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Regarding hub and dereilluir gears, there is little to choose. Hubs are a little less efficient, but hey there is an electric motor. The bosch is clever enough to reduce power when gear changing so there is no grinding with the dereilliers . I have the dereilliur but in truth i soend most of my...

I have the Motus for about 2 years now. It is a fine sturdy bike, sort of old fashioned in the Dutch manner, but very comfortable ,and the upright stance Safe. I have done 2500 km on it, as I am now retired and go out at leisure... . The only deterioration in that time has been one rusty screw...

Yeah, they are part of the UK... And remember you can always go accross to NI

I remember a newspaper cartoon from my youth, possibly a Mutt and Jeff one. It has jeff sitting by the riverbank fishing and an irate Yank going by. Conversation goes . What are you doing Fishing Why are you not working Why So you can make lots of money Why So you can retire early Why So you...

I agree with the first part of Mr Fox's assertion, not the second. I suspect that for once Mr farage has got it right... However the EU will not be the prime mover, it will or would seek to facilitate the UK if anyone in a position of authority was prepared to cry wolf, and stop being a lemming...

.. the interesting aside is that both Arabs and Ethnic Jews are both Semitic people's!!.

Celine is actually Canadian... . Not my cup of tea but Andre Rieu from Holland has a global following. The major opera singers are global superstars . The blue tinted brigade have a lot more money than cash strapped youngsters,and the singers musicians catering to them make a pile...

.. the Germans might disagree with names like. Beethoven, Hydn, that Wagner person on the team, the Italians might like to think Verdi had a little merit, the Austrians have suggested the Mozart bloke as being passable the Poles think that Chopin might do, Sibelius, cracked off a few tunes in...

Without flag waving etc.. the Eurovision song and dance competition is very much a pointer, in the early days the UK and Ireland did very well, but as the axis of Europe has moved east with the reunification of Germany, our successes have dwindled, it is not just down to block voting but...

Excluding the comment about lack of industrial rights and accepting that there are plenty of people prepared to work for lower wages in economies where the costs of buying property is lower, then yes about right. The EU role is facilitating upskilling these workforces by investing in their...

I am somewhat puzzled by your responses to this thread,and it seems to lack your normal rigour and precision. .. The polluted water of the west Wales coast do pose a health hazard. The radio active residue enters the eco system and affects plants, fish and other animals ,in including mankind. ...

I don't know or care about this person, but I would speculate that it is easier to bring a conviction in the case of assult on a policeman. They generally make better witnesses, and are unlikely to withdraw the complaint, as often happens in domestic violence cases.

.. you are simply confusing cause and effect. The EU never directed any of those companies to up sticks and go to other places in Europe. That was the avarice of the stockholders and their boards of directors. What the EU did and do is make it more attractive for those companies,so inclined, to...

..no gain, all pain , The old Acorn Archimedes had a game called lemmings, where a legion of blue clad pixels plunged to their doom, and ones task to to delay the inevitable.. ..I hadn't realised it was prophecy.

.. well I would not have known about where he was born, but the dates he lived in Salthill Galway are consistent with our family history.

My understanding is that he, Lord HaHaw was in fact an Irish citizen.. his family, and the surname Joyce was correct, and he himself lived a few doors down from where my mother lived in Galway city. So executing him was an act of vengeance as he was not a traitor,although being born before...

This yet again old ground which has previously been ploughed. There is an opinion circulating around Whitehall, that article 50 was an invitation to treat not a decision. . But that is what it is , an opinion, and I suspect a forlorn hope. Should the UK wish to either seek additional time or...

.. reversing BREXIt is not within the power of the UK ,and even less so after the locks are changed.

.. would that branch not have died off after a single generation? .. just asking!.

Our histories are very different... Wales was conquered from around 1200, .. indeed that was why southern Ireland was invaded from Pembroke, , Scotland was finally conquered around 1700, with their act of union and Ireland was finally conquered in 1800 with our act of union. .. but things had...