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I'm afraid you are mistaken. You made a jibe about how much further ahead your location was to that of the 'critcs'. I was simply pointing out that you are not further ahead in clean air than this critic. That point stands - although I admit it was crass, annoying and smug, but deliberately so...

Ealing Horn Lane is the only place in the UK which is registering high levels of PM10s right now. It was also registering them a couple of hours ago. The figure is 50ugm m3. I suspect there is either some strange event like a road building machine working next to the monitoring station or a...

The only conclusion to be derived from this is that both you and your brother have a hereditary heart condition. You can not attribute a cause to your brother's shorter lifetime unless you minutely analyse, every aspect of his lifestyle and yours - particularly habits like smoking, alcohol use...

And I would just add that the conclusion of that London Coroner who decided that a child had died of air pollution on the basis of insane propaganda is entirely spurious. It ought to be obvious to any sane person that if the pollution levels at the location of that child's home were so toxic...

These figures are entirely spurious. I have dealt with this issue before here, but let's have another go. Professor Spieglehalter's Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge has covered this in detail, pointing out that the calculation of this figure is entirely made up...

Air quality? This is where I live pal. You can stick your electric busses and ULEZ where the sun don't shine. And by the way. Air quality in the UK is way ahead of many parts of Europe. Take a look at this current air quality comparator: These screen shots were taken right now. 0935...

No those water sprays would seem to be incompatible with cleaning a 650 volt track power system. I'd have thought some sort of train mounted, stiff, rotating nylon bristle, brushes combined with a high power vacuum, hoover type contraption might do it. Like a travelling car wash, without the...

The TFL spokeswoman said the levels were within safety limits. What rot! One scene in that video showed a train advancing through a cloud of dust that looked like a Saharan dust storm. Go and look at the video - 1 minute forty. Clouds of dust shown in the headlights of the train. Also that GB...

So the more modern film says they hand clean two hundred meters of track a night if it isn't too filthy and there are two hundred and fifty miles of track. There are 1610 meters in a mile so it takes 8 nights to do a mile, so five and a half years to do the whole system. That video is showing...

I think that had Khan been a Conservative mayor, you might have been jumping up and down that he was encouraging more people to abandon the clean air they breath when using surface transport 6ug per Metr cubed, and plunging them into the grimy depths of a very polluted and probably dangerous...

:56 seconds to 1minute 40 of the video. 5 micro grams of micro particulates per cubic meter is the max safe level Street pollution level is 6ug (six micro grams). Tube level as high as 176 ug!!! Oh dear - big fail for Mr Khan. Take the tube rather than drive for clean air - No Thanks. You...

Cheap and nasty clip design on handlebar riser. I've been noticing a strange creaking noise coming from the front end of the folder for a while, which I thought might be something to do with the fastenings on the steel mudguard, but inspite of spraying WD40 on the mudguard attachments and the...

Oooh - I want one........ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O5rcxKz1BQM Not really though. Ingenious - but a travelling coffin.

As I recall, these were missing, or totally ineffective. The proof of the pudding is in the fact that the whole tower caught fire from a small beginning and in a very short time, a previously fire safe structure became a blazing inferno from top to bottom. This disaster occurred solely because...

When I went to Switzerland in 1976 in an old Bedford mini bus with some workmates, it took us about forty hours to get there. It was a stunningly beautiful place. We camped at Kandersteg, which I think is one of the most picturesque places I have ever been. We were walking and climbing all day...

Yeah - looks really fire retardant. The tests showed that it failed fire safety requirements.

I don't understand why highly flammable material is allowed to be plastered over any kind of building. As I understand it - fallible memory maybe - but wasn't Grenfell Tower retrofitted with the cladding and insulation? Those kinds of buildings were originally designed to isolate fires to...

It is quite amazing how badly everyone was let down by this fellow. This passage was particularly astonishing: " Mr Martin has no formal fire safety or engineering qualifications. His qualifications amounted to a diploma in building control surveying obtained around 25 years ago. He had...

It is quite monstrous the way manufacturers continued to hawk a dangerous product, and that the Building Research Establishment began to regard the manufacturers of products as a revenue stream they had to pander too. We are the customers of our MOT Testing stations, but I can't imagine they...

I completely agree that the fire at Grenfell Tower was the result of corporate deceit. The email trail from the manufacturers of the cladding makes it completely clear that the people who were producing and selling the cladding knew full well that it was a fire hazard and that they kept quiet...