Finally managed to connect the old Sky Box to the TV via the SCART to HDMI converter, returning all the free channels I'd lost by using the UHD TV's internal Freesat viewer. returning some semblance of order from the Favourites folder, returning a Guide that actually shows programme information immediately and returning the warm and slightly fuzzy look of standard definition, analogue telly.
Ref the Khashoggi murder. Seems to me that if principles are prostituted for gain, one has to accept the consequences and be pragmatic. Selling arms to repressive regimes has consequences when those repressive regimes do something nasty; jobs depend on the arms sales. Better we hadn't sold the arms in the first place and then we could have felt safe taking the moral high ground.
As it is, we're stuffed, although the government has to make the right noises in public, making all manner of threats about sanctions that will never be implemented. You also have to consider geopolitical motives and Saudi Arabia is a foil against Iran, ISIS and other organisations that bring instability to the Middle East and imperil oil supplies. Principles butter no parsnips.
As it is, we're stuffed, although the government has to make the right noises in public, making all manner of threats about sanctions that will never be implemented. You also have to consider geopolitical motives and Saudi Arabia is a foil against Iran, ISIS and other organisations that bring instability to the Middle East and imperil oil supplies. Principles butter no parsnips.
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