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So, your boss has got hold of some new shiny piece of technology, and they’ve decided they don’t need you anymore. What can you do about it? J. Draper looks at the Wapping Dispute of 1986 to learn more.

In 2019, Amsterdam published their plan to become a (nearly) car-free city. Seven years later, have they done what they said they would?

At Warwick Castle, there's a 22-tonne medieval siege engine. I got to see how it works, meet the person in charge, and -- technically -- help fire it. Technically.

We are a little bit cool on the hot new trend in publishing.

i'm a real boy, boy and i cry

In Derbyshire, at the National Ferret School, I say "hello" to some smelly thieves, and go on a surprisingly Biblical tangent.

so cute

At Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, I get to fulfill a childhood dream: but more importantly, I ask whether a telescope built in the 1950s can still do useful science.

The nerding out in this episode is just lovely

In Lancashire, at National Rail's Manchester signalling classroom, I learn why it's very, very rare for trains to collide... and then go to an actual, live signal box to see it for real.

Not all of yall... but a few

I am unequivocally a supporter of a free Palestine. I see Palestine as a colonised nation and no, I do not believe Israel has a right to exist because it is an imperial project and cannot exist as anything but an imperial project. I do not even condemn Hamas. And I've had this stance on decolonisation for years if you pay attention...You cannot put limitations on how a colonised people fight their oppressors. So no, I won't condemn Hamas, the same way I wouldn't condemn the Mau Maus in Kenya or the Nat Turner Slave Rebellions or the Haitian Revolution or the IRA in Ireland. All of these entities were called terrorists at the time of their existence by their oppressors and all are recognised as liberation movements today, despite the ugliness those movements may have existed in. And I believe Hamas will eventually be seen in the same light.

I would love if violence didn't have to occur and there are anti-colonial movements that do happen to occur with minimal violence. But it's not fair to call any anti-colonial violence senseless, because it is a direct response to the condition that the colonised are living under. And the thing to keep in mind is that Palestinians didn't just start getting genocided by Israel on October 7th, 2023.

The highest point in the Netherlands is Vaalserberg, at 322.4 metres above sea level. Or is it? As it turns out, "The Netherlands" is not as well-defined as you might think, and the reality is a lot more interesting.