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There are magic beams in (some) LED headlamps - cleverly directed beams from a matrix of emitters. :):) Have no idea what actually happens inside my headlamps but they do some fancy self-adjustments and work pretty well. No idea, though, how much they affect oncoming drivers. When I bought a...

And JRM no confidence letter...

Has she grown a moustache?

Raab gone

Let imagine that the original decision to join the EU (EEC) had not passed and we had spent all those years since as an independent UK off the coast of Europe (apologies Ireland - not meant to ignore you). We would have ended up following many technical standards and making many deals to manage...

4) Withdraw A50 and do our very best to pretend it never happened? Also, are you really saying that over 50% would vote for 1) ?

Tusk confirms November summit European Commission president Donald Tusk confirmed that EU summit will be held on 25 November to discuss the deal. Speaking in Brussels he said: “We have always said Brexit is a lose-lose situation and these negotiations were always about damage control.”

Not if the polls saying there is now a remain majority are true.

I agree that she does not expect this to pass as is. But whether she gets the chance to do anything else at all, other than gardening, is a question that needs answering.

Guardian reports: Keir Starmer calls the agreement a 'miserable failure of negotiation' Keir Starmer, shadow Brexit story is speaking to BBC 5Live now and he’s coming out all guns blazing. “We’ve read and analysed all 585 pages, it’s a miserable failure of negotiation.” He says there...

Obviously we need a referendum on that.

I had before I posted the link. :) You don't just need to be speed reader, you also need an encyclopaedic understanding of EU agreements, documents, laws, ...

It has been published: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/draft_withdrawal_agreement_0.pdf Note that is an EU website. Where's the UK version? ;):D

And Trump somehow forgot the impact of the Soviet Union on WWII. Obviously we do not know what would have happened without direct USA involvement, but I would not be at all surprised if instead of stopping, more or less, at Berlin, they might have carried on to Paris. Trump taunts Macron over...

Who were the noisy ones off-camera? I couldn't make out from the snippet fed through the Guardian.

of the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dogs?

From the beginning of Cameron saying he would allow a referendum, I have been aware of many of the issues that would arise. Sure, I am not saying that I knew everything, nor the detail of anything. But I did know it was one mega-deal and he was a total idiot allowing it to happen. What an...

I was under the impression that it was in abeyance in Germany - hence my use of the qualifier "active". Regardless, it is a minority and I cannot see the entire EU implementing conscription.

Which EU countries have active conscription?

Surely you are right that it won't happen. But I really do wonder what would happen.