Oh and if you're going "all this delay is due to JCVI" - yes, it seems JCVI not willing to do this has not helped. How much is JCVI, how much is the approval? I don't know. But approval was delayed *due to Brexit* - that is beyond dispute.
Also tweets using some completely other metric to show UK has administered more boosters or whatever are also *totally irrelevant* here. I don’t deny UK did well with its vaccine approval and procurement at the start. And gets doses in arms speedily. That’s not the point.
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I have been the happy owner of a Gaggia Classic for years (it's fab), but need a 2nd coffee machine for somewhere else. The original Gaggia Baby is like a Classic with a plastic case
I bought this for €10, sold as defective, on Kleinanzeigen
Second, what was wrong?
Upon opening the machine (4 screws - easy) it was clear there was some severe corrosion at the *top* of the machine
4 t-shaped plugs connect power to the boiler - one was melted through, 3 seriously corroded
Brussels geography (thanks, but I lived 4yrs there and go all the time)
Schengen (thanks, but I ran a campaign website about it, blogged on it years)
Repairing electronics (my tweet was about how I’ve been repairing for years)
Timetables of night trains (thanks, but I work on this, and run @TrainsForEurope)
Mechanics of a Tory leadership contest (thanks, but do you think I’ve not checked it before writing about it?)
Really folks, I might well be WRONG with the conclusions I draw, but I’m not ill informed. It might be a fair assumption that I have checked the background!
🤔 When does a Tory leadership election now happen?
Right away looks unlikely - COVID situation is too much of a mess. Would prompt accusation of navel gazing by Tories in a pandemic.
March also is tricky. UK might be emerging from the worst of a COVID wave, but then local elections and NI elections in May are in view. Plus Art 16/Protocol needs sorting by then.
So this afternoon I wondered... what happened to those "Missing Links" in the European rail network Micheal Cramer used to write about when he was a MEP?
I use geodisic distance to calculate the longest trip - basically the two points on the globe furthest apart nominally connected by rail, taking into account the curvature of the earth
Any such really long route is impossible without a bit of walking in a few places
But I have two workable variants...
Heavy rail and walking *only* is
Cascais 🇵🇹 - Woodlands 🇸🇬
11904.73 km
Add trams and metros and it's
Praia das Maçãs 🇵🇹 - Changji MRT 🇸🇬
11923.23 km