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The Japanese may have devised the idea; I refer to their crass ”innovation” Where products have barely the life of a year. Oh, the speed from launch to truncation! Every few months a new model is born – – New colour, new size, or new speed – – And the prospect of spares for a …
Boeing timeline: 29 October 2018: A 737 Max 8 operated by Lion Air crashes after leaving Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board 31 January 2019: Boeing reports an order of 5,011 Max planes from 79 customers 10 March 2019: A 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashes, killing all 157 people on board …
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Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing boss fired last month, will receive equity and pension benefits worth $62m. This was the head of a company whose staff have quietly told the Press that management are incompetent and interested mainly in maintaining profits and share price. 346 Passengers are dead because the company sold planes whose electronics were faulty, …
Yes, I know! You have better things to do than think about them. But…… Some years ago my wife and I were walking down a London street when we encountered a group of photographer on the sidewalk, looking expectantly across the street at a block of flats. “Who are you waiting for?” I asked one …
”If you thought “the thought police” existed only in Orwellian fiction, then you haven’t been following a case in the U.K High Court. Douglas Murray Miller, a former constable, had posted a few ribald tweets on the subject of transgender self-identification. (Sample: “I was assigned mammal at birth, but my orientation is fish. Don’t mis-species me”.) …
