Well, if the tories - and Truss particularly - had remained in power until then, I can imagine that a lot of people would be taking extreme measure to get away, so I can see her point.

Yes. For one thing, we have Reform in place in Suffolk, since the others didn’t run a full campaign, on the basis that it was all going to be unitary within 24 months. Now they will be there for the full term.

I had a ghettoblaster with tape-to-tape at some point in the '80s and certainly copied a couple of albums that way - but I’ve never really been into music that much, so it wouldn’t have been many.

Prior to that we did have a horrible old mono tape recorder which I used to record some HHGTTG episodes on it’s original radio transmission by standing it beside the radio and begging the family to be quiet. I may even have those tapes somewhere - for sentimental value. They were appalling quality as you would expect.

And just a day or after a similar outcome with a Palestine activists’ trial:

https://leminal.space/post/36704056