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Really doesn't matter who actually owns them from the point of view of maintenance. If they are not being maintained according to proper manufacturers' documentation, it might be difficult to establish future airworthiness.

But ancient USA automobiles are, technologically, simple and way behind current technology. Like antilock braking systems. (Even if you abandon the actual antilock feature, modern braking systems are designed around them.) Maintenance of existing vehicles becomes difficult. (I know my car had...

If this article represents the reality, Russia - more particularly Russian citizens - seem to be starting to hit a mass of serious problems. Even if Ukraine were sorted out tomorrow, and sanctions lifted, the impact could continue for years. I can imagine international flying being hit by...

Rishi looks less popular by the day: Sunak blamed for losing £11bn in servicing UK government debt Treasury failed to take out insurance against rate rises on almost £900bn in QE reserves, say economists https://www.ft.com/content/90025f48-858f-40c5-a011-3f285f05e775

EMBOLDENED Boris Johnson will cut bills left, right and centre in his most radical move yet to ease the cost-of-living crisis. Express front page 9th June 2022. Yet more lies. The reason is to avoid getting kicked out - not for you, me or anyone else. And I don't believe he can cut all our...

British Virgin Islands: UK decides against direct rule of territory The UK has decided not to impose direct rule on the British Virgin Islands, despite a report finding gross failures of governance in the territory. The review said the BVI's constitution should be suspended and its government...

Catch up with the devolved nations! Failing that: If prescription charges are deemed appropriate (which they have been, so far, in England); And, if there is a pre-payment certificate option available (which there is); Then I'd rather see the two merged. Each time you pay for a prescription...

Shucks. I was rather hoping for 5. Minutes.

A full HoC confidence vote - with the same people voting the same way, and assuming all non-tory MPs have no confidence, would see Johnson out with fewer than a third of the votes. (I'm counting Sinn Fein as non-tory despite their non-voting.) Would the tory MPs vote as they did yesterday...

True - but a process of open declarations of how they voted, and applied statistics/logic, should produce a list with some certaints and quite a lot of very likelies (whichever way) - with further revision as more information drips out.

Has anyone found a reasonably comprehensive list of how MPs voted? I'm particularly interested in South Wales, and can see reports of Simon Hart (no surprise - has confidence) but few others.

He'd opt to stay had it been 180/179. (Despite the ludicrousness of him being able to vote for himself.)

Boris Johnson wins confidence vote by 211 votes to 148 Sir Graham Brady, chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee, says 359 votes were cast. There were no spoilt ballots. Confidence in Boris Johnson: 211 No confidence in Johnson: 148 That means more than 40% of Tory MPs voted against Johnson.

Am happy to eat eels - but stewed, please, rather than jellied. (So long as someone else has got rid of the bone/cartilage.) Prefer cornichons to gherkins - mainly for texture.

I still find sports a difficult question. Part of me wants to have no gender distinctions at all - as in equestrian events. Even if that means some events are dominated by M or F. Does it matter that heavyweight weightlifters seem always to be male? Or lithe gymnastics seem always to be female?

For centuries, such people have had some very tough lives to live. There are some amazing stories. I went to a boarding school and I can't imagine how tough it would have been. Even just being behind the curve in getting pubic hair, needing to shave and having something bigger than a...

But it is the subject who is free to decide (it seems), and as far as I know, some who are intact do actually choose "her". We are apparently expected to follow that choice.

(the one still having her organ intact) ?

I really, really don't know. The approaching Wakefield and wherewasitinthesouthwest elections will clearly be a factor in many minds. As was said about Cummings, when the person becomes the story, it is all over. Though might take a while for it to happen. Can you imagine a year (or more)...

Beyond a rumour: I long ago reached the opinion that while there might not be an obvious successor (though there are quite a number who are obvious non-successors - like Nadine Dorries), there are quite a number who might do a better job. Indeed, it has clearly reached the "anyone but...