http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10040319/David-Camerons-rift-with-China-could-cost-UK-billions.html Should we allow China to dictate to whom our Prime Minister may or may not...
My understanding of General Relativity is that there are no absolute frames of reference and therefore all rotation is relative. Is this in conflict with the quantized rotation that occurs with...
have you any books you picked up, put down, then thought this is rubbish, not working, or can't get into. I have tried with a number of books, one was Gullivers Travels, but somehow i don't actually...
I know that pubs are going out of business fast these days but I wonder if they are bringing it on themselves, I say this because over the weekend I offered to drive so that others in our group could...
I did say a week or so back on this forum that many of these people who are bringing up old cases like Stuart Hall's case are doing it mainly to extract money from the "rich and famous". Well here we...
You often hear people after they've been pooed on or stepped in poo say "hey it's good luck" Where did this twaddle come from? How is an animals diseased and parasite filled waste which can blind you...
This may sound a bit weird, but I have always been interested in this man - what made him tick, how he became what he was and, in particular, why he seemed think that what he did was absolutely the...
I have just watched the above, and thought it was a very poor and chauvinistic programme. Newton was a great genius and indubitably altered the course of scientific knowledge, but it portrayed him as...
Who is watching? (I am) Do you agree with the BBC's position as to the LSE students? (I don't - I think that there has been major duplicity here) However the programme is too valuable (content...
Hi all - I have a problem that I hope someone can solve for me. I'm the sole executor of a will, as a result of which I find myself the owner of a car. I know nothing about cars. I've never driven, so...
i am always amazes that they have stopped a widespread past practice of interviewing wives when the husband is applying for a prestigious post. To me, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons,...
An Oxford student plans a protest of getting people to turn their backs on Lady Thatcher's cortege. The Mail sees this as "disrupting". Do you? Should it be stopped? Should he not live in a £700,000...
....is underway. Weather forecasts suggests a serious storm or two in the next 48 hrs could disrupt matters. Hopefully a European can bring some of that Ryder Cup spirit to the greens and fairways as...
ive no idea where to put this so forgive me if its misplaced but I'm watching Cameron and his missus meeting the Merkels in Meseberg The man on the BBC pronounces Joachim Merkels forename as a vaguely...