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Really? Clearly you haven't listened to the radio program I heard that was questioning why the increases in life expectancy have been stalling since around the millenium. That's almost two decades of denting before Covid arrived. .

I'm not making any judgement on Covid itself, I just prefer the truth to distortion. What good does exaggeration do, none that I can see. That Covid-19 has killed nearly 72,000 over the norm for 2020 deaths is serious enough, why publish nearly double that number and then retract with the...

I have every idea of how serious the situation is, much less than imagined. As you know I've maintained all along that Covid is being greatly exaggerated, here's how much: In the three years prior to 2020 the average total of all UK deaths was 535,000 per annum In 2020 that rose sharply to...

And I don't understand your reply. Are you saying that now there is only the Delta variant and no other Covid-19 variety in existence? If there are other varieties that can be caught, and there are, my comment makes perfect sense, the spread of the more infectious Delta accounting for an...

The highlighted are both assumptions, best be patient. With the more infectious Delta variant spreading at the same time, it's impossible for us to accurately judge the precise cause of any increase. .

There's not much that can be done without taking up lots more space and inordinate cost increases, lithium battery fires resist suppression. The real answer we already know, better cell reliability and consistency so the fire doesn't start in the first instance. The industry learnt that the...

Nice one, neatly rebuffing all those in here having a pop at the EU and France in particular about their vaccination rates. They were always going to overtake us, we were only ahead initially because we cheated, jabbing people before the vaccines had been approved. .

Indeed, Danidl commented only a day ago on them having overtaken us. But of course, with only 4.9 million population their need to vaccinate is greater if they aren't going to disappear. With 67 millions and lots of rubber boatloads arriving daily we don't have that problem. .

Great. Then they might learn how they should be taken. .

I still think my three shift system best, we could even have three football World Cups, three chances for a country to win one of them. After all, for many years we had three boxing world championships and three heavyweight champions and few complained about that. .

Fat lot of use to most people who work for a living. My shift system would be best. Just have three Olympic schedules lasting three weeks, four days longer than at present. Each schedule over the three weeks being to suit one of the three 8 hours in 24 hours. Each event would appear in...

Or do the events as three shifts, scattered across the days with times to suit all areas. Then everyone would have three chances of winning Gold etc, making new honours like winning a triple gold. Honestly, these organisers just don't think. .

She obviously doesn't know what she's talking about with range and charging facilities, though that is common to much of the population on the subject of e-cars. .

The £300 billions spent so wastefully on Covid could have been spent earlier to build a million £300k houses to deal with our severe housing shortage. That would have done more for public health than anything Matt Hancock ever did. .

Probably too late to save it from oblivion. I can't imagine all those who uninstalled it will reload it, and many don't want to be notified anyway. .

But some of its members do, Macron a classic example. While several member countries don't want us back there's no chance of re-entry. Precisely, I cannot see anyone believing this possible within a decade at least. Having spent 44 years trying to renegotiate our membership, we are now...

There'd be no point. After the events of the last five years there is no way the EU and its members would accept us back at present. They were sick of us and our constant whingeing even before we voted to leave, as they made clear to John Major. Memories of that five years will have to fade...

Good point. Many years ago an Oriental company tried selling TVs here with the brand name Lucky Goldstar. They didn't sell so they tried just Goldstar, but that didn't work. So they tried again with just the initials of their first name tried: LG and they've never looked back since...

Virtually any e-bike will do the job, I think we in Britain are sometimes too restrictive in our attitudes to what bikes can do, certainly our authorities are. The Dutch who are infinitely more cycling experienced than us think nothing of carrying youngsters of any age and even adults on...

In fairness to the public both in the USA and here, I don't think it is truly a "couldn't give damn attitude" since that would be a positive reaction. I think it's more a despairing resignation that things never improve and often get worse, no matter who is in charge and what their policy is...