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No, I do belong to this group since I stopped employment on passing 50, which I'd planned ever since 16 years old. That is 17 years short of the current retirement age. Of course I haven't just sat in a chair ever since, I've occupied myself with my own interests which are not work, but which...

We are are NOT economically inactive. We worked for all the money we now have to live on, paying taxes at the time and still paying all our taxes now, income, VAT, capital gains and death duties. In a good, well run country concerned for its citizens well being, we should be aiming to have an...

I knew Starmer and Reeves would blow it with an inadequate response, and they have. There's approaching three million of us over 80 and we used to get £300 annually, doubled up to £600 in both 2022 and 2023. Over the last eight years since reaching eighty I've received £3000 in WFA. Then...

History is the evidence, harsh policies implemented always lead to ever harsher enforcement action. And so is Trump's populism and its consequences evidence. Not that any of this matters, if Reform ever do get into power they will no doubt chicken out and fail to deliver their policies. .

You didn't challenge it, ducking out by avoiding the essential part of what I posted, now highlighted in bold below: "Of course it is extreme right proposed by Reform and NR. It's just populist law, which when implemented effectively results in fascist behaviour." None of that draconiian...

Of course it is extreme right proposed by Reform and NR. It's just populist law, which when implemented effectively results in fascist behaviour. That is how meanings change dynamically, you've even done it yourself in your post. You opened by questioning the use of "Far Right", but closed...

Yes it was Simon Reeve's program about Norway, the item specifically their fish farming, with much to be admired in their advances. .

The answer is obvious, we must develop fish farming by dealing with its problems. We used to take all our meat from the wild, many in Africa and the Amazon still do, but that was and remains unsustainable, so we developed animal husbandry to high degrees of sophistication. We need to do the...

Dendrites? :p ;) .

Indeed, the first predictions that peak oil had been past were in 1950. Since then we've discovered the reserves of the North Sea, Alaska, Mexican Gulf, Venezuela, Libya, Nigeria, Angola and many more, without even looking at Russia and its satellites. And of course crude oil and even "town"...

True, I used to know it but that was long time ago. My area of London used to be like it, drivers beeping at cyclists etc., but it's totally changed now and I think you'd be amazed at how pleasant it is now for ALL our road users. Three things over the last ten years have brought about most...

A one off unique occasion so hardly a major inconvenience in all your journeys. I prefer all two wheeler riders to be able to use the safety of that reserved box or even stop ahead of it when there is doubt about being seen from a high cab truck. Most of the powered ones I see doing it in in...

Nor have I and I've never described anything of the sort. My mention, if you reread my posts, is of two wheelers being crushed by left turning trucks, killing the riders when leaving the lights. Many of them, up to ten or more every year, a subject we discussed in depth long ago. I see now...

Now you are making assumptions and just being silly and insulting. My stance is definitely NOT that I'm above the law, no-one is. But when the law theatens life and actually takes lives, as the white line law has on so many occasions, one is entitled to defend oneself on those occasions...

We are entitled to protect ourselves, even against the law when that become necessary. To adopt the stance you seem to be taking that it is always wrong is not only foolish, it has caused far too many deaths already. .

That is both a very selfish attitude and showing ignorance of best safety practice. Motor cyclists are far more vulnerable than cyclists, their 1% of the traffic resulting in 19% of the deaths, so as far as I am concerned they are welcome in the reserved boxes or anywhere else for safety, such...

No, what I am saying is that this law is impractical and should never have been made. Where I live in London cyclists rarely get anything like 1.5 metres, even a full metre is rare, but that doesn't worry them, as the tiny gaps they routinely go through shows. They commonly ride in bike lanes...

South Korea also erects nuclear power stations quickly and safely, the record being in two years and four years being routine. We desperately need both those and the lightning fast house production, but we won't do either. Simply because we are what we are, failures by any current measure...

The fundamental flaw with the whole e-assisted bicycle concept. Yes, 8 gears is enough for the motor to assist, in fact far too many to cover the 5 to 15.5 mph range given the torque and power flexibility of e-drive. Just 3 would be plenty for the motor over that limited speed range. But 8...

I think Guerney will like these: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4kq1k7150o .