Why don't the Canadians unilaterally decide to rename Trump to something more appropriate and insist on everyone using it?

One small scale generator does not a system make.

Hit submit too quick - it does say it was released in May - my point was it's not really news if it's that old.

The article is dated yesterday, but I've seen the button on the Guardian website for months. (I'm not a regular reader, but I like their crossword.)

I think you missed the point, it's the markup maths that's wrong, not a query about the source figures.

I'm was surprised there is any copper in a fibre optic cable. Never really given them much thought before. But to save others googling, they have high voltage power cables and boosters every 100km or so.

Why though?

While I also object to this as a matter of principal, I genuinely wouldn't care if my government knew I flew across the country. Assuming you aren't doing something dodgy, you're putting yourself though some major inconvenience to deny them a datapoint that is actually if no use to them anyway.

Firefox already supports h265

I do, but this isn't a block on simple DNS. I just tested with some of the reported urls, and am getting a webpage with 451 error.
The message says: "Cloudflare has taken steps to limit access to this website through Cloudflare's pass-through security and CDN services within the United Kingdom". I doubt the pirate sites use cloudflare at their end, so I assume it's the ISPs that are using it as some kind of proxy, or new greatfirewall of the UK, hence their involvement - ISPs delegate enforcement to them, if all their traffic is going through them anyway.

Risky strategy, sometimes that same insurance policy gets you suicided, before mysteriously disappearing. Allegedly.

Except this article is about "full fibre" and how widely available it now is, it is not about FTTC which you used to have back when you lived here. Sure, it's not at 100%, but it will have to be pretty soon as the current tiemframe BT has set to remove copper is supposed to be end of 2026 (that's been pushed back a year I think already though).

No, in the UK "fibre" might well just mean FTTC. "Full fibre" specifically means FTTP.

There is also a contraceptive coil, but that is also not likely to be where the OP suggests.

I don't think it's unreasonable to object to doing significant harm to the country side for the sake of green power, it's contradictory and unnecessary. No one objects to underground cables, it's cutting a massive track through the country side to fill with pylons that people object to for a variety of valid reasons. Burying cable costs more on paper, but probably not by the time you've gone through the legal processes to force it on everyone, and the cost of the delays these incur. The problem is trying to do the job cheap, rather than doing it properly, and achieving neither.

The UK is doing just this, of course it would be better if we were further ahead than we are. We are paying the price of a slightly uncoordinated roll out, i.e. lots of new green power generation before power lines and storage, but we are moving in the right direction and will get there in the end. For its faults, a lot of people in parts of Europe, or even the US, would love to have a grid that works as well as ours.