Just read that article as a freebie. Bloody hell they have some utter crap in The Spectator don't they. (View Post)

Yebbut - a Nimbus 4 or ASH 30 is surely more efficient than any soaring bird? (View Post)

Pah! It'a a sailplane, shirley? Btw when I first became a paraplegic, one of the physios at Stoke Mandeville told me: "It's not all bad news - moving around in a wheelchair is far more efficient… (View Post)

OTOH a relative of ours transferred her estate to her daughter, who subsequently re-married then several years later sadly died of cancer, leaving the estate to her alcoholic 2nd husband. The mother … (View Post)

On a smaller scale I believe there was a plan to build a flyover across part of Salisbury Cathedral Close in the 1960s. (View Post)