Hi Roger, Hope you and Sue are well. I can whole heartedly verify that's true, to my ears anyway, as an ex professional sound engineer.  Atb

Betamax was far superior quality, if the rumours are correct its demise was the p*rn industry adopted VHS as their standard and thus Betamax was doomed. Minidisc was another one, it was far superior to CD but failed. Its interesting isn't it, with all the high fidelity recordings you can get these days on lossless DAPs we've lost the warm and fuzzy feeling from a decent valve and bit of kit that has been around for 60 year's or more, so people are moving back to LPs, heck even cassettes are making a comeback 

I would aver that there are differences of degree that matter

The concern is with trump and his "special advisors", is he's got Meta ( Facebook and WhatsApp ), Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey ( Twitter ), Tiktok owes him one and Bezos for the mix. Basically all social media are now in the palms of Trump. So he now controls the narrative to the youth. It's already started, certain hashtags now redirect to the opposition, search for #democrat and you are given trump's republican posts. You think Meta ditching fact checkers happened by accident last week, now way. He's famous for pushing fake truths until people believe him, now there is limited resources to fact check him.

Fun….? 

To make it double-barrelled with his mother's name.   This seems to be a trope of the urban chattering classes.  Ok, fair enough, but what happens to the next generation? Will they be Smith-Jones-Robinson-Clarkes?  And their children?  Passports will need to get bigger! Mind you, as a fan of Iain Banks' stories of "The Culture", he supposed that those people would have most elongated names, in formal terms.   One character was Diziet Sma, whose full name is Rasd-Coduresa Diziet Embless Sma da' Marenhide.   Banks said that his name in the same terms would be "Sun-Earther Iain El-Bonko Banks of North Queensferry"!    

Here, they're called 'SPADs' - SPecial ADvisors.   They have offices at No.10, just like the White House.

It amazes me that the American system allows non elected people into such positions of power.  imagine our cabinet of non elected mates of the boss.    ( I know we’ve had some prominent advisors - that went well !!!)

Looks like Lewis Hamiltons desire to change his name ( 2022) is coming to fruition    excuse the source it’s what came up first without a paywall   https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/lewis-hamilton-legally-changes-name-34467034.amp

I'm using M8 studding with back-to-back nuts so can easily adjust the heights.....so far so good . I left the bonnet untouched as the fit before was OK. So adjusted the front tub to mate with the bonnet then the doors to the tub ...last will be the rear tub to the doors....no doubt followed by some tweaking.