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Its a good question to which I don't have an answer. A colleague of mine was teaching in the middle East some 25 years ago and came back telling us that unless you gave good marks , the students would have you fired. Much later say 5 years ago in talks with a middle Eastern countries education...

Does your first sentence not actually make my point? American companies , at least of those I know, generally sweat their assets until they fall apart. They generally have a three month time frame for investment ROI. Why did that American firm close? Uncompetitive? As an example of sweating...

Having worked in engineering education for 35 years, I have sympathy for your view. Playing is a very good way of learning, but at some stage the individual needs to step away and put in the " hard yards " at it were of actually internalising the knowledge by hard study. Learning by rote and...

Here we are back to the old game of beatification of some politicians and the vilification of others. It might be better to remember that the past is history, and can only be revisited in memory. The present is now and the future has yet to be written. For those who believe that the first post...

Some people spend more on a conventional bike let alone an ebike

There is a lot to be said for tiny cars, not only in big urban areas where parking is a problem. there are still plenty of small villages throughout Europe, usually highly picturesque, untouched by wars over a thousand years, where even small cars like a twingo or VW up! have difficulty. All...

Would it not also need type approval, CE marking etc and of course tax and insurance, before being eligible for use on public roads.... This is a real question, not a put down?

The trick is to have pride in where one comes from, be able to honestly recognise it's faults while respecting that others, who are less fortunate , by coming from elsewhere are are worthy , and may feel equally proud of their god forsaken patch....

Interesting. Maybe the push for public transport is misplaced and people want their own individual private space however small. We or at least I see these as ugly, but fashions change

I fully accept your assurances that you have not disregarded as inconsequential the views of 48% of the UK voters. And my last comment was tongue in cheek at bit. However the fundamental truth behind it of the UK turning it's back on the biggest market, and social experiment of treating 500...

Peter regrettably your first sentence is untrue. By their statements and actions and tweets and postings, a significant number of the leavers indicated and still indicate that the" remoaners ' their words , are of no consequence. Acknowledging that it is a mess and then wishing to continue...

Don't wish for war. It might come in any event. Referring to that larger posting I think that the author is being optimistic. After irish independence, the new republic engaged in an economic war with England. " Burn every thing English except their coal" was the mantra. Economic...

.." who is this we kimo sabe " as Tonto might have said. As the Indians came over the hill and the lone ranger had uttered " oh we are in a spot of bother here" or words to that effect. Had those Britons who were most intimately involved ... those living in other European countries been...

Wait till you get to 1172 then you on in for 800 posts of misery

The uk can walk away in which case wto rules apply.

Irish lamb is very sweet, and not frozen, but expensive compared to NZ stuff. A question.. does the UK import this NZ lamb, as a member of the EU or on the basis of some other arrangement? If the former then does not that quota remain with the EU?

On the face of it, I can agree with that. If you pay you should be allowed play. There is a glitch, I think that a lot of EU programmes, specify that they would occur within EU member states and be subject to ecj arbitration. If the UK modified their request so as to leave at the end of the...

Perhaps the EU can then accept it's full quota, of lamb, and sell on a small bit to the UK, at a profit of course?

The difference is that when changing house you will have agreed in writing to the amounts to be repaid on the mortgage from property 1etc and the monies owed on this will be held in trust by a solicitor as a third party and when you get the second mortgage, all the monies owed, as well as the...

Yes and there many many more, and not just money. The EU wishes to retain the UK as a full member of the EU 28, and thinks the UK is bonkers for choosing to leave on such flimsy grounds. The gapping hole in the security of Europe .. and of the UK also is an equally valid reason. Reverting to...