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At least they've entered peacefully. More than can be said for the British when they invaded countries all over the world, stealing them and their resources, renaming them and treating their peoples appallingly with extreme violence and even enslaving them. What is happening now with...

From the late 1890s for about a decade, track racing early electric assisted bicycles was apparently a popular fad. Early cycling held many oddities like this. Calling rechargeable batteries accumulators historic too. Even in my long lifetime I remember how we took the transparent glass...

Humber had a second go at an e-tandem in 1899: Lead acid batteries and didn't appear to have any brakes! Previous year model below:

Yes, time flies, especially as one get's older, it was beginning of March 2018, so seven years and six months ago. The objections have some validity, but also balancing factors: Expensive? Yes, but the gap is closing and long life reliability means changing cars far less often. I bought mine...

Prompted the mischievous thought that Usain Bolt is a pedestrian and he can reach 26mph! ;) .

I've continued to do my annual checks on the range of my Nissan Leaf, easy to do without anywhere near emptying the battery since tests have shown the dashboard indicated range has been very accurate. That odometer initially shows a loss of 4 or 5 miles after charging to full, then maintains...

Battery powered GWR train breaks world long distance record on a single charge .

It is of course already a crime to injure anyone or do damage in many circumstances, so no additonal legislation necessary. However, making it legal to cycle on any footpath is opening the floodgates, so it's worth looking at the background to Boateng's permission. By the 1980s with near...

Wrong. While it is true that the EU is not a democracy, it exists to ultimately achieve a democratic parliamentary country called Europe. Since that is its sole purpose, it cannot be ANTI-democracy. To achieve its aim, agreed by its member countries to be desirable, it of necessity cannot be...

No we did not have anything like adequate human rights law, sometimes quite the opposite. Why else would Churchill have consided that a new human rights law was required? Why else would Sir David Maxwell-Fyffe draft new law? Now you are being ridiculous, we don't have a long history of...

That is permitted. Cyclists can ride on the pavement in some circumstances, details quoted below. Read right through to the end, showing this still applies: "On 1st August 1999, new legislation came into force to allow a fixed penalty notice to be served on anyone who is guilty of cycling on a...

Nonsense, when will you learn. Most charging takes place overnight when dermand is low and there's plenty of capacity. And 2035 is when we have to stop buying IC cars, not when all cars are electric. That won't happen until well over 20 years later, between 2055 and 2060. .

Following the appalling events of WW2. Winston Churchill decided that a Human Rights law was desirable and appointed British politician and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe to produce one. Trouble was that no UK government was prepared to adopt it. Long afterwards the EU also had the same...

I agree that and know that the majority share that view, demonstrating that I am not living in any sort of bubble.. But we can't do that sort of thing any more, which would show that we are no better than the offenders. Where would you stop? Boat people next? .

Thank you for reposting a post I stick by. You don't have me fooled any more than Powell did, whatever you might have been in the past, you are now very far right. Just wanting to cage those you consider offenders, Guantanamo style, makes you so. .