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My 2011 Peugeot is fitted with a speed limiter and automatic speed control .. toggling between them , one effective below 50km.hr the other above 50,0min. .

And within motor vehicles there is a pecking order .. when I had an Audi A6 , mere BMWs would move aside!!!. The Opels ( Vauxhall s to you) would genuflect. Perhaps going down motorways the wrong way made the difference?.

Well my local GP webmailed me, setting it up for 1st Oct, and my wife is getting hers a week later ..again an email, by the Chemist.

.. no wonder you are grouchy in the morning. The Nespresso machine is the exact opposite of pretentious.. they just work. Now the Nespresso shops ,where you get the capsules , are temples to Coffee and Pretentiousness.. Worth going in just to see what I mean

The other alternative is to have large multseat constituencies and single transferrable vote. . That would force the successful candidates to work together in coalitions. It would also ensure that the full mixture in Parliament represented more closely the will of the people ,with none of the...

Two points .. First delighted to welcome a new face or logo into this space... . Although I kind of suspect its old wine in new bottles. The second point is the suggestion that children hardly affected is wholly unproven , and is at best a forlorn hope. We have no possible idea what will happen...

This is really storm in a teacup area. And is contrary to facts on the ground. NI has not had the petrol distruptions, nor the reported food shortages, because it does get access to EU stuff And of course NI is a nett producer of food, . Moreover Ireland is in the top 3 pharmaceutical...

This reminds me of two events in my life.. 1. As a post graduate , I had a very sensitive electronics array set up under the Transmitter mast on Kippure Mountain (260 metre) , the 250 KW TV for Leinster , with the permission of their Engineering Staff. This was directly below the mast.. and...

..hope Oppenheimer visited before 1967 , he would have smelt a bit off in 1970.

You are absolutely correct that EU member states can or could ( it is now more nuanced) veto actions. That is because the EU is NOT A SUPER STATE. Sovereignty remains with the individual members . Decision s to move forward are at the pace determined by the most reluctant member, not the most...

You are correct that the EU did not stop a war OUTSIDE of its borders. Certainly some within the EU wanted to have that capacity. But what you fail to appreciate is that the EU and the UNO were the people who then enforced the peace afterwards. How do I know ..an neighbour was one of the Gardai...

I accept we do need methods of protection and enforcement and I submit that the UNO should be that power. Now it does need restructuring ... The Asian side of the world needs to be in the security council.

There is disinguity, and that opening paragraph wins a prize. . The Council of Rome set up the Coal and Steel agreements,1956 which in turn , and yes the avowed aim of the Rome Treaty was no more European War , set up the EEC,. Multiple treaties later , and expansion from 6 to 28 we get the...

". Peace has been kept because it would cost the aggressor more than he seeks to gain. That's why we have kept peace in Europe, not because EU through some magical ability has managed to change human nature." Again something we can agree on. Now what would have been the gains for a USSR in...

Zlatan... There are two types of threat... For 2000 years or more it has been intra European faction fighting. The last big one ending in 1945. There has been no Wars between EEC ir EU members since. . That is an accomplishment and fleccs comments. There are other threats .. external actors ...

I have never been one of those "England stood alone against Nazi tyranny " myth believers .. well maybe I was as a 11 year old reading Commando comics in 1962. The UK controlled the worlds largest and strongest empire in 1937 onwards .With Canada as a Breadbasket and Ireland as a Dairy ...

... Then they would have loved us!. . But you know this is just nonsense. The Icelanders are really only transferred Irish people who got it together with Norwegians. The Black haired beauties of Galway are the decendants of the few Armada sailors who survived the sea and the savages in...

No I don't actually think so. The power of the EU has been that it is not a military power broker. It is an economic and cultural entity. Nearly everyone of the major EU Nations has a dirty colonial history, sometime back in the last 1000 years , and many a lot a lot more recent than that. By...

As I have said I am assuming nothing other than in the public domain. The French have at least 7 nuclear powered hunterkiller types ,including this latest Barracuda class, which went into service a year ago. I did not bother to check on other models. In addition they have 4 of the boomer...