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I remain to be convinced about yoghurt. Apart from some real Greek yoghurt when it was actually made correctly in Greece, I've never bothered with it. After a poor early start in life, 40 years of very heavy smoking in mid life and with 82 years gone and another decade or so looking...

I very much doubt that's true in most cases, the overrun is regeneration into the battery, not heat producing. In any case, the plug in hybrid electrical operation is only at the low speeds that are typical in town. As more is applied for higher speeds or more pulling power, the petrol engine...

Twice wasn't it? In the 1940s by German munitions experts and for 2017 by British experts naming it a city of culture. .

Latest on e-car adoption is that UBER has announced a 15 pence per mile surcharge on all London trips. The revenue is to be used to rapidly switch wholly to electric cars in the London area. They also said they intend to spread this to other urban centres in due course. Since London's...

50 kW DC is the charge rate of the rapid chargers in certain public places, never home chargers. Tesla's dedicated public super chargers for their cars have a 120 kW DC charge rate. Of course these public charge points have special mains feeds, newer UK homes these days have a maximum 22 kW AC...

I was similarly astonished by the French and what they were achieving when working there in the early 1960s and later in the early 1970s, and that was all their own achievement. I also had a short period of work in Germany in early 1960s and was similarly impressed with their progress. Some...

Yes, I was aware of that and also that it was Ken Livingstone (a true Labour socialist) who opened the dialogue with Sinn Fein that Blair adopted. .

They're a joke, the AFD has been talking about this for ages, they'll have to get elected first. The EU will outlive every contributor to this thread, and probably have a united Ireland as a member eventually. .

Absolutely not so, just look at the infrastructure in the equivalent mainland European nations. Railways, roads, cyclingfacilities, airports, health service fitness for purpose, housing, welfare, all vastly superior to the shambles of what we have, and all achieved by the policy consistencies...

Why would I disagree, a political party position is one of beliefs and I'm surprised you can't see that. And your use of sect is just emotive. No, it was Blair who was revisionist, completely changing political position once having gained leadership by dishonesty. Blair is a moderate...

It better represents all opinion in the sense that all shades of bias are represented within the vote. That in turn eases the path to coalitions with wider appeal, helping to avoid the right-left yo-yo extremes that our general elections suffer from. That in turn facilitates policy...

Also ridiculous statements. Parties are formed to represent political positions for those in agreement to vote for them. For one on the left to just abandon those it represented and change to the right to get other parties votes is simply dishonesty. If a party such as JC's true Labour cannot...

No, he said Blair was as Labour as Attlee, an utterly ridiculous proposition. They were poles apart in every political respect. .

That proposition is just bonkers! If Blair had been like Attlee he'd have had leftist ministers like Aneurin Bevan in his cabinet. i.e. Corbyn and McDonnell . And he'd have been re-nationalising rail and water instead of privatising as he did. .

Of course, as with any new policies it took time for the results to show. And why we see little change in a first 5 year political term. .

Conned support. Once they found out the truth that he and his created party were never Labour, he and New labour were finished. .

Agreed, but we don't have an electable centrist party. We need proportional representation of course. .

It was far more serious than that. Blair didn't just change the direction of the Labour party as Fingers said. He created a whole new political position to the right of centre, pretending it was still Labour. Keir Hardie, Clement Attlee, Michael Foot, James Callaghan, John Smith etc would...

No it was not, which is why Blair renamed it New Labour, true socialist Labour ceasing to exist then If he'd truthfully named his new party instead of practicing deceit, it wouldn't have come to power then of course. .

My curly bit must be in my brain, since I always return my DECT phone to its base and never mislay keys etc. I have a simple home motto: "A place for everything and everything in its place". Works well. .