Maybe, but if 'we can't afford anything', it's partly because the government spaffs billions on inefficient bureaucracy.

It doesn't matter what it's called

Oh, right. Was NHS England already being scrapped before Starmer, erm, just made a major announcement about NHS England being scrapped?

Starmer isn't going to do anything of the sort. It's already happening anyway. He just says this to produce this reaction from you both and many others like you.

Looks like a lot more fans will be seeking discount tickets for home matches soon.🙄

Wow sir kier turning Tory,goodbye NHS England

Fair play to Keir Starmer for DOGE-ing the NHS.

His standing foot clearly nudged the ball before he kicked it. Shame, i wanted Ateti to win so it would be an open last eight

I see VAR is now being used in penalty shootouts as well

The tanker was in effect in a ships carpark which the other vessels knew about having been employed on the route regularly so would have known of this. As others have said, ⏰ alarms would be going on board, regardless of any blocking or jammer type security measures they may have. I think it's certahuman error, the cause however remains to be discovered.

That link tries to force push notifications on me Alan, won't let me select "no thanks"

It does sound like a cock-up rather than a conspiracy.

Have that too (I hope!) but again, how well was it being monitored? The ship hit should have had collision alarms sounding but it was at anchor and would have been helpless, a sitting duck.

Alan - that’s brilliant 🤪😂

Thanks Trebs. So ships don't have traditional radar any more? Presumably on grounds of cost?

We're okay, our local football club will sort them out. Totally regimental and disciplined [Link]

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Ship AIS broadcasts a ship's location. Looking at the tracking, it looks like Solong regularly does that route with autopilot switched on. It didn't deviate or slow before the collision. So the Q really is what happened to the watch keeper? Asleep on the bridge? Medical emergency? If not, did the collision warning systems not work or were they overridden? Imagine there'll be changes to recommended procedures in some way.

Alan IoW - won’t be long before the pesky Ruskies will be circling your island, and Trump will refuse to help out unless you give him access to all of the minerals at Alum Bay… 🤪

You also need to factor in that the Russians have form in being stealthy in regards to what their craft are doing iin and around our waters. Recently they were doing a reckie into the powerlines with Scandinavia.in the North Sea. Frequently disguising their ships to appear to be one thing and having a different use altogether. There's plenty of info out there.

Radio-silent I can understand but not radar-silent unless it had stealth capabilities.

... and you're trying to tell me that Ukraine sent 350-odd drones to Moscow and managed to shatter just one window?

Russian vodka is strong, once in Portugal never again ,knocked 3 of us out

Or the Mary Celeste, if you were around at the time

However far-fetched some of the theories about what happened may be, none of them sounds more far-fetched than what actually happened on the Costa Concordia.