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... Woosh, we have been over this before, Brexit is not a rehearsal, it's the big deal. Now article 50 has been triggered and negotiations have commenced, it will continue remorselessly. The UK does not get a second chance, this is it the real deal. The notion that the UK parliament can somhow...

... Building regs allow for a defense, but duty of care, professional responsibility can trump that. Professionals are expected to use their best judgement, expertise and knowledge in assessing risks, cannot simply relying on reading regulations from a book, and claiming to be a professional...

.. All the above are indictments of when politics interferes with the law, and there are plenty of other examples as well. There are also examples of where the law got it right.. the ultimate overturning of those same verdicts. In many of these cases the police were involved in the actions and...

.. George, I am with Woosh on this matter. The failure at the tower was primarily an engineering failure. .. unless you are alleging that government ministers and their underlings deliberately choose flammable materials in the expectation that this would happen. You can accuse them of...

.. at the risk of being offensive, if you can afford the quality and type of audio gear you showed on another thread, you can afford the price for a few fire alarms . Are they not just 8£ a unit.

Flecc, I was speaking with my daughter at the weekend, who lives in a tiny basement flat in West Kensington and has a work colleague from around the Grenfell building. Her take was that there was much more of an intercommunity interaction than your picture paints. Younger people will in any...

Why? Who stands to gain by delaying publishing reasonable statistics. That the police commander, said on day 1 that they would be cautious was commendable, but that was a number of days ago. He has since stated that firemen have been in every flat in the building. Now either they are waiting...

Not quite, Sony were the first company to licence transistor manufacture, the second company to put a transistor radio set on the market, and the first to do so with their own transistors. My family had one in Ireland in 1957.! ( Yes that date is correct) . I was given access to it and continued...

... I am charitably assuming that the question related to travel distance not matters romantic...

.. the good news is that those papers and headlines from yesterday are now holding the kitchen waste , so need not be referred to again.

... Some of us were well aware of this, certainly the readers pages in magazines like French Property and similar titles have been voicing it for months.

Couple of points. 1. The output voltage from the charger to the battery is zero until the charger is powered up and a contact has been made with the battery. The Bosch has extra contacts for this communication. 2. The green lights on the side of the battery pack blink as the battery charges and...

... What a brilliant response by the Muslim community in Finsbury park. Capturing the alleged perpetrator, denying him martyrdom, and then handing him over to the police. Presumably he will now eke out his days in a mental hospital or a prison for decades to come.,giving him plenty of time to...

See I can agree with you yes I am very worried about a hard Brexit, as are many of the people south of the border. A border which exists currently as a slight change in road surfaces, but is very likely to become a completely different animal, if a hard Brexit results. How will you feel when you...

... Yep" an eye for an eye until everyone is blind".. from there were roses , by your county man... There were 143 murders due to what you would rank as" terrorist"incidents in the EU last year, there were 25,500 road deaths...in the same geographic region. All to be abhorred. Are you not...

.. would not be akin in wanting all the money back spent on the wife's and children's food, clothing medical expenses after a domestic resource?

Copied from the Irish times yesterday . Article by fintan o toole Dante and Beatrice. Quasimodo and Esmeralda. Cyrano and Roxane. Don Quixote and Esmeralda. These unrequited loves have great poignancy. But they’ve nothing on the tenderest, most poignant tale of unrequited love in our times...

... According to one of David Attenboroughs documentaries, that is why man started to walk upright .. to get the hotter growing brain further away from the ground.

20 kg out of 100 kg is a very large reduction, considering that bones , skull ,organs will have remained nearly similar mass, that is a massive reduction in the fat, water and fluids , so you won't have the same capacity as before. The 20kgs you have lost has gone somewhere, but may have left...

Could it be an unexpected consequence of your recent weight loss? Since it has occurred in two different sites and at the extremities, gout seems plausible. Since you have lost a lot of mass, mainly water, then there is less space to dilute blood solutes, gout is a crystalline form of uric...