Missing Emergency Alert

Just 30 minutes ago the UK was meant to test a nationwide all handsets Emergency Alert system... They did, my wife received the message and we saw someone at the Crucible in Sheffield at the Snooker also get the alert.

But I didn't get it.... Precious few others I know seem to have received it, in total I can say two, the strange on the Tele and the Wife, that's it... No-one else has mentioned getting int, quite the opposite, lots of people interested in the technology didn't receive the message.

So what gives?

Has there been some technical glitch?

Did handsets turn out to not be compatible?

Did some spam protection in the networks stop the message?

It is curious, and I'd love to find out more.

Disgusted by the BBC (Taiwan & Ukraine)

I'd like to bring a heart warming post this Easter Monday; but I can't... Instead I just sat down and listened to the 1 o'clock news by the BBC and I'm shocked, annoyed and disgusted by their describing Taiwan as a "self governing province".

Taiwan is a country in it's own right!  I admit a fall out of the Chinese civil war, but the BBC describing Taiwan so is like my British head calling the Republic of Ireland a "Self Governing Province"... or Canada, or New Zealand, or Australia.  It would simply not be tolerated.

And I think this narrative can only be for one purpose, to placate Beijing!

I say, this Chinese exercise to "encircle Taiwan" is illegal, should be utterly condemned, not just in the strongest words but by physical action to see them off.

And whilst I'm at it, the same rhetoric left to the humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine and I can only express my opinion that the west needs to stop with the words and act.

A warmonger I am happy to be called, if just one person retains their own self determined liberty, and that is what is at stake with Russian in Eastern Europe, and with China as a whole.  Countries led by literal megalomaniacs, unlike  me who hold the free world hostage!