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All cycle trailer hitch arrangements are horrible so I decided from the outset to have central rear hitching, car style. My large trailer is based on an expanded version of the Homecom chassis, like Guerney's, but its whole towbar and hitch was scrapped on receipt. My hitches are miniaturised...

The Greta and Shell ones were tiny, like 211 x 110 pixels, but Balkan News one ok full size on PC. As for the underground fires, too expensive to put out, many in the USA, India and Australia alone, and a fair bet more in the other coal rich countries like South America, China and the former...

That doesn't surprise me, as someone consistently used to getting his own way throughout life, successful in his own mind at least, he will be psychologically ill equipped for all the rebuffals and criticism he's suffered recently. So his reaction could become more hysterically desperate. And...

Over half a million workers on strike today. It's bad enough having doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, fire brigades, railways, teachers on strike, but now the British Museum staff have joined them on strike. If archaeologists and sociologists also strike now I don't know how we will all cope. .

Indeed, it also worries me that all three mentioned were female. We had this problem on London for many years when around half or more of the victims were women but they only formed well under a quarter of the cyclists. Ironically the problem was that women were far more law abiding than men...

Thats good, as I mentioned it's sometimes necessary to be a little brutal to open these cases. .

You are too impulsive, buying first, then asking later. :) First the e-rider, now the Soodoo! Well I hope you have much better luck this time, it certainly looks a better bet than the e-rider .

Although I strongly disagree with you about the continuing value of the BBC, I very much agree that it was a far better, stronger and more valuable organisation in the 1970s. It was Margaret Thatcher who damaged it so badly with her appointment of Marmaduke Hussey as Chairman, his job being to...

The clips cannot be seen on the closed case, they slide inside the other half and latch inside the case sides. I can't say the Milan LPX case has them but some of Powacycles other models cases did. .

It is clips on some of these batteries. They take the form of two small, thin rectangular extensions of each case side with a central hole. These slide inside the other case half sides and latch onto small matching projections there. You need to be s little brutal in using a thin blade such a a...

Agreed. Funding national TV is a mess almost everywhere in Europe. I understand that the French fee based on the national average wage is being scrapped in favour of a slice taken from VAT, but even that will be temporary until a better way is found. It seems nobody has the answer, other...

To answer some of your points: The BBC cannot be competitive and appeal to all sectors of the population as it is supposed to. And of course that does lead to some shows which are dire for many, even most of us. Accordingly it can never adapt to the commercial world while doing these. You...

They are busy all the time since they take part in many engagements other than broadcasts. The £23 millions all the orchestras and choirs cost is peanuts, just 0.46% of their total £5 billions income from the licence fee and other earnings. If it was spent on programs throughout the year the...

Your anti-BBC bias shows in your exaggeration. You seem unaware that an orchestra's musicians are not necessarily permanently employed, often just assembling for engagements and even appearing in different orchestras. I still remember the fuss when a concert hall management found out that...

Any successful answer to limit the population at a defined level will be very unpleasant since it will be one of two possible solutions: Compulsory and unavoidable birth control. Or A defined upper age limit for termination. Unless nature gets better at producing truly effective pandemics. .

I hate to think how much concrete and steel is used to build the vast number of wind turbines to get the output of a major nuclear station. And the complexity of their control mechanisms across the over 11,000 of them will easily exceed those of our 6 nuclear power stations. All our attempts...

They can claim it, but the truth is that we dont have a deal, just a temporary fariff free arrangement as much to suit Germany short term** as anything. This has brought an ongoing permanent decline in trading with the EU and no access to new services exports to the EU. What we should have...

Indeed. With the Tories and Labour both unacceptable, I've decided our only hope is for Nicola Sturgeon to put up SNP candidates in all English and Welsh constituencies. Then with the SNP in power in Westminster and Holyrood, they can give permission for all three of us to leave the UK and...

Hard to say which way Starmer will go. He likes to portray himself as a man of high principles, but I know from his time as DPP that he has none when he sees that is expedient. Then he becomes Labour's version of Boris Johnson, concerned only with his own ambition above all else. .

Two reasons it is ultimately clean: Carbon is the main problem causing global warming and nuclear power isn't a CO2 generator. Most of the nuclear waste from ALL stages (mining to consuming in conventional reactors) is depleted uranium which is also a fuel if used in fast breeder reactors. We...