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You were right in the first nine words of the second sentence.

One of the big themes of Cummings thought is that the Civil Service predominantly recruits the wrong kinds of people, that it also rewards failure, that government departments waste vast amounts of money costing us all dearly and that it allows mediocre people to rise to positions of very great...

I've read a lot of his material. Some I find tiresome, but often he is right on the money about what is wrong with the way this country is governed. ANYONE who thinks the way the civil service works against ministers in this country is Ok, needs their head examining. I am VERY keen that the...

I am well aware that this guy is something of an eccentric, but his view of why UK government fails (and it fails whichever party is in power, time and again) is right on the money. He KNOWS who really runs government, because he has been there, and he explains why time after time ministers can...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d0j2y3w3eo I read this story this morning about a cyclist who was run over at night by someone who then hid the body and later, together with his twin brother buried it in a shallow grave. The driver got twelve years in jail and his brother got five years...

It is possible that people who are of a more 'careful' disposition with money end up unhappy. Certainly they might go that way, but there is no possible way anyone can suggest that this is systematically the case. I am careful what I spend on and I am very far from being unhappy. Quite the...

As a moderately well off miser, I don't understand why anyone would re-invent the bicycle in this form. I realise this is a quirk of my bizarre personality. One of my sons who is very much into top end bicycles and does triathlons regularly has a bike worth about the same as that one. When I say...

You deserve much Kudos for doing all this and documenting it so well. The code referenced on github looks almost understandable - even to me.... Though not sure exactly how it would be flashed onto the controller. I've dabbled a tiny bit with Arduinos, and arduino based radios and always had my...

That package seems to offer quite a lot for the money Peter.If you retained the old brake parts you could still replace them with the zoom cable/hydraulic type we've discussed before and if you had a failure that needed support from the supplier, it is a ten minute job to take them off and...

Fully charge the battery and then measure the voltage on the output pins. It should be at about 41.9v or even 42v. Did you do what Saneagle said and check that the motor connector is fully plugged in up to the line? He has seen random looking faults many times due to poor connection. I am...

I completely agree. It wasn't me that started that. I received the usual provocation from that imbecile. I will delete my posts. He persistently provokes these confrontations with these snide remarks. EDIT: Done

I'm not so sure you and I have the same view of what a policeman might say about his 'reasonable suspicion' if he were ever challenged by his superiors. If instructed to clear nuisance high powered delivery bikes off the streets in response to complaints, he can say anything he likes about what...

It is stuff like this that has brought the change in attitude to e-bikes and all the checks and confiscations. It has also brought you a lot of pain and trouble, and cost the NHS money to put you back together. Be careful with your videos. You very easily identify yourself. Gloucester.......

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pace-code-g-2012/pace-code-g-2012-accessible#:~:text=1.3%20The%20use%20of%20the,not%20provisions%20of%20this%20code. In relation to the power of arrest - If a person refuses to identify themselves when asked by police, who believe they have...

How are they making the hydrogen? Last time I looked - 99% of hydrogen available to industry and domestic users (and that includes hydrogen injected experimentally into gas mains) was made by steam reformation of methane gas. This is a vastly more carbon intensive process than simply using...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xezw3dkpo Ha ha ha Nearby, giant gas planet? Alpha Centauri is 26 trillion miles from here. Our most rapid space craft would take about 75,000 years to reach it. It is the nearest star system to the Sun, but saying it is 'just four and a half light...

QUOTE="soundwave, post: 749808, member: 13916"] first thing i did when i got my bike is try get plod to chase me, they never bothered. i have had plod in my house told them my bike was de restricted as rode past them going through the gate then masked up back then came in my house and took of...

What? One Oligarch's kiddie ordering goods from Gregs requiring about eight eager, illegals working as deliveroo riders in the five minutes it took me to walk from the front of the shop to the hall of residence. Besides.... LOL I doubt the Oligarch spawn are living in a hall of residence. There...

The rate of improvement is at an astronomical curve. The progression is really bonkers - but I doubt I need to tell you that.

I'm just slightly bewildered at the concept of a respectable individual who is not prepared to cooperate with a polite request to say what they are doing by a police officer, when asked, or to identify themselves when asked who they are. I am put in mind of a video a couple of months ago by a...