Very true! Previous versions feature much crossing out before they get the final plantings inked in.

Heated floor mat might help too?

Sympathies, mine are also gradually healing after getting some sheepskin booties.

Tbf, it was a much-scratched home-made copy.

I’ll have a root around next time I’m not actively driving along thinking “why can’t I switch to CD mode?”

We’ll see how well it survives contact with real life!

I think the garage have half-inched the CD out of my car player! That or they took it out to put their own music on and put it “somewhere safe”.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/31/tomatoes-face-axe-labour-nonsensical-junk-food-crackdown/

Tomatoes face being stripped out of pasta sauces and ready meals under Labour’s “nonsensical” junk food crackdown.

Food chiefs have warned that government plans to label thousands of products containing sugar as unhealthy would encourage companies to replace natural ingredients with additives. […]

Kate Halliwell, the chief scientific officer at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), said companies would be likely to consider reducing the amount of fruit and vegetables from their recipes in order to escape the restrictions.

She said: “Given the majority of the UK population are already struggling to reach their recommended five-a-day and daily fibre intake, we’re concerned that an unintended consequence of this policy could be that it makes it even harder for consumers to achieve this.”

https://archive.ph/5sT6E

Not sure if this is real roadworks (on a Sunday) or if some enterprising local resident has put them up as part of the ongoing attempts to stop the day trippers from trying to drive to the local instagram spot (which you can’t reach by road).

Dog was flagging by this point, so I couldn’t go and look.

https://spectator.com/article/britain-is-becoming-a-surveillance-state-but-no-one-seems-to-care/

Over the past decade, police have increasingly used live facial recognition to identify possible criminals. Since cameras surveilled the crowd at the Notting Hill Carnival in 2016, facial recognition vans have been appearing in various parts of London and other cities, with the first permanent cameras installed in Croydon. Over the past year in England and Wales, police have scanned the faces of over seven million passers-by.

All this has happened amid rumblings of concern and in something of a regulatory vacuum. In a sleight of hand which glosses over the lack of democratic process, the Home Office presents the consultation as the beginnings of a remedy. More candidly, it admits that the purpose of a new legal framework for facial recognition is to ‘give the police sufficient confidence to use it at significantly greater scale’.

Accordingly, the consultation kicks off with a series of questions about which technologies the framework should permit, avoiding any first-principle enquiry about whether live facial recognition should be used at all. In contrast to continental Europe where the EU AI Act restricts the use of live facial recognition for law enforcement, the Home Office assumes the introduction of cameras to every town and city is simply a matter of adopting ‘a valuable tool to modern policing’.

https://archive.ph/EP3E8

Much better than breakfast!

The article explicitly addresses that point:

In fact, the sentence I quoted is wholly inaccurate: the ‘six million’ figure relates only to Jewish people. If you include the homosexuals, Sinti, Roma, disabled and Russian prisoners of war, then you would have to come up with another figure – some say as many as 11 million – who were murdered by the Nazis.

In what way?