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No, it's a partnership of equals, as much about principles as anything else. The long term intention is union and that requires a basis of equality. In any case an unequal partnership couldn't work over time since economies change and that would entail altering the rules all the time as...

Perfectly put. .

Elon Musk, can that really be someone's name, or is it made up to attract attention for publicity? Maybe it's anagrams? Reshuffle Elon and we get Noel or Leon. Seems I'm on the right lines here. Reshuffle Musk and - - - - of course! It's Noel Skum He must be one of the tories Old Tom's...

Disney perhaps? Would fit in well with their cartoon business. .

As baffling to us in the UK as to anyone else, and it's not just public services. Public equipment procurement is just as guilty, all things we once made in the UK get shut down while government buys from abroad or encourages others to do so. Prominent examples are trains and most recently...

Too moderate? .

That's not the point though, it's a place for letting off steam, just like our time honoured pubs where minds are also rarely changed. .

Yes, all the apparatus of coronation is very old, it was many of the additionals that Victoria created. I agree about the deprivations the Queen's royal life has entailed, but to what point in this modern age? Other nations like Australia and even the USA have "royal" style state coaches and...

That's just the State Coach version. There's also much more recent ones, the 2014 Diamond Jubilee Coach, built in Australia, that's been used for many events including the opening of parliament ceremony. The Aussies paid for that one to be produced but the palace has paid for it since in order...

I was very surprised when listening to a program on this subject to discover from experts in these areas that a suprising amount of it is not very old. It was Queen Victoria, aided by Prince Albert, who instituted much of what we see today. The uniforms, the masses of gilt and some of the...

I've been around it too long (67 years) for you to get away with that! I don't know of one e-bike seller who has withdrawn due to age. They failed for various reasons, not enough share of the small market, lack of innovation, duff product, excessively priced, getting a bad name from poor...

Well over his 13 years in the business he'd have been right well over 50% of the time. :) Almost 11 years ago I attended an e-bike show where David was also displaying his wares. Of the others there, only two still exist and one of them has been bankrupt since and rescued, but now much...

But employing to advantage the richness of meaning in words of the English language, the Germans were repulsed by the Americans. .

The numbers of e-bike sellers who've failed over the last two decades greatly exceeds those who remain, and currently two very experienced trade members agree that at least three more will fail this year. I think in the UK often a very dodgy investment indeed. ,

I've agreed with that to Steb, but he implied it wasn't right for anyone to invest in property. That I won't agree with when it's the only practical way to protect ordinary people's moderate amounts of money from shrinking due to inflation. .

But imagine if we'd all just said to the Germans and Japanese, "That's fine, by all means take over or walk on by, just ask if you need to know where anything is". That would have saved around 80 million lives worldwide and avoided countless millions of horrific injuries. Those are what...

Here I agree and disagree. I agree it's not sustainable long term, but it is right if investing in property is the only way to avoid losing what one has worked for. You wouldn't blame someone for protecting their home and other property against thieves of various kinds reducing what they...

Whilst there's much truth in this, I can't blame Tillson and others from investing in property. We all should save to some extent to protect ourselves against the unexpected and ensure our futures. Business needs capital to invest and that comes from savings in various forms. Institutions...

I thought that was puberty. And, heaven help us, The Bullingdon Club that David Cameron, Boris Johnson and many others of their ilk were members of at Oxford University. .

But isn't that just your biased shite! :D ;) .