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First , Tilson you have my sympathy. My mother passed away some six months ago and our family experience was much more humane than which you and your mother were subjected to. The fundamental problem is that an A&E department is an unsuitable place for a person in palliative care. It is much...

Would you not also have experienced those wealthy yacht owners who never bother weighting anchor but spend their time in the clubhouse or the golfers ditto. . Status and parading about are strong social forces.

Virtually anything you can do on a home computer you can do with these gadgets with the screen resolutions on current top of range models one can actually read newspapers without squinting view video and tv and then spend the rest of the time bad mouthing your travelling companions to you fellow...

Ok OT I take your correcting . I was extrapolating from my own experience of parliamentary democracy , one which does not make allowance for a ruling class based on accident of birth.

I'm not going to break my policy of not commenting in internal British politics . Just however a correction. Mr Hammond is not a public sector worker. He is a ruler of the British people , selected by your parliament as representing the people and entrusted by them for a fixed period of...

It is those "future claimants. " who will be paying your pension... It is utterly incorrect to assume that your savings pay for your pension, it is the work done by the future working class which does so. Your savings ...and mine are merely promises or IOU s and a hope that a future generation...

To be of any meaningfull length, the volume of people I am describing would have to have been in a queue 100 to 200 wide... . Think crowds in vatican square , think crowds rotating around the mosque in Mecca on haj , and I was told it was a daily occurrence. And these were with sick babies...

I was in hcm city in 2012, and the ratio of cars to bikes was very low... The bike population simply mind boggling. I cannot accept that the health service for the ordinary viet was other than chaotic.. on different days I was adjacent to two of the major maternity hospitals with , clinics and...

I dont want to get into the political party debate, as to whether a left wing or right leaning government is better for the uk, but I do want to agree with the main point of this posting that western europe is the best place , with the best prospects for a safe and healthy life on the planet...

I recently read a novel in which this was the central theme... in this book an nuclear explosion apparently occurred in one of the central desert states .. Nevada or Dakota making it apparently uninhabitable and an exclusion zone declared. Meanwhile and over the suceeding 10 years the...

Unfortunately for them they don't have as many powerfull friends.

When people get richer they want to improve their environment. What they term as their environment depends on their global reach. Welfare of others is not necessarily linked . If newspaper are to be believed ,the upcomming event in Windsor will result in a cleaning up of the environment...

Is the problem not even more acute than that... My understanding is that the Conservative party has been in power since 2007 or 10 years. And cumulative inflation has been about 25% over that time.. based on CPI figures. In addition medical treatment particularly hi tech pharma products have...

Good someone else from Ireland... Nice country down there for cycling and a long tradition.

Oh, and I have very shortlegs. I doubt that, do they not reach the ground when you stand?

Well i am happy to note that your second point is in total concurrence with my principle from psychology 101. What is a monopoly but an attempt to restrict the freedom of others. In regard to your third point , if you divide the the totals by the populations of each country, you get a more...

Where to start?. Your arguement that people want freedom is a good place. You are correct, in group psychology 101, the guiding principle is that every group seeks to maximise its freedom to operate by RESTRICTING the freedom to operate by all other groups. Its true in the family, the workplace...

The 60 mile range seems fanciful, even if one was parachuted to the top of the rockies. The 20 mile per hour would make it illegal in europe.

Let me see, i was doing a commute on an raliegh Carlton 12 mile round trip, cross city, six years ,or so , many decades ago. no derrailliers repairs. I was doing a 6 mile round trip commute on ebike for 5 years ,starting in 2007 replaced the chain, the chainring and the changer( my bad I had...

Which part of hub gears were there first and then replaced by the lighter , more efficient , wider range derrailler did you fail to understand first time around?. Modern indexed derrailliers are trouble free, and unless you displace them by crashing etc don't need adjusting, i have done 1000...