Yes, it was only a matter of time for Wilko - I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did. They sold very little that couldn't be bought more easily and conveniently on the internet, and their prof… (View Post)

I'm not sure that lack of parking space is a major problem. My local town centre is dying as all the retailers move out, so much so that one of the large car parks recently closed due to lack of dema… (View Post)

Other Western European countries seem able to care for their elderly and be rich at the same time. (View Post)

I wouldn't invite someone for dinner if they expected me to serve them meat, and I wouldn't accept an invitation from someone who was going to insist on serving me meat. It's quite simple. (View Post)

Yes, though sounds petty good to me, though I'd express magnetic flux disappearing rather as magnetic flux expulsion (since the field must be zero in a superconductor). As you say, this leads to magn… (View Post)