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Once again the population prevent the government from doing the right things. We have huge numbers of single people living long term in 2, 3 or 4 bedroom homes, but when the government tried to discourage this with a cost for having empty rooms, there was a storm of protest, including in this...

That would reverse the freewheel, so then just swap the handlebar and seat stems as well. Then you wouldn't even need to turn the bike round to ride in the opposite direction. .

Dead easy. Post graduation just compare the actual knowledge with the qualification given. Any excess of the latter over the former indicates guilt, the degree of excess the frequency of the copulation. .

In a move from the past, cigarette holders will just get popular again. .

Only if ghosts feel pain. .

There's so much variation between people where such risks are concerned. As a youngster through the 1940s I was very much into making things but wood was in short supply with it being needed so much in the war effort. But sheet asbestos was quite plentiful for some reason so I often used that...

Of course, it's when you are counting and someone interrupts and makes you lose count. Maddening. .

It's just obsession, too many are so used to ranting about Momentum they have it on the brain. You may well understand what I mean. ;) .

They did get into no: 10 in 1945. Their time well come again when the public finally get sick of the Tory ways, but the ideal will only rarely ever get a chance. You're right it is a contest of losers since the voting public themselves are almost entirely losers, voting for and getting what...

It can't be stopped by laws. The problem isn't the growers underpaying, they have no evil intent to do so and would happily pay double if they could. The problem is us, the end customers who go to the lowest priced supermarkets demanding rock bottom prices. Either the growers supply them...

There's another option in the care sector now, exporting the patient. The other day I was listening to a radio item on such as dementia patients sent to care homes in Thailand. For less than the care home cost here they were in top class accommodation, and well looked after one care worker per...

Plus a large and unsustainable increase in the national debt, leading directly to the austerity we had to suffer later in consequence. Blair and Brown were thieves from the future to give an illusion that they were successful. They were in fact a disaster in most respects and we never need...

Not just coastal waters, in many parts of my London Borough, including mine, there isn't even half a G, no phone signal at all. If a basic mobile phone signal can't be provided throughout our capital city, there's not a cat in hell's chance of getting 5G to work across this country in the way...

Agreed, Starmer is all about expediency as his time running the CPS showed. A serious defect there, leading to false convictions with many still to be exposed, but handy in politics. .

Yes it was the school age children I was commenting on. .

I doubt that will be too big a problem, judging from the present. Each other's children at both ends are usually rapidly proficient in this respect, it's more the parents who can struggle, the children even translating for them. .

You're right, it will never be over, the human race is permanently conflicted, herd animals needing each other's help and protection but each with a strong self willed streak of independence and wanting to be the one in charge. Just like all herd animals, the only time we are in harmony is when...

The problem is the linkage. To be a fully effective trading block means no barriers, so borderless. That in turn means transport harmonisation. That in turn means common transport laws and many common laws for the personnel crossing those borders. Then you have a goose and gander...

I think you'll find the April increase due to inflation was already set. It's necessity of course, impossible to both calculate it and pay it at the last minute for everyone, my CPI linked one was set on 8th February, eleven days ago. .

. https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/update-on-n-i-e-bike-regs.29093/post-542010 .