Malmesbury

a Reporting, prosecutions etc are up on many countries. This might well be because of awareness/taking it seriously. See @DavidL’s description of the rise historic prosecutions for sex offences. (View Post)

There is the minor issue of skill and training. I think both countries are finding out exactly how prepared they really are. (View Post)

I thought that much of the allegory was about the dangers of intervention - hence the Prime Directive. (View Post)

@Luckyguy1983 persists in the belief that there is lots of coal that can be *economically* mined. Except there isn't. UK deep mined coal died because 1) Seams were exhausted/the cost of getting the c… (View Post)

Regulations are enforced according to the recency of the last major disaster and the cost of doing so. See Grenfell. One wonders about the levels of testing, and how much self-certification is going … (View Post)