big Projects generally exce ...

The axing of northern HS2 is a good moment to review the general place of mega-projects in the British way of life. And since we are the most advanced country in the world, in the geriatric sense of b ...

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Wrong demographic, Mr Algorithm. I'm not black and I'm not proud. In fact I'm fed up to the back teeth w ...

Lens 2 Arsenal 1

It's quite normal for clubs new to the Champions League to fare badly in their first season and fail to make it out of the group stage. After we thumped PSV I had assumed this didn ...

Dermot was asked on RefWatch whether he would have played on after learning the goal was in fact a legitimate one. He said the laws of the game would forbid him doing anything 'once the game had resta ...

Well, perhaps not always. There have been two decisive events in the Ukraine War so far:

1. Ukraine did not collapse in the first few months. Russia's war aims were thereby defeated.
2. Ukraine's ...

More headlines today about inernational support cracking for Ukraine, but is this the case? The Germans are now clearly leading the way in a very signifcant European-wide effort. Things have moved on, ...

Fulham 0 Chelsea 2

I hadn't realised that the aforementioned Jacksonville Jaguars are owned by the owner of Fulham. So welcome, NFL, to Craven Cottage. I hope he's better clued in than Chelsea's ne ...

Maybe you are right. I just can't see it. If anything Europe is more than ever enthusiastic to support Ukraine, the EU has already announced more than €70bn (£60bn) of military and civilian assista ...

I got a taste of the north-south rail divide for myself yesterday when seeing someone off at Heathrow, and while the HS2 brouhaha was kicking off at the Tory Conference in Manchester.

The Piccadill ...

Shoigu is in partial agreement with you, in that he contends Russia is winning the war, but his belief is they will only acheive final victory by 2025.
This is the opposite to what I am saying.

...

Overall, the Bronze Age lasted from the late fourth millennium to the early first millennium BCE—but with different beginnings and ends depending on the region of the world. Bronze, an alloy of copp ...

Berger and his fellow authors refute this, saying, "The data does not support this interpretation; it does not allow a clear conclusion."
This seems to suggest that tin can be traced back ...

Speaking of means, motive and opportunity, I've just posted up why people go on modern day gold rushes here https://medium.com/@mickxharper/the-new-klondyke-179d6f0f2a31

"Even 40 years after the Uluburun discovery, the tin puzzle remains, although we are getting closer to solving it by applying new methods," says Ernst Pernicka, senior professor at the Unive ...

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Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 614 Views: 105120	Forum: Politics Posted: 8:10 am Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 614 Views: 105120	The two obvious uber-considerations are 1. the accelerating trend to working from home (and not-working at all) 2. the eco-stuff which might appear to militate against Big Projects generally exce ...
Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 614 Views: 105120	Forum: Politics Posted: 7:50 am Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 614 Views: 105120	The axing of northern HS2 is a good moment to review the general place of mega-projects in the British way of life. And since we are the most advanced country in the world, in the geriatric sense of b ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2064 Views: 363576	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:07 am Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2064 Views: 363576	Black and Proud Explore our Black and Proud collection #BlackHistoryMonth Channel 4 email Wrong demographic, Mr Algorithm. I'm not black and I'm not proud. In fact I'm fed up to the back teeth w ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3634 Views: 500770	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:43 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3634 Views: 500770	Lens 2 Arsenal 1 It's quite normal for clubs new to the Champions League to fare badly in their first season and fail to make it out of the group stage. After we thumped PSV I had assumed this didn ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3634 Views: 500770	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:07 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3634 Views: 500770	Dermot was asked on RefWatch whether he would have played on after learning the goal was in fact a legitimate one. He said the laws of the game would forbid him doing anything 'once the game had resta ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	Forum: Politics Posted: 3:46 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	Well, perhaps not always. There have been two decisive events in the Ukraine War so far: 1. Ukraine did not collapse in the first few months. Russia's war aims were thereby defeated. 2. Ukraine's ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	Forum: Politics Posted: 3:41 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	More headlines today about inernational support cracking for Ukraine, but is this the case? The Germans are now clearly leading the way in a very signifcant European-wide effort. Things have moved on, ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3634 Views: 500770	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 1:45 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3634 Views: 500770	Fulham 0 Chelsea 2 I hadn't realised that the aforementioned Jacksonville Jaguars are owned by the owner of Fulham. So welcome, NFL, to Craven Cottage. I hope he's better clued in than Chelsea's ne ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	Forum: Politics Posted: 1:23 pm Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	Maybe you are right. I just can't see it. If anything Europe is more than ever enthusiastic to support Ukraine, the EU has already announced more than €70bn (£60bn) of military and civilian assista ...
Topic: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4281 Views: 574471	Forum: Politics Posted: 11:46 am Subject: Questions Of The Day
Mick Harper Replies: 4281 Views: 574471	I got a taste of the north-south rail divide for myself yesterday when seeing someone off at Heathrow, and while the HS2 brouhaha was kicking off at the Tory Conference in Manchester. The Piccadill ...
Topic: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	Forum: Politics Posted: 11:12 am Subject: Politics, The Final Frontier
Mick Harper Replies: 1477 Views: 224005	Shoigu is in partial agreement with you, in that he contends Russia is winning the war, but his belief is they will only acheive final victory by 2025. This is the opposite to what I am saying. ...
Topic: Mega-Talk
Mick Harper Replies: 805 Views: 210744	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 3:10 pm Subject: Mega-Talk
Mick Harper Replies: 805 Views: 210744	Overall, the Bronze Age lasted from the late fourth millennium to the early first millennium BCE—but with different beginnings and ends depending on the region of the world. Bronze, an alloy of copp ...
Topic: Mega-Talk
Mick Harper Replies: 805 Views: 210744	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 2:46 pm Subject: Mega-Talk
Mick Harper Replies: 805 Views: 210744	Berger and his fellow authors refute this, saying, "The data does not support this interpretation; it does not allow a clear conclusion." This seems to suggest that tin can be traced back ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2497 Views: 431026	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:28 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2497 Views: 431026	Speaking of means, motive and opportunity, I've just posted up why people go on modern day gold rushes here https://medium.com/@mickxharper/the-new-klondyke-179d6f0f2a31
Topic: Mega-Talk
Mick Harper Replies: 805 Views: 210744	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 12:16 pm Subject: Mega-Talk
Mick Harper Replies: 805 Views: 210744	"Even 40 years after the Uluburun discovery, the tin puzzle remains, although we are getting closer to solving it by applying new methods," says Ernst Pernicka, senior professor at the Unive ...