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I take your point that such coverage tends to be confined to the right-wing press, rather than the Guardian or Independent, but that too says something from the opposite angle. The disturbing thing is that there are real events behind many of the stories. You can say we are just talking about a few activists, but how many in the crowd cheered the "punch a TERF" call captured in this video?
I believe For Women Scotland when they say they have received death threats.
Another excellent result following a really gritty performance. As in recent games our defence generally looked very solid, apart from Tymon's one moment when he lost concentration. We still aren't clicking properly going forward, but I would say there were around four incisive moves that brought us the two goals, which is an improvement on the last game.
Depends if the trans persons think they are dealing with a "TERF", when I think a woman would definitely be at risk of harassment and possible violence.
Would one compare them with a group with a similar demographic from the general population, or is it fairer to take another campaign group which have a strong desire for something that is controversial? Not too many groups with a record of violence come to mind. Palestine Action? BLM? BNP? Anti-abortionists? I reckon the bunch who vandalised the statues yesterday would vie with any of those when it comes to one not wanting to be in their midst if they think you oppose their views.
We are told that "trans women" pose no risk, but there are a number of examples of extreme violence when somebody considers blocking their access to something they believe is their right.
When I saw recent news video of the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador I couldn't help thinking it was just the job for offenders like Abedi. No pandering to personal preferences about dress or hair style. I doubt whether even spectacles are allowed as they might be a potential weapon. With the right regime stab-proof vests wouldn't be such an issue.
And don't forget that there was a Con-Lib Dem coalition for 5 of the 14 years. Some of the Lib Dem "Orange Book" group were just as stanch in support for austerity policies as the Tories. They are not the answer either.
Probably right. I wonder if a possible way around the wage issue might be a big signing-on fee plus smaller salary, but I don't know if this is (a) possible, and (b) sufficiently attractive to O'Brien.
Seeing this thread reminded me of a half-forgotten book in my collection, and I dug out David Watkins' Merthyr Tydfil Football Club. Tempus, 1999. There are more photographs than narrative, but the book gives a very interesting overview of the high points of the club's history. There are loads of meetings with football league clubs, stirring cup runs, many achievements from the Southern League days, and a chapter on the rise to the GM Vauxhall Conference. Merthyr Tydfil FC achieved its highest league finish of 4th in the Conference in 1991-92. A previous incarnation of Merthyr Town FC was a Football League Third Division club from 1920 to 1930.
I had the same thought as many businesses or agencies already have this 3rd loo. No doubt the usual suspects will have some kind of objection. How to label?
Good result, but this was a scrappy game with few Swans' attempts on goal. I thought we had good moments in midfield, but most moves broke down in the final third. For much of the game Hull offered very little in attack, but after we scored we sat back and let them have the better of the closing stages. They could well have come away with a point. We need better forward options for next season, and without O'Brien midfield will also be threadbare. Darling's future is the other big question mark as the defence looks one of our main strengths at present.
I think the suggestion is that hydrogen can be used as the reducing gas to process iron ore via a DRI process. The sponge iron produced contains elemental carbon, but has a lower carbon content than pig iron.
The lumps or pellets produced (the sponge iron) can then be converted to steel in an electric arc furnace or electric smelting furnace.. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, this is what Tata are planning to do in the next few years in their Dutch plant. They have signed a contract to build a DRI plant that can use hydrogen, including in various mixes with other gases.
"ENERGIRON technology is extremely flexible, accommodating various hydrogen-containing reducing gases (natural gas, syngas, coke over gas, hydrogen) and iron ore qualities. It operates under diverse conditions, utilizing locally available resources at competitive prices. This versatility ensures efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly production, making ENERGIRON a robust solution for the evolving needs of the steel industry."
"Carbon content in DRI can be set as required, providing additional chemical energy to the steelmaking process. The range of carbon content is wide enough to satisfy all steelmaking needs." 0-4.5%
I'd say that we should still keep our options open and make a decision based on what emerges from the two sets of negotiations. The apparent convergence of interests on defence made me initially favour Europe, but then fish and youth mobility were thrown in as conditions for letting the UK help produce the armaments to be funded from the muted European shared defence fund. This illustrates a wider problem of rivalries and differences between EU member states, compared with the approach coming from a unified USA. If the US offered a good trade deal, in part as a way to keep the UK and EU apart, then that would be tempting, even if we had to hold our nose regarding other things, like the policy on Ukraine.
Legal clarity at last, at least in the UK for the time being. No doubt this leaves quite a lot of tidying of law and regulations for the devolved administrations to do. What strikes me is that there may still be issues at the international level, if different countries end up with different legal definitions of what a woman is.
If the Spectator is not deemed reliable, then there are other sources that suggest others besides National Rally have been naughty too.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou and his party, the Democratic Movement, faced similar recent charges of misappropriation of funds.. Bayrou was acquitted due to insufficient evidence, but the party and eight officials were found guilty. Prosecutors have appealed his acquittal, and there will be a new trial.
In 2020 the EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, reported that MEPs and staffers broke EU rules by transferring part of their salaries to national political party accounts in separate cases opened in 2017 and 2018. The two parties involved and the persons concerned were not named. The first case resulted in internal EU disciplinary action, while the second was resolved by repayment of the monies transferred.
The EU investigated allegations that assistants to MEPs from Ukip, the Tories and Labour had got involved in the UK general election campaign in 2015. No charges resulted.
You still don't get it I'm afraid. This is an issue about how political aids, who are supporting MEPs and whose salaries come from the EU, spend their time. All the MEPs are members of political parties and in the real world do not entirely separate their party work from their EU work as MEPs. The allegation from several commentators familiar with how Brussels works is that is is not uncommon for aids to interweave the two kinds of work (and possibly some associated expenses), and that breaks the rules. The Paris-based lawyer who wrote the Spectator article at the link earlier in the thread gives examples.
I am not an expert on this, but from what I have read the way forward with virgin steel is a DRI (directly-reduced iron) plant combined with either an EAF or an electric smelting furnace optimised to work with DRI (such as the Outotec furnace in link below). The DRI plant converts ore to metallic iron ("sponge iron") that can be processed into steel by the EAF/ESF. The direct reduction of iron ore uses a reducing gas that removes oxygen from the iron oxides, and one version uses hydrogen. The advantage of hydrogen over natural gas is that it produces no CO2. This is what Tata is building at its IJmuiden facility in the Netherlands. With adequate investment and preplanning of the EAF, so as to be compatible with the later addition of a DRI plant, Port Talbot could be the same.
Edit: more background here for anybody interested.
This makes an interesting comment on the advantage of an ESF over an EAF, "ESF technology offers steelmakers greater flexibility. They can either use their own DRI or trade all ranges of DRI products based on their value-in-use (VIU) analysis; in contrast DRI-EAF producers are technically limited to high-grade iron ore products." An ESF can process sponge iron made from lower grade ores as well.
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