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Had my first Covid-19 vaccine jab this morning at 9.20am at the regional Health Centre, all very efficiently organised with controlling ushering through the stages and good separation throughout. Stage one was a controlled admission reception cabin with well spaced seats for the initial...

The day they married, that was the origin of the mess. de Gaulle was right, Britain should never have been allowed to join the EU to be so destructive. .

A government just cannot order someone to lose their own money by deciding for them when to withdraw. They wouldn't be the government for very long. I still think it would disable the market by causing a large loss of funds. The short term market would end up in currency trading where the...

The idea is good, but I don't think it would work in practice. It would be telling investors at times that they'd have to hold onto shares by law as they tumbled while a company failed. The market would probably become short of funds as investors turned to the more volatile currency market and...

It's been a disgruntled area since 1984 and a Thatcher shutdown.. For 414 years Chatham Royal Dockyard provided over 500 ships for the Royal Navy, and was at the forefront of shipbuilding, industrial and architectural technology. At its height, it employed over 10,000 skilled artisans and...

But you'll know from your time there how highly organised the Swiss are with everything, particularly with their trains being on time. They'll have scheduled both the fire and the attending fire train accordingly. .

Grrrrr ! How many times? Fire trains are not for fighting those fires, they are for fires on the railways. Just like airport fire engines are for plane fires, not local buildings. .

Indeed, like the "single point of failure" exponent who has gone quiet lately. Clearly hate speech against crank drives and Bosch in particular ! .

Agree, but most of the network still has no road access close enough to deal with emergencies. That's even true here in London where lines are trapped between numerous buildings, in cuttings and even in inaccessible London country spots. I still remember the Clapham rail disaster where pupils...

Probably a case of having to have something when there is no road access, as is often the case with railway lines in remote areas or in tunnels. .

Translation from the Welsh? ;) It was in Wales. .

Very true, but adding it to all existing tunnels could be prohibitive for such rare events. .

Fire trains are for fires on the railway, not for areas of habitation ! And fires on trains are not unusual. .

I don't think either will happen, this is just a political spat that won't be allowed to get too serious. Hence Boris playing it down. .

This is Switzerland, the system would freeze up in Winter, and the installation cost would be astronomic anyway. The fire train to deal with the odd rare incident is much cheaper. The channel tunnel has no sprinkler system, even there they use fire fighting vehicles in the service tunnel for...

Two things: They're big and it's how big behaves with smaller. It's never fair. This vaccine spat between the EU and the UK is just a continuation of the Brexit refusals of both sides to give concessions. Both sides are as bad and this is going to continue for many years on all sorts of...

Trains do catch fire, at least our UK ones do from time to time and the lines are often very far from road access. YouTube Information Link .

Indeed, a good illustration of how little open easily accessible space they have was when they bought some Centurian tanks from us for their army. Because they couldn't find a big enough open area to use them they reached an agreement with France to transport them there for exercises. .

That's not so bad, here we have a floating Fire Engine on the Thames, presumably in case the river catches fire. .

Suspicious package? Maybe a horses head from the EU, given how they feel about AZ at the moment. .