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There was an interesting section on the Radio 4 World at One programme today in which Trevor Philips - one time racial equality supremo, spoke about his experience at the big protest last weekend in London. He said that the violence seen (most unacceptable violence in my opinion) was confined...

Do we have 'Two Tier Justice' in the UK? One law for the left and another for the right? Ricky Jones (Labour)? Lucy Connolly (Not Labour) Jones addressed a crowd at a public meeting and said that far right activists should have their throats cut. He was acquitted of encouraging violent...

Yes - Leaving the bike on charge over night and well into the next day is an idiotic risk to take. Idiotic if you have been suitably informed about the risks of treating this kind of lithium battery badly. It is clear that a lot of people have never been properly informed about what they are...

Why would you begin the video by discussing the colourful display? I suggest that the viewers would more likely want to know about the motor, its make, its power, and the battery and controller. These are the defining features of any e-bike and what people want to know. As you got going, you...

Charlie Kirk was murdered last week by a sniper while he was debating at an open air venue in Utah with college students. Last year he wrote an essay about British University students after debating with them at the Oxford and Cambridge university unions. Here is what he had to say: When I...

Why does the BBC refer to this person with female pronouns such as 'her' and 'she'? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r4zrg35vlo This kind of ridiculous distortion of reality in a news outlet - especially one so embedded in the culture of the UK, is an outrage. It is an affront to...

You are joining the battery fire hype I'm afraid, and fanning the flames. The actual recorded number of bike/scooter battery fires in the UK last year was 211 Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fires-in-e-bikes-and-e-scooters/fires-in-e-bikes-and-e-scooters-2024 The number of...

I was thinking that the other day when I read the post. 58.8v @20 amps is nearly 1200 watt charge rate. It is getting towards the power used in a cheap electric kettle. A significant amount of battery heating must be created in charging like that, not to mention an increased risk of a battery...

Which theory are you talking about?

I think Hancock was utterly useless. He appeared on many evenings in those covid briefings looking like a rabbit caught in the headlights of a speeding, forty-ton truck. It is the opinion of Cummings, to whom really we owe the success of the vaccine program which was brought about by his...

As for whether the pretty useless Hancock was responsible for people refusing vaccines, I don't think that is at all true. There was already a massive, ill-informed movement against vaccination, that had been fuelled by the charlatan, Andrew Wakefield late of this parish (UK) and many other...

The Chinese at the beginning, suppressed information and put medical people in prison who departed from their official line. If the Chinese government when they first knew they had an outbreak had told the truth and publicised it, other governments could have stopped travel from China and saved...

This is the nothing is off topic thread I was thinking about the way politicians across the world have been often criticised for judgements when what they knew when they made them, were honestly made and insofar as they were in line with the best information they had, were reasonable at the...

It wasn't.

It is very easy to trash politicians and their advisers about what happened during the pandemic. They made good and bad decisions based on what they knew at the time. As far as I know, they did their best. I am put in mind of a saying of Donald Rumsfeld in the year 2000 about the hunt for Bin...

Greasy dirt on the rotor and pads will certainly make them squeal. Isopropyl alcohol and a bit of wet and dry and a wipe off after with a spotless rag will stop that, if the cause is dirt. My little Argos folder's back brake tends to shriek and need cleaning now and then. Maybe I have been too...

Another period of electrical technophobia. https://www.shellsandpebbles.com/2024/02/05/wired-fears-electricity-and-technophobia-in-the-nineteenth-century/

This issue is very much out of perspective in terms of overall risk. UK wide fire service data shows that they attended 211 e-bike fires, 18,545 vehicle fires and a total of 136,702 fires. This makes it abundantly clear that the e-bike incendiary device crisis is a complete scam got up by...

This another great watch. This man is perhaps the least appreciated genius we have in the country. The beginning has terrible sound, but it rapidly improves. If you don't watch this - you will be missing some REAL good sense. I especially think the question and answer that comes around...

This discussion of Farage and Reform, between David Starkey and Gawain Towler is well worth the time. No holds barred look at his failings, and the party's failings, between two clever and well informed people. I'd skip the first couple of minutes. One thing that is remarkable about Starkey at...