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Your reply inadvertantly takes advantage of my shorthand, I was not forecasting the sudden end of all biological life of course. My final line: "Our early demise would save biological life on this planet." Would better have been expressed as: "Our early demise would save much other biological...

What I posted was very true and I'm afraid you are a bit out of sequence. Callaghan had become a figurehead since the IMF were running our economy as a condition of bailing us out, so effectively Thatcher took over from what they did. She did in fact initially very rapidly reduce inflation for...

That's the best possible outcome and good news in my view. I've long maintained that the human race is a disease fulfilling all the conditions for that designation. Particularly that of infecting to an overwhelming degree its host, planet earth, to the point of its own eventual destruction...

That's good to learn, it's something I did twice over thanks to some good fortune. Coming out of the army at 24 and with plenty of savings I wasn't ready to settle down and didn't know where I would yet. My parents had never been well off and were renting at a time of worrying rapid rent...

No, between 1.2 and 1.9 miles at three different school levels, but the 1.9 miles I had to run twice each lunch hour to somehow fit in the two way journey and midday dinner. In those very different 1940s days mothers like mine felt inferior if their kids had a school lunch, a sort of social...

A meaningless graph without a full understanding of how the public and politicians have caused the growth, so some explanation is called for: 1) The sharp dip in the 1910s was caused by WW1. 2) The plateau following extending into the 1940s caused by the Great Depression and WW2. 3) The...

I was an apprentice motor cycle mechanic. Times change and 73 years ago that was not as unusual as you seem to think. Being shortly after WW2 with a desperate shortage of all motor vehicles we supplemented with selling, fitting and servicing assist motors for bicycles, starting my long term...

While I agree with your sentiment, they were NOT children in law and that description is too often used to excuse bad behaviour. At 15 and 16 years old respectively they were legally young persons with extensive responsibilities.** In British law “young person” means a person who has attained...

Quality very high. Best cells and construction by a real expert. There has been the odd cheaper service from time to time, but the fact that they are no longer operating says it all. .

In answer to your question, years ago there could have been a market for them. But now there's too many frames about which no longer have a traditional horizontal crossbar triangle:

There is no debate where police following in a car or van is concerned: With blue lights and siren is pursuit and an order to stop. Without blues lights and siren is just following. The latter might mean the police wish to communicate in due course with the driver they are following, but only...

Just wait 'til the cars get hold of it, will an Aston Martin give way to an Audi? ;) Seriously, it's hacking in that could be the big problem, organising ever bigger motorway pileups or head on crashes. It's just such a tempting target for the malicious. .

Whoa !! Leave Corbyn out, the Tories have already implemented half his policies, nationalising rail, paying people not to work, subsidising fuel, food handouts for the needy, They only need to learn the words for "The Red Flag" now, Labour's anthem. .

Fully agree with your entire post. Trouble with the quoted part though is hacking, the intent could be malicious. Or the alternative, a car on each side of a single lane hump back bridge unable to decide or concede who goes first, so stuck there all day. I don't think the AI protagonists have...

And are arrogant and elated irrationally, such as when they think they have successfully lost a police tail with the police forced to turn off. Combine your post and my response and we have what is called balance, something so sadly lacking in this thread. .

Agreed, and in line with what I posted, and why I mentioned the attempt at a solution with "fast tracking" to get more suitable recruits. .

Police no longer present at the time so there was no intimidation causing the accident. Indeed there was no intimidation at any point. If the police had wanted to intimidate when following earlier they'd have used blues and twos. They did not. .

They had been, they were no longer. .

More utter nonsense. The rider knew he had lost the police tail even before he reached the barrier, when the van turned off the barriered street. As said, he was no longer under any pressure of any sort when he went though the barrier and into another street with no police following or in...

It has a longish seat with a metal extension and apparently passenger footrests are available as an extra. But it's not really relevant since the use was illegal in so many ways: It was clearly an offroad motorcycle which the maker calls a "Youth Electric Motocross Bike". The rider was 15 so...