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democracies are imperfect methods of governing. Does it matter if the voting age is lowered from 18 to 16? Participartion of 16-18 year olds is low in any case. More worrying is the rise of corruption mainly by the oligarchs buying politicians. They have always done that but now made easier with...

I rode a 20" folding bike with belt for a while when I got some made. Absolutely loved it. Quiet, easy to fold, no muck and lighter than chain. Why it didn't sell better despite low price (649), I never understood that. Later when it started to sell, the factory upped their price and I abandoned...

I suppose the rent from a house in a reasonably good area in London would suffice to cover living cost of a good sized family in Calabria...

Trump's tariffs are going to be tested very soon. US inflation begins to rise, Canada, China and the BRICS, and now the EU are ready to retaliate.

That video is nasty for no good reason. You can disagree with her views and or her political side but using caricature to make ridicule her looks or her voice is totally unnecessary.

China uses its trade surpluses to buy up European businesses, especially in renewables to help with selling Chinese wind turbines and solar panels to Europeans. What a surprise!

I remember Harris gracefully congratulated DJT shortly after the count, as soon as the swing states declared the winners. Harris has never suggested any cheat or missing votes.

The last article is behind a pay wall so I could not read it but as I understand, the EU is not looking to fight Trump. It has no interest in making inflation in the EU worse nor disrupting US supply to EU businesses. Von der Lyen just wants more time.

The two situations are completely different. Trump only accepts the result of an election if he won. If he lost, the other side must have cheated. It's the same with the Epstein file. Obama and Clinton must have written it. Give it 16 months, you'll see if he still claims that he is cheated...

EFTA would suit you but probably not the majority of Irish. EFTA is outside the Single Market, you don't have the 4 freedoms of the Single Market like posting a parcel without paperwork. EFTA has about 100 bilateral agreements with the EU on trade. It's pretty messy paperwork to deal with when...

It's the quatorze juillet fête nationale, aka Bastille Day, holiday in France today.

so you do like to keep the solar farms? I am typing this while on child minding duty in Paris atm. It's 14th July, military airplanes did a few minute flypass this morning.

The point I tried to make to you is laws and people need to have their views tested at intervals. A vote is only a snapshot of public sentiments at that time. If you have to choose between the Swiss style of democracy and Trump's style of democracy, which one do you go for? On the subject of...

I don't know what you saw in the short video that you shared. The video itseft wasn't controversial but barely if at all contained anything useful. When the grid had enough supply to meet demand, it changed the feed-in tariff to negative. Producers would be charged if they don't disconnect. So...

In that 2024 referendum, about one million or one third of the electorate voted no. How can you be sure that is the same as the will of the majority when the turnout is low? If 1.5 million had voted yes, then you can be sure but below 40%, it should be retested in the next parliamentary cycle.

Have you visited China or Hong-Kong? If you haven't, I highly recommend those places. Mao took over a backward country (in his own words), industrialised it, Deng reformed it and now Xi turning it into the next first world empire. Professor Richard Wolf wrote a thesis on its strategies. You can...

Not a U turn. The Japanese target mature markets while the Chinese target novel solutions. Japanese automakers are more concerned with reliability and safety than Chinese. They have been waiting for solid state batteries to become mainstream which should be next year or 2027. Toyota has already...

Elections have limited terms, so why not referenda? We have a stupid situation with brexit. Polls after polls confirmed that the result was not just very narrow but also would be reversed if a new brexit referendum was run again. As is, Starmer are hemmed in by the last referendum so he cannot...

The low turnout is fundamentally undemocratic. That should be enough reason to rerun the referendum.

I did not agree with the idea that Obama should win the Peace Prize, I sarcastically put the reason in double quotes. Still, now that obama was given it, I wonder if it should be given to trump. The reason is that could inspire him to see the good in other countries.