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It's all relative. Of course virtually none in this country are starving, but what Rashford and co. are speaking of is children suddenly transitioned from a regular daily lunch to nowt. Some of them do have parents who genuinely cannot give them money to buy food, those people affected by...

Indeed. I still find it odd that it's now Germanically named Derby Cycles gmbh rather than Ltd or plc. .

I am arguing that formal education should not begin before 6 years old but of course I'm not against other means of young socialisation. However, we even get that wrong, but that is another subject. In turn I'm not sure what your intention was in your post in response to my mention of Norway...

Exactly, it's not school, it's play centred. It has much in common with the other early years systems I mentioned that we were once very critical of. .

I don't disagree, but I'm speaking of formal education, and that certainly doesn't apply to the sort of painting by the earlier years in our primaries Then you aren't looking the outcomes and year by year age comparisons with countries who start their pupils much later, such as Norway...

Indeed, and why I proposed a huge expansion of customs to allow sampling and very heavy fines for companies found cheating. .

No, we aren't in that league, with us failure is effortless. Trump and Bolsonaro have attracted widespread censure, but we've largely got away with it without much comment. .

I see Danidl posted a disagree to this post of mine. Perhaps he'd like to explain why the countries who are among the highest ranking in educational success so often start their children's schooling at 6 or 7 years old, And why we, who start schooling at the idiotic age of 4 or even earlier...

The time to really start worrying about Covid-19 is when they stop publishing the number dying, changing to the number remaining alive. .

I don't care how it's done, so long as it is done. .

I wasn't proposing that, as I posted I saw the income from the tax paying all the customs costs. .

I agree that the 4 to 6 years olds should never have been sent back to school since they cannot be trusted with separation, nor do they get much value from school at those ages, mainly play and slapping paint around. .

Perfectly true, but the principal remains that paying tax on most of what we buy is an essential part of our UK economy. Amazon and the like are unbalancing our economy, usurping UK government rights. Wherever we buy, we should be paying the exchequer the due 20%. .

Don't be so sure. We've been gradually winning increased tax compliance from US corporations, Airbnb being the latest to agree to be liable for much more tax and also revealng past records to allow past lettings to be taxed as well. We certainly won't get what is really due from such as...

But this is outer South London and suburbia, a land of commuters and through commuting traffic, not students and raves. The 99% was accurate, i was tempted to post well over 99%. Drivers don't willingly join the London rush hours if they don't have to. In your last paragraph we are in...

Fully agreed and it could easily stand 25% or 33% purchase tax. That would also solve our current unemployment problems since the revenue could pay for a huge increase in customs, checking and charging on everything coming in. .

What was the point of you posting this needless lecture? I clearly showed that over 99% of the problem was the unavoidable essential travel of working people. And I can show that my voluntary trip over that line over the map wasn't part of the problem but a solution, but what is the point when...

Tiers are proving useless already here in London. I left my tier 2 home in the early evening to do my shop at the usual supermarket over the border in tier1, illegal of course, Irresponsible? Actually no, read on. Reaching the road to that destination I joined the continuous stream of cars...

David Henshaw, editor of A to B magazine did this with a Lafree and published the article in one edition of his magazine long ago. .

Another member did similar with three failed Giant Lafree's back in 2014. He ended up with two fully working and the rest of the bits built back into one which was donated to a bicycle museum. .