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The Netherlands government have announced their intention to ban all petrol and diesel cars by 2025, just 9 years of gas guzzling left! Even hybrids banned. I believe they might just do this, Norway has, and the Dutch have never shown any past reluctance to act against the motoring world...

On arrival, true, but a very large proportion of the immigrant's children drop these beliefs, often to the distress of their parents. That only happens when they grow up here, another reason why I welcome these youngsters. The number of the children who go in the opposite direction is a...

I think that's an unnecessarily gloomy view. Wealth is not only financial, it's also cultural and much of our education is in that other direction. Some 70% in university are studying the arts, not the sciences. And these immigrant children will no doubt also enrich us culturally and...

That's much more like it, 16,000 miles had me a bit worried! .

I trust that's with the battery included? Must be two to three years old though with that mileage, so not especially a bargain. Best I saw was a mid 2015 Acenta at a few months old and I think about 1500 miles, £10.6 k with battery. It sold on the second full day on offer! Shows what can be...

We don't educate children out of the goodness of our hearts, we educate them because it pays, and that's why the drive to higher education. It's ultimately profitable. So being able to educate the immigrant children is an added opportunity for us. We should be grateful for the opportunity...

Although sticking with e-bikes, I fully agree on speeds, despite living in a London borough. I'm far happier at well below 20 mph, no matter how heavy the traffic. Given drivers frequent bursts to 40 mph and beyond at every slight opportunity, I'm never going to match or better them anyway...

The speed with which they learn is usually simply astonishing, and they often put our children to shame. And not just in the English language, immigrant children have often won national spelling and maths competitions, despite quite short periods in the UK. I watched one documentary about the...

I was partly bearded for the latter third of my working life, basically to be able to avoid the early morning drudge of shaving. But I promised myself I would clean shave in retirement so have been clean shaven for the last 25 years. .

Indeed, Suzuki are notorious now for having short service intervals, while Nissan have followed the sensible trend of reducing the necessity. One Nissan exception though. The Leaf electric car. First service at six months, then at first twelve months, then annually regardless of how low the...

We are dangerously close to agreement here, since I agree that we are a long way from the EU being an unqualified success. It's patently far from that at present. I just want to stay the course for the possibility of success, the potential gain of full unity being so immense. Full success...

But that's all your opinion, others may differ, something which I know you find difficult to accept. .

As I posted, there is a cost to anything worthwhile. The greater the potential gain, the greater the cost. .

They are entitled to do that, they don't have to follow a formula from you or anyone else. As you feel they are failing to make their case, celebrate! Don't try to encourage them to oppose you effectively! And I've never said they are succeeding to date. .

You are changing the debate. This is about whether someone on one side has a duty to discuss the advantages of the other position. Whether government with an official position or an individual, they do not. The serious discussion logically consists of each side putting their own advantages...

We'll see. It's a very difficult journey and was always bound to be. It may eventually fail or succeed, I just hope the latter, since succeeding automatically solves the major internal difficulties that exist meanwhile. Failing leaves Europe in the same miserable centuries old state...

No it isn't. He has delivered some changes. You and I might well agree they are rubbish, but he's fulfilled his pledge according to his standards, poor though they might be. .

I also use a Panasonic currently.. True an electric will never shave as close, but I see that as a good thing. Most find my 80 year old face skin unbelievable, and that is mainly due to never shaving with blades, which take off the top layer of dead skin scales with the close cut on the hairs...

As well as our classified section, send an advert to A to B magazine which has readers who are fans of the Lafree, as is the editor, David Henshaw. It will appear on their website and in the magazine. As for value, almost no spares are available, not even batteries, and current NiMh cells for...

I shaved once with a blade, at 15. I then said to my father, "You must be kidding!", then went out and bought an Arvin electric razor. I've shaved electric ever since, even through my army years and time on board boats with no mains, using a portable electric razor. .