Also, ISTR an article recently about Volkswagen's Ts & Cs for letting your car talk to your phone in which it gave itself permission to search through your emails and texts and draw its own … (View Post)

Oh don't get me started on unnecessarily complicated climate control. Our 2009 Ford Focus has one button for air conditioning which turns it on or off, and three dials - one which coldens or hot… (View Post)

Not much consolation for those of us over the age of about 2, but in 100 years or so the problem will solve itself in a puff of demographic smoke as the population of China (and ultimately everywhere… (View Post)

I'm going more with the Big G analysis. The biggest economic problems are sorting themselves out. Simple stability will count for a lot. Energy prices will trend downwards. Like the last one, th… (View Post)

Hm - I think it's a bit more complex than that. Surely building new purpose-built student accommodation, in, to give a local example, Manchester City Centre, frees up family housing in Fallowfie… (View Post)