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Wicky isn't wrong in anything he's posted on this subject, but I don't see it as the big problem he does. That China is being bossy in their own back yard is no surprise, but why is that a special problem when the USA has long been bossy everywhere in the world and Russia is no sluggard...

I doubt anyone knows with confidence. The loss of the centre of a long Pacific atoll was noticed quite recently, turning it into two islands, but no-one knows when that undersea volcanic subsidence happened, only that a caldera was suspected. I can't remember the source where I learnt this...

Of course they are, I just posted that didn't I? But it doesn't give them the right to regard themselve as the sole international police in in other areas of the world. China has at least the legal rights they have in the China seas, morally rather more. You'll see that become increasingly...

I didn't say they did, I said volcanic islands and atolls pop up. They are driven up by volcanic activity, most often on the rims of calderas formed by the collapse of an undersea volcano's cone. They form and erode all the time. Most of the lasting ones are are mapped since they are in...

In truth they are capping existing reefs and sand bars to make them into stable islands, so they aren't really creating anything. Nor are they disrupting shipping since they avoid these areas where they can run aground or suffer hull damage. New volcanic islands and atolls are popping up or...

They don't need to. We've carelessly built one too many and are going to sell the second, so the betting is it will be going very cheaply. .

So what is the problem. The Channel is a very important international trade route, but it's in territorial waters claimed as owned largely by us and France. There is an internationally recognised freedom to navigate the world's seas which we recognise, and it appears China does too, since I'm...

But the forthcoming aircaft carriers with cruise missiles have the same capability to take war to distant parts, as the USA demonstrates. We are never going to stop dominant nations militarily controlling their immediately surrounding areas, and I ask again, what right does the USA have to do...

Indeed, if it floats their boat it's fine by me, so long as they don't then consider themselves agents to carry out "Gods" will to make their prayers come true. But for me all religion without any exception is fundamentally evil. .

Perfectly true, but how, as by far the largest nation in the region, is the Chinese wish to control the seas in their area in any way wrong, given the US insistence on controlling virtually the all of the seas worldwide with its military dominance? Either both are wrong or both are right, to...

I wasn't incorrect at all, those seas have for centuries been known as the China Sea and South China Sea. What the Chinese are doing is protecting their own interests against US bullying and attempts to dominate an area that isn't theirs. In the South China Sea the man made islands each...

That's the second time. It first leaked in sea trials in 2017 and was scheduled to have a propshaft seal replaced in early 2018. Obviously that didn't work. Back in February it was announced she'd be sailing for the China Sea when ready, to support the USA's attempts to stop China claiming...

That's one miracle I never expect to happen. .

I don't, it deceives billions. .

A useless precaution against a useless politician. .

Farmers certainly wouldn't get away with it for many miles anywhere around me. We are surrounded by airfields and theres a high density of low level air traffic, including the police helicopters and other spies like the Sky News one below that I snapped filming over our countryside. Not to...

Sensible strategic precautions are not project fear. They are simply the product of wisdom and learning from history. In a country that only produces half what it eats, planning to destroy the production of that half as well is madness in an unstable world. .

Nothing to do with minority rule. My "dislike" was of the huge damage to our economy that a collapse on our farming would occasion. Not to mention how vulnerable we'd be in the event of war, just as we found ourselves in 1939. We shouldn't have to learn that lesson twice. .

The van ice cream isn't made to any normal ice cream recipe. It's fundamentally milk and a form of very finely ground gelatine, mixed and chilled. That's why it's so white and fluffy. .

Sweetcorn grown in Britain isn't for human consumption, our climate isn't suitable for that. It's for animal food. The numbers of dairy cattle have long been in decline so It may be that which has led to a poor market for the maize and no takers. He'd be better switching to winter wheat if...