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Well we are the Big Society, according to a former PM. .

That will still be uncomfortable. Although the manufacturer's ideal pressure range for easy cycling is that marked, you can go quite a lot lower without harm. Tyres with that range I've often run at 35 to 40 psi which has never resulted in any damage, and will be much more comfortable. It's...

Recruiting female immigrant cockle pickers into the police to join a male voice choir for entry into an international contest in Moscow. With UK, EU and US opposition. .

Might be an idea to remove the rear number plate mount temporarily then. It kind of gives the game away, making it difficult to plead ignorance if stopped. .

Nice L1e-A. Will you register it or just take the risk? .

The Kalkhoff Agattu had one of those, its one just gave a single ting:

Absolutely, if we want to have policing, we must be prepared to be policed ourselves. It's not them and us, it's a community partnership. .

Indeed, Putin has made it very clear how opposed to a return of communism he is, both in statements and in coming down hard on the pro-communist groups who campaign for Russia to return to that system. Apart from restrictions on who can stand for election, the voting part of their electoral...

Fortunately they'll soon not be able to pick on an e-biker. The other states of the USA really need to be sorted too, their laws on e-bikes are a terrible hotch potch and often very restrictive. .

I don't like suspension on bikes and that includes sprung seat posts. I do the same as you over rough stuff, raising myself on the pedals letting my leg muscles act as the suspension. That's very good exercise for fitness too. .

The natural law is this. If one does a good job, showing competence, one is promoted. That process naturally continues until a function level is reached where one is not competent, and therefore is stuck at that level. It follows that all management settles at incompetence level. .

And here's the most senior police manager in the UK: Many will remember the botched police operation that led to the killing of innocent electrician Jean-Charles Menezes. The officer running that operation was Chief Superintendent Clarissa Dicks, and the subsequent inquiry ruled that it was...

The problem was that it was down to individual police officers, so occasionally one included an e-biker into their force's zero tolerance policy on petty offences. .

Of course, if a politician runs the police these expediency swings will always happen, with a mayor of any political persuasion or racial origin. And who was it who had policing powers inappropriately added to the London Mayor role? Boris Johnson, the Tory Brexit genius when he had the mayoral...

Not my business to interfere of course, but I still think it needs a hand on the tiller to give direction. Just leaving it to the civil service to run things is going to produce continuing problems. .

Just been listening on the BBC news about the shocking state of the NHS in Northern Ireland. Large numbers are waiting over a year for essential treatment and some 3000 patients have exceeded two years waiting. Blame is being squarely put on the lack of a sitting Assembly and Health Minister...

I have serious doubts, given that Novichok is a name for a range of toxic compounds. The treatment was almost certainly continuous monitoring and adjustment of blood chemistry which is the usual treatment for toxin contamination where there's limited knowledge and no antidote is known. Coupled...

Or: This is not the State of Great Britain, it's Great Britain in a state. .

They had to reveal that once the Russians let out that his daughter in her phone call to Russia had revealed her father was doing well. That rather destroyed the government story that he was still seriously ill. .

Thanks for the information, it's good to know that the later BMZ batteries still perform as well over time. .