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Yes, I know it’s not doing so well against the euro. But, a lot of the price rises were blamed on the dollar / pound exchange rate because a high proportion of manufacturing takes place in China and they get paid in Dollars. I’m just quoting what was said at the time, but there may not have been...

This isn't surprising since there is a general shift towards on-line shopping, which is backed up by demand for warehousing. The high street has been in decline long before Brexit was even thought of. Meanwhile, the pound continues to strengthen meaning that KTM customers will soon see prices...

And they probably changed the door code immediately upon your departure. :-)

Well I don’t know. Leading scaremonger, David Cameron appears to be coming around to the idea of Brexit.

To quote a well used phrase, “Exactly what it says on the tin.”

Exactly. Very much like the Brexit debate on here and elsewhere.

I saw this interview the other day and it reminds me a lot of the emotions involved in the Brexit debate. I think both the interviewer (Cathy Newman) and the interviewee (Jordan Peterson) come over well and both handle the questions and responses responsibly. I enjoyed watching the interview and...

Getting carried away, exactly. As a schoolboy, I remember reading about and looking at artistic drawing of predicted life in the year 2000. Mono-rail trains winding through our cities, flying cars as the mass mode of travel, hover scooters for local trips, robots delivering goods to our front...

This is just a wild guess. Could it be that anything reported which has a left wing slant to it is the gospel truth and anything which has a centre to right tinge is nothing but filthy lies?

OK, I am prepared to be convinced and am receptive to new information. I know for a fact that hydrogen in a concentration of 4% by volume in air is explosive, not just flammable, but explosive. In an environment richer in oxygen, which is highly likely in the event of an on-board leak, that...

Hang on a minute, I’m confused. I thought the Mail was a lying, right wing, Tory scumbag propaganda machine?

A cocktail of hydrogen and oxygen on a commercial airliner is never going to be acceptable. You talk about a steady leak of hydrogen not being a bomb, just a tiny leak is a potential bomb, as I said earlier just four percent by volume in air is explosive, far far less than 4% in an oxygen rich...

I know about the motors, that bit is dead easy by comparison to the supply of energy. In the cruise, a typical twin turbofan engine airliner will burn about 5 tonnes of JET A1 / hour which by my rough calculation is about 60 Mega Watts. I'm going to guess at a thermal efficiency of a turbofan...

The USA definitely had, or still have if not destroyed as part of a disarmament programme, rucksack sized 20 000 tonne yield devices, weighing in at a little over 20 Kg. Highly portable. They were known as Davey Crocketts and were intended to be used in mainland Europe to destroy infrastructure...

This is the problem. The nuclear stalemate which existed for many years is being further eroded as each new country comes on-line with nuclear weapons. Miniaturisation is now a big threat. The ability to produce a 20 000 tonne device which can be carried in a rucksack has existed for many years...

When you look at how long it has taken to progress from a lead-acid cell to where we are today, I would say that 200 years is optimistic!

This is where nuclear weapons assist in keeping the peace. Had Hittler's Germany faced the threat of nuclear attack in response to their decision to invade another country, maybe it wouldn't have happened. To be given the choice of either reversing your unprovoked aggressive action or face...

Won't happen & can't happen. I can't see how it is possible to carry the amount of energy required to sustain electrically powered flight on the scale of commercial air transport. The energy storage would be too heavy, too dangerous and provide inadequate range.

I bet VW, Audi, BMW etc are $hitting themselves.

The US economy and growth in employment both seem to be fine. OK, he mixed his words up in the abortion statement, big deal. No one in the history of mankind has ever made a verbal mistake before?