For perhaps the first time in my life I have experienced ‘fomo’ – fear of missing out. It is strange to feel this teenage sentiment now I am safely in my forties, and even odder that it should occur in relation to a party political conference in Liverpool. Yet as I sat watching videos from Your Party’s first conference this week, there was no way to avoid the feeling that I had missed out on something big – a feeling only intensified by the likelihood that Your Party’s first conference will also be its last.

It pains me that I should have missed out on the opportunity to see some of this week’s events in person – beginning with the fact that party founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana fell out before the conference began, with Sultana boycotting its first day. Perhaps because of this infighting, the party members ended up voting for neither MP to lead the party and instead approved a model of ‘collective leadership’.

Watching the people who took to the podium gives you some idea of how well this ‘collective leadership’ is likely to go. For instance, there was a gangly young chap who introduced himself by saying that his name is Joseph and that he uses ‘she/they’ pronouns. Joseph next mentioned that he comes from West Yorkshire but had recently moved to Edinburgh. He stated this last detail in that style of ‘upspeak’ which left the impression – accentuated by a slight pause afterwards – that Joseph either wasn’t sure if he had recently moved to Edinburgh, or imagined that such a move deserved some ovation.

Without doubt Joseph was a star of the conference. While first on stage he wore what appeared to be a hand-knitted bobble-hat in the colours of the Pride flag. This probably gave the audience some hint as to whether Joseph belonged to the Islamic wing of the party or the trans wing of the party. (That’s not to say that these two wings cannot get along, of course: Your Party is evidence that they can get along perfectly well for several minutes.)

Joseph informed conference that when it came to the party’s organisational strategy, he was advocating for ‘Option A’, which would allow it to stand candidates as widely as possible. He acknowledged the concerns of some delegates with this option, including the possibility that it will ‘allow transphobic and racist and otherwise bigoted candidates to stand in the name of Your Party’. He went on to refer to two MPs who he said ‘had recently resigned after making transphobic comments’. At this point the chairwoman tried to cut him off – a move that the Your Party chairpeople had to grow used to.

Allowed back on stage later – this time without his hat – Joseph was one of a number of speakers who admitted to being a member of something called ‘Socialist Alternative’ and thus ‘very against the purges of our comrades in the Socialist Workers party’.

Another star of conference was a Scouser whose name and sex appeared indeterminate. They announced themselves as ‘a non-binary person’, at which point she (on re-watching it I’m inclining towards ‘she’) shouted: ‘Give it up for the trans people everybody!’ Some of the hall whooped. Egged on, the speaker continued: ‘Thank you, comrades. And it’s an honour and a privilege to be stood speaking on this podium today. The reason I am saying yes to socialism in this political statement is because as a trans comrade, as a disabled comrade, as a mad comrade, as a neurodivergent comrade…’ It isn’t often in political life that people actually announce that they are mad, though it certainly provides their critics with a shortcut.

Not that Your Party needs outside critics. There are enough on the inside. Last month, MPs Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed quit Your Party for reasons that are, like every-thing else, disputed. Sadly, when Sultana finally did speak to the conference she found herself heckled over the loss of these MPs. A male Muslim speaker from the floor insisted there had been a purge of people with ‘conservative’ views.

Lest anyone fall into the misunderstanding that Your Party has been infiltrated by the Conservative party, a solution to the riddle was soon provided. It appears that Hussain quit because – unforeseeably – he wasn’t fully on board the trans train. Which in turn led Sultana to accuse him of ‘bigotry’. With this now finally out in the open, Sultana responded by accusing her Muslim interrupter of misogyny. ‘Sorry, this is my speech,’ she said, truthfully enough. ‘It is misogyny. It is misogyny.’ At which point another activist started shouting: ‘We should not be screaming over each other.’

Outside the main hall a young white woman in a keffiyeh confronted Corbyn to clear up the question of whether or not he is ‘anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist’. A clearly frustrated Corbyn said: ‘Look, I’m fed up with being painted into a corner as being some kind of pro-Zionist.’ If you, or anyone you know, has ever spotted that corner or that paint then write in and I will send you a cash prize.

Amid a gathering crowd, Corbyn’s tormentor pushed on. A man with the distinction of being the former leader of both the Labour party and now of Your Party was put through a struggle session over his anti-Zionist credentials. This included the charge that he has been insufficiently supportive of ‘the resistance in Palestine’. Eventually Corbyn exploded: ‘What do you think I’ve spent my life doing?’ It was both a plaintive question and an easy one to answer. What Corbyn and his friends have spent their lives doing – most recently with Your Party – is trying to smelt electoral gold from incompatible metals.

Perhaps my regret at not attending this year’s conference should be overridden by pity for those who were let in. Most of them seemed to be the sort of people who should never be allowed out.

Written by
Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is associate editor of The Spectator and author of The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason, among other books.

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Retro Style VFO Has Single-Digit Parts Count

Not every project has to be complicated– reinventing the wheel has its place, but sometimes you find a module or two that does exactly what you want, and the project is more than halfway done. That the kind of project [mircemk]’s Simple Retro Style VFO is — it’s a variable frequency oscillator for HAM and other use, built with just a couple of modules.
Strictly speaking, this is all you need for the project.
The modules in question are the SI5351 Clock Generator module, which is a handy bit of kit with its own crystal reference and PLL to generate frequencies up to 150 MHz, and the Elecrow CrowPanel 1.28inch-HMI ESP32 Rotary Display. The ESP32 in the CrowPanel controls the SI5351 module via I2C; control is via the rest of the CrowPanel module. This Rotary Display is a circular touchscreen surrounded by a rotary display, so [mircmk] has all the inputs he needs to control the VFO.

To round out the parts count, he adds an appropriate connector, plus a power switch, red LED and a lithium battery. One could include a battery charger module as well, but [mircmk] didn’t have one on hand. Even if he had, that still keeps the parts count well inside the single digits. If you like video, we’ve embedded his about the project below; if not the write up on Hackaday.io is upto [mircmk]’s typical standard.

People have been using the SI5351 to make VFOs for years now, but the addition of the round display makes for a delightfully retro presentation.

Thanks to [mircmk] for the tip.

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LoRa Repeater Lasts 5 Years on PVC Pipe and D Cells

Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s clever LoRaTube project.
PVC pipe houses a self-contained LoRa repeater, complete with a big stack of D-size alkaline cells.
LoRa is a fantastic solution for long-range and low-power wireless communication (and popular, judging by the number of projects built around it) and LoRaTube provides an autonomous repeater, contained entirely in a length of PVC pipe. Out the top comes the antenna and inside is all the necessary hardware, along with a stack of good old D-sized alkaline cells feeding a supercap-buffered power supply of his own design. It’s weatherproof, inexpensive, self-contained, and thanks to extremely low standby current should last a good five years by [Bertrand]’s reckoning.

One can make a quick LoRa repeater in about an hour but while the core hardware can be inexpensive, supporting electronics and components (not to mention enclosure) for off-grid deployment can quickly add significant cost. Solar panels, charge controllers, and a rechargeable power supply also add potential points of failure. Sometimes it makes more sense to go cheap, simple, and rugged. Eighteen D-sized alkaline cells stacked in a PVC tube is as rugged as it is affordable, especially if one gets several years’ worth of operation out of it.

You can watch [Bertrand] raise a LoRaTube repeater and do a range test in the video (French), embedded below. Source code and CAD files are on the project page. Black outdoor helper cat not included.

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В тимчасово окупованому Криму "примари" ГУР "відмінусували" винищувач МіГ-29.

Атака була здійснена на військовий аеродром "Кача".

🙌 Під удар також потрапив аеродромний радіолокаційний комплекс "Іртиш" поблизу тимчасово окупованого Сімферополя.

До Києва прибув Президент Кіпру на тлі підготовки країни до головування у Раді ЄС.

Очікується, що Нікос Христодулідіс зустрінеться із Зеленським.

Сі Цзіньпін на зустрічі з президентом Франції заявив, що Китай підтримує ідею мирної угоди щодо України, "прийнятної для всіх сторін".

🇨🇳🇨🇳Він також сподівається, що сторони зможуть досягти справедливого і тривалого миру шляхом діалогу, а Пекін, зі свого боку, підтримує будь-які зусилля для цього

Білий дім перейменував Інститут миру на честь Трампа, інформує CNN.

Напередодні адміністрація Трампа фактично закрила інститут, скасувавши його федеральне фінансування на наступний рік.

У КНДР є табори "перевиховання" українських дітей з ТОТ, яких мілітаризують та русифікують", – заявила експертка міжнародного правосуддя на слуханні Сенату.

За даними Рашевської, російська влада утримує дітей у росії, Білорусі та Північній Кореї, створивши щонайменше 165 таких таборів.

Генасамблея ООН ухвалила резолюцію з вимогою до рф негайно повернути всіх незаконно вивезених українських дітей.

Проти виступили країни: росія, Білорусь, Буркіна-Фасо, Бурунді, Куба, Демократична Республіка Конго, Еритрея, Іран, Малі, Нікарагуа, Нігер і Судан

A grim reminder that #Russia GRU actually killed an entirely unrelated and innocent civilian in their sloppy and reckless chemical weapons attack in 2018:

The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, is now sanctioned in its entirety by the UK. GRU agents carry out Putin’s bidding, seeking to destabilise Ukraine and attempting to sow chaos and disorder across Europe. The action comes as the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry publishes its final report into the tragic circumstances surrounding Dawn Sturgess’s death in Salisbury in 2018.

Today’s sanctions also zero in on 8 cyber military intelligence officers for working for the GRU, the organisation which was responsible for cyber operations targeting Yulia Skripal with X-agent malware and, 5 years later, the attempted murder of Yulia and her father on UK soil.

The report concludes that the GRU is responsible for the death of a British national on UK soil after President Putin himself authorised the operation to poison the Skripal’s with deadly nerve agent Novichok. This Novichok was developed and held by Russia in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention. This subsequently resulted in the tragic death of Ms Sturgess.

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