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Yes, you were just the launch pad for the weapon. :( .

I'll be feeling even more smug than usual as I drive to the supermarket tomorrow in my all electric car. I won't use the usual urban route since that passes three filling stations so the roads could be clogged with queues. I'll use the mainly country road alternative and put up with some extra...

I'm not grouchy in the morning, but I would be if I had to mess about with goodness knows what before I could have a coffee. Anyway I have to drink decaffeinated due to avoid heart problems. .

Still have to chase a 'flu jab, there was a time when they chased me to have one. .

Are you saying that at each meal you are a has bean? ;) .

I fear Labour front bencher Andy McDonald resigning with a letter savagely critical of Starmer has rather blown this conference for him. Rachel is a page 2 subject now. .

The genuine article. Unelectable of course, but that's the first past the post western democratic model. If some are going to be unhappy, might as well make it almost everyone. .

I use instant, cant be bothered by all the pretensions surrounding coffee drinking. .

No good for me, I drink coffee. But I can precisely reverse artics and full trailers. .

The Chinese people overall are better off and happier that at any time in their long history, because their government now works so well. And as for "top down", President Xi Jinping as a teenager was living with his poor family in a cave. That demonstrably is a democracy that really works, not...

Democracy works better if there is only one party of the people and those people are voted for to implement its policies. As in China which runs very efficiently. .

Teaching granny to suck eggs. Six years of truck and heavy transport driving in the army and many years of intermittent relief driving my depot trucks to keep my hand in while in civvy street local management. Together with a total of nearly 70 years of driving light vehicles and owning a one...

No problem, their entire fleet hasn't disappeared, only a small proportion is missing. So they can use the majority they still have for that sensitive work. It just needs a little thought and imagination, not a lot of hysteria. .

None at all. These relaxation for emergencies rules have been available since 8th July in both GB and the EU. They state safety still comes first and staff must not drive when tired...

The Royal Logistics Corps have 14,000 personnel, a high proportion of them truck drivers. A small number are currently helping with ambulance driving in Scotland. .

Call the army in, they have thousands of truck drivers. The Navy and RAF have some too .

Agreed that 7.5 or 3 tonne vans won't be ideal, but needs must and the drug companies have quite generous profit margins so could stand a short hit. Of course one reason for a shortage of van drivers too is the supermarkets greatly expanding their van fleets for the big increase in home...

All the pharmaceutical delivery companies I see use one or two tonne vans which don't require HGV drivers. A couple of them actually have distribution centres in my borough. I can only see a problem for major truck loads of drugs leaving manufacturing centres, but they don't deliver to chemist...

And John Major even more, pushing for the inclusion of all the ex Warsaw Pact countries. .

We had similar here with Croydon High School. A proposal to install a mast in the school grounds where the pupils would receive virtually no EMF was furiously opposed by parents. A site was found a short distance away which now gives the whole school area the full dose. And it's for a similar...