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It's a spring device that stops the front wheel flopping about at rest but still allows normal steering, as Woosh's illustration. Popular on the continent on practical bikes. .

I've got all that and a lot more on my desktop, and with a much larger screen for half the price! And it always works, unlike many of Microsoft's unreliable Surface laptops. .

Indeed, some of the dense woodlands there have been compared to rain forests due to the growth rates and complex variety of mosses etc that grow in them, unlike anywhere else in the UK, ,

And this is as it should be, one-offs which just like the trees have lasting effects over many years, even centuries, so do the greatest good for the money. It's wise expenditure that local rulers often don't make out of short term political expediency. Hospitals and schools are bottomless...

The 3000 euros plants a tree that will be there for for 300 years to give pleasure to all. Poor conditions engender low expectations of betterment and promote despair. One of the best ways to improve people's lives is to improve their environment to make them feel better. .

Don't worry, there'll be a new government along within a few weeks. In 2008 they stopped counting at number 62 since WW2. Italy has it right, don't bother with running anything, just let everyone sort things out for themselves. That's why the people are individually so happy and prosperous...

I did wonder that misplacing possibility Ian, having done it myself on odd occasions, but also saw it could be the punctuation. .

It may have been the use of dashes to separate parts of this sentence instead of the more correct commas: Three scenarios drawn up in Whitehall and obtained by the Sunday Times – the worst referred to as “armageddon” – lay out the consequences should Britain walk away from the negotiating table. .

You were in good company, many did this in various countries, particularly the USA whose citizens often disappeared south. Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) famously refused to serve. Avoiding the possibility of killing fellow beings isn't necessarily shameful. I did go in and and signed up for a...

I didn't see it but that was predictable. It never ceases to surprise me how some of the old glorify war. There's a more peaceful way of dramatically reducing unemployment, we used it after WW2 to compensate for the huge numbers of military being discharged with insufficient employment...

But his proposal is still stupid if impossible to implement. Surely the only Brexit voters this could convince would be the ones with no influence and therefore worthless for his purpose, those with some intelligence able to immediately see the flaw. .

Yes in money making, but definitely stupid in the way I illustrated. .

Well Tom has been joined by the BBC now. A week ago they broadcast a TV program on BBC 4 titled "Jonathan Meades on Jargon" in which Meades used his ascerbic wit with graphics to attack misuse and distortion of the language, including by politicians. It wasn't far into the program when the...

This just shows how little such people think. No country will sign a trade deal with a country prepared to breach their trade deal with someone else to do that! How stupid must Crispin Odey be? .

Well we've all got investments, every National Insurance deduction is one in our future. And every property purchase. .

Jealous? :D .

And a lifeline for Catalonia perhaps? I would expect Pedro Sanchez to release the Catlunian leaders from prison at least in return for their support in parliament. Hopefully later dropping the charges against them. .

But we did call out both of them for those associations, just as I posted, so at least regular members knew their status, just as you did. So we do informally watch out for excesses. Over time others have been publically identified immediately and ceased that type of posting. .

I don't mind this and think your last comment very relevant. At least when done as it is here it's very open and obvious, easy to recognise. Indeed the administrators insist that all trade members identify as such in every post. Also we quickly call out any member who has some sort of...

Eddie's last post in here was 29th January 2013. Since he posted very frequently the ban must have been just after that. .