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This clearly shows strong and stable consistency in the proud tradition of our post WW2 Royal Navy: HMS Sheffield was an anti-missile destroyer, it's sole purpose to intercept incoming missiles and destroy them. It was sunk off the Falklands by two incoming missiles which its computer...

Dunno about you and Tommie, but I'm 5' 4". ;) .

Demonstrates once again that Philip Hammond was wrong about the material being banned in the USA and Britain. Not only was it made in the USA and used there, the recommendations for correct use were merely the maker's ones and not in national laws where they needed to be. Everyone ignores...

There's nothing unusual about this. Numerous standards in all sorts of areas vary very widely between different countries. Those in food and drugs for example, which are intimately involved in human health. We ban many things that the USA permits, GM food plants for example. .

Hammond was wrong and shown to be later. It was legal for use in Britain, as the contractor reported. There was no specific outlawing of its use, just some ambiguous recommendations. That's why the regulations are to be revisited. .

It must be very slow reacting to fire, for the simple reason that it passed all previous fire resistance tests. The government have acknowledged today that the new tests have been deliberately been made more stringent, as I posted earlier, moving the goalposts. The betting is that they are...

I bet a lot of other makers are urgently checking the rear of theirs. The fact is that vertical stack fridge freezers of all makes have been a high fire risk for many years, Hotpoint have been the unlucky one this time. .

I understood that, but still insist the fire wardens I specified would protect against a deliberate act too. Logically residents during the cladding removal three weeks would be far safer than they would be afterwards with no fire wardens. Just think about that three weeks: 1) First the...

Which is why fire safety in these blocks is based on containment, allowing the stupid to incinerate themselves safely. .

Nuclear fission or fusion explosion. :p Ok, not likely, but anything can be considered possible, especially in this period of hysteria following Grenfell. .

Since there's been a 100% failure of the new more stringent tests, publishing the tower names hasn't made any difference in this respect. All cladded towers are potential targets now. But I still insist fire wardens are more than adequate as a safeguard, since they not only protect against a...

I think the view in England will be very different. If anything Theresa May has just managed to even further increase her growing unpopularity. .

Since this was a hotter weather period, a factor at Grenfell could well have been an open kitchen window. If the fridge-freezer that caught fire was close to it, that would expedite the transfer of fire out to the underlayer of the cladding. With the cladding hiding the burn underneath, the...

Actually it can if vapourised with sufficient heat. However I was supporting Tillson's principle of acceptable cost/risk balance. It's so easy to be wise after the event, where was all this wisdom before Grenfell went up? It didn't exist and the evidence was that the cladding was safe so...

On this one I fully agree with Tillson. These claddings have been used safely all over the country over many years and they have passed their routine tests. Clearly there are different tests now being carried out to give different results, simply because all concerned are now trying to cover...

Unfortunately that's where the letterbox falls down. It's a monster, 26cm wide by 6cm deep aperture, all sorts of large stuff can be posted though it. Useful though, since I often get packages delivered through it Someone installed a cat flap in the outer porch window years ago and I've just...

Collecting from the odd difficult ones wouldn't be critical, it's not about making money. The point of the charge would only be to deter the trivial complaint brigade who apparently can't put a plaster on a cut, pull out a splinter or rest a sprain overnight. .

Those who live in more remote locations often have to spend a lot of money to try out e-bikes. At one e-bike show I went to, some I spoke to had travelled as much as 150 miles to get there. Most had driven but at least one family of three had travelled a long way by rail. Either way very...

I think A&E should have a standard levy of £50 per visit, cancelled if the practitioner treating considers the physical condition for treatment a genuine emergency. That can of course include self inflicted injuries, those giving physical treatment aren't in a position to make judgments outside...

There's so much nonsense in all this that I doubt anything can be believed. These blocks have all passed previous fire tests, the Grenfell Tower cladding for example passing the tests of fire resistance in 1997 and 2008. There's clearly moving goalposts at play here. .