Given the scales at which humans evolved (speeds, heights etc), travelling at 70mph is completely wild. It's not surprising it scares people. Then again, the driving I see on motorways scares me. The… (View Post)

a First saw it at the film club at school - 16mm print. There's something (bit like vinyl) about seeing films projected from film, rather than 4K digital. (View Post)

The sensible response has been from the Poles. Who are re-arming heavily, with an emphasis on building factories on their soil - buying off the peg, but asking for a factory to be built in Poland, in… (View Post)

Hence my proposal for restructuring public services in the U.K. If the traffic wardens and the CCF at the local schools have tactical nuclear weapons, then we can really democratise defence. (View Post)

If you are found in public place to have a bladed article that meets the criteria, you need a reason the courts consider valid, not to be guilty of a crime. In the case I mentioned above, the courts … (View Post)