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Spain completed it's withdrawal of nearly 30,000 troops on 29th October 2015! By public demand when their electorate voted in a PM who promised to withdraw them. .

Understood, I was only thinking in terms of the USA and Britain, the main players. It would have been easy for the other countries to pull out much earlier, given the minor parts they were often playing, sometimes only administrative. .

Possibly necessity that we clear early. The Americans are going to need most or all of the Monday/Tuesday landing slots to clear their large number of troops, particularly since they will be manning the airport departures until the last minute. .

A very silly claim for Boris to make anyway. There was nothing the Foreign Office could have done. The Taliban had total mastery of the situation so were calling all the shots. .

We see it all the time, champions hanging on too long. Lewis should have announced retirement at the 7th Championship. Schumacher made the same mistake by hanging on too long and making a failed comeback as a tailender. Happens in lots of sports and showbiz, previous stars trying to repeat...

Yes, the clinics doing this are a menace. Fortunately the specialists in the major private hospital chains won't have anything to do with these or the cataract replacement focussing lenses that fail too often. .

If you want to be really precise, they are IEC C13 and C14 connectors. C13 goes on a lead carrying the power. C14 is the inlet on an appliance it plugs into. Information Link .

3 pin IEC connectors Sometimes also called 3 pin euro plugs or kettle plugs. Information link .

Indeed. In reality even the 66% claimed by a more cautious maker was optimistic. .

Those were national population figures. Our London and Croydon infection figures were far, far higher. London initially was said to be at 2.5 time the national infection rate and Croydon the highest of all the London boroughs in the first two months. I remember estimates of 25% of Londoners...

I've never disputed that vaccination helps, only insisted the benefits have been repeatedly exaggerated and proven to be. Remember all the claims of circa 95% protection against catching Covid? What nonsense that turned out to be. As I posted long ago to much agreement, they aren't...

Supporting exactly what I said, that previous infections with milder strains gives some protection against the Delta variant as well. Except we must have much more of the latter protection since we are performing better than the rest of the country, not the same, but with far fewer jabs...

You carry on believing your pet experts and their stats. The same experts who so consistently get it wrong, the same experts who later unashamedly revise what they predicted to try to appear right after all. I prefer to believe what is actually happening. As usual with so many in here, you...

Once again the experts are getting this wrong, I'm frankly getting sick of them and their false predictions. I've posted a couple of times a while ago about how little we are suffering here and yesterday's national news brought support for what I've been saying. It was announced that London...

I'm sure we mostly agree Tony, but the way it's being done is very cheap, suiting government. The detection, catching and harshly punishing way is ultimately far more effective but very expensive, since it requires large numbers of ever present police of one kind or another, plus large...

Google translate gave me "Public order office". .

Not a well observed law though. Some of the German Kalkhoff models had their bell integrated in the left hand brake lever. It was tiny and only gave single faint "ting" when its lever was flicked:

That period was BS , Before Sovereignty. Now we are in the ARSE. After Recovery of Sovereignty for England. .

Although there's truth in this, we have evidence going back long before those, as much as 800,000 years ago of living in single family groups when the population was of course far tinier than it is now. There's so many natural advantages in that with the traditional division of labour, and we...

Of course. I was commenting from a sociological point of view, in this country I'm far from alone in avoidance of marriage. Nearly a third of all households are single, the whole lifespan divorce rate is 50% and only that low due to so many simply living together so their numerous separations...