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There is a good poem on that theme by WB Yeats.. "an Irish Airman foresees his death ".

Fair comment,..even if there is an error in your vacuum water comment. I would have called them axioms, but that is just semantics. We observe only an tiny tiny fraction of the universe, and we have the arrogance to believe that it is universal.. The incredible thing is we have not as yet...

No Zathlan. The truth of Relativity is that the speed of light is an absolute., all the other effects follow from that. The truth was that Einstein was already well regarded for the explanation of the Photoelectric effect and his paper on Brownian motion . But science demands experimental...

An excellent post James,and unfortunately containing a lot of truth. Feelings and this entire "post truth " miasma has been allowed to swamp hard nosed thinking. It is dishonesty and an personal indulgence of a particularly pernicious sort. People talking about "MY TRUTH",as if truth were...

Not a penny came from the North ..how could it ?. you are being massively subvented from the mainland exchequer. As I mentioned on a few occassions , that was a commercial loan and is being paid back with INTEREST. I will happily acknowledge that Mr Cameron was very quick in offering assistance.

Why would Google wish to be located in an economic backwater?. Their primary reason for their Irish location is EU access. Low corporation tax is nice, but you need to have profits before you can be taxed!.

Compare economic activity in RoI and NI in order to get the true picture. According to David McWilliams, the economic activity south of the Border is 30 times that of the North. , so we must have been something correct.For those mathematically challenged, that is a performance 10 times better...

A long time ago, I calculated that the three parts of ebike cost about the same. The bike proper, the battery and the motor. Therefore a 2k ebike is actually a 750 quid machine. Once one goes above that price on a bike, it is starting to become exotic. carbon fibre or Titanium . really low...

Not a word of a lie in either statement, the UK still is in a position to dictate the terms of anything they want, but of course, the 27 can equally refuse listen and or to obey. King Canute could dictate the terms for the tides, ,but some how they failed to heed his message.

Which part of the above is surprising?. That the mere removal of a few words from a passport is earth shaking?. Or that there would be solidarity within the EU when one member is likely to suffer financially from an action by a third party?. Ireland needed the backstop to apply to the island...

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It would not be a huge mental step to suppose that putting barriers to a trade market will somehow reduce that trade. His point was the obvious that a 1% reduction in EU trade is more significant than a 5% increase in say US trade. But as you have already said Brexit had nothing to do witn...

Sorry Zathlan, that does not wash. It is a matter of mathematical logic. If N schools score a range of values m1 to mn. The sum of their performances is sigma m and the average is ( sigma m)/N. .. no ifs no buts. Were the comment that we wish to increase the performance in subject x, so that...

It is off topic, but perhaps a welcome relief. For my part, I am on my second ebike,the first served for the last 6 years of my employment,and the second is my leisure machine post retirement. So that makes me some kind of a fanboy. Why did i buy the second?. Because I could, and while i could...

I hope and expect you are correct. But kicking the can down the roaad, without a resolution will just continue to drive a malaise in the UK. Neither in nor out, paying money into EU for continued access, without any say in decision making. The staus of a proud country woukd be reduced in...

Transition period is currently zero seconds post 29th March.,That is unless a deal is struck. The reason that the UK is currently suffering from reduced immigration of skilled EU personnel is that these people have feelings too,and did not appreciate the barrage of insults over the past 3...

I dont think your analysis holds up to scrutiny.. if one was trying out say a bus route between two villages you might might expect you might expect the company to have run bus services between other villages ,or perhaps a taxi service between the villages in question. You would then do a due...

Very simply that is the role that an opposition is supposed to query. Public tendering for public contracts is a normal part of government business. In fact it is an EU regulation ,that contracts need to be published in the EU Gazzette.. actual name escapes me at present. It would only be in...

"world is a much safer place today than it was two years ago." . That is both an unproven and dare i suggest unprovable assertion. 1. China is growing as a military power and is making strong moves around SE Asia. 2. North Korea has not disarmed, and is probably feeling that they were being...