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  1. Danllan

    Islam

    This isn't an attack on or criticism on Islam for being a 'religion' in the general sense, because to me as a rational atheist all religions are as absurd in that regard. But I'll be interested to know the views of others about the nature of Islam itself. Many religions have and have had...
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    What is your time, or that of anyone else really worth?

    I ask because I've just received a mail from a friend who, being rather p!ssed off with the state of the roads here, has been pushing the County Council to actually do something about it. Said friend has a manufacturing business employing about forty people, so he pays his fair portion of tax...
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    Hungary...

    Cards on the table... I'm not a fan of the EU, I know it will be a surprise to some, but there it is. Nonetheless... I do have a fair amount of sympathy for the EU as far as Hungary is concerned. And even with arch-EUro-git Guy Verhofstadt, who has now delivered a withering attack on Hungary...
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    Victimhood IS in the mind...

    An interesting experiment with, nowadays, rather predictable results, interesting.
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    Poll number 3 on mass immigration

    This is about mass immigration only, not about targeted immigration or marriage to British nationals, or legitimate workers, students etc.
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    Poll number 2 on mass immigration

    This is about mass immigration only, not about targeted immigration or marriage to British nationals etc.; it refers to a fantasy situation, not mass deportations of people already in the UK.
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    Poll number 1 on mass immigration

    This is about mass immigration only, not about targeted immigration or marriage to British nationals.
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    Graduated driving licences...

    Not a happy story at bottom, a woman lost her son with three other boys and is now campaigning for graduated driving licences. Of course one can understand her anguish, and some changes do seem reasonable, but... Among other things, the idea of not being able to carry passengers until 25 years...
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    Pontins...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68304818
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    Hungary and the EU

    With rumours (now known to be factual) that there are internal EU briefings regarding inflicting severe economic pain on Hungary unless Orban joins the other EU members in their support for Ukraine... what do supporters of the EU think should happen? The EU, like NATO, doesn't have a specific...
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    A good idea from Estonia and a petition to Parliament about it...

    Estonia has committed 0.25% of its GDP to help fund Ukraine for the next four years, and it is hoping others will do so. I think this is a fine idea and should be for the duration and then a decade after to ensure successful reconstruction. If every NATO country did this it would mean an...
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    APHA and bluetongue detection...

    This is a serious subject and some poor buggers have it on their place, and they have my sympathy because the chances of them being at fault is very remote. But... It seems to me a very strange thing that the e-mail updates from APHA only ever seem to mention '...two new cases..' Is this...
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    Best rooting powder / compound for hardwood cuttings?

    Any suggestions? I want to propagate some particularly prolific nut and fruit trees from some hedges to use as gap fillers elsewhere. Now seems a good time to get this done and I am generally ignorant on the subject. Thanks in advance.
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    Immigration - Denmark has got it right.

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    Netherlands General Election

    Polls close at 2000hrs our time, and predictions are that the Rutte years are well and truly over. There is a chance of the Netherlands having its first female PM, the daughter of Turkish immigrants who is to the right of the centre-right and stood on an anti-immigration ticket... There is also...
  16. Danllan

    The law needs changing

    See link below, manifestly unfair and unjust. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66928735
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    Current best / worst mobile broadband provider and firm to deal with?

    I've finally had enough of BT and their bloody awful copper service here, and mobile broadband is the only realistic alternative. I've been through a few threads and noted that, other than a general condemnation of BT (which I share in!), there are mixed opinions regarding who to use and that...
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    White Tailed Sea Eagle reintroduction to Wales

    Had a day out at the British Bird of Prey Centre today, a birthday treat for a small girl with a passion for owls. Had a chat with the staff about the eagles they had there and the discussion turned toward the imminent reintroduction of the White Tailed Sea Eagle to Wales. It is already back in...
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    Remoaners / rejoiners aren't all honest, and many are afraid to answer awkward questions...

    Here is the first one of oh so many, which I have asked many times on TFF and have not yet had a single response to, it is always sidestepped, do your best ladies... When people against joining the EEC, complained of seeing no economic benefit, just price rises and more bureaucracy etc., for...
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    India and space...

    Is it a sensible use of India's national resources - and foreign aid (including ours) - to spend £1.5bns annually on space, when it has >200,000,000 people who can't get enough food, an appalling social service and health system, dreadful infrastructure, increased military liabilities etc. etc.?
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