But without saying anything about this explicitly at all, starting by commemorating the British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, fighting in an essentially American war, he was messaging how fed up he, everyone else in Parliament, and the British people are getting with Trump, Vance & their stooges.

Public realm schemes can be good, but they need to start from a realisation that cars are a menace that need to be controlled, rather than an idea of ‘let’s share the space and treat all road users as equal and I’m sure it will turn out nice’.

Heavy, powerful cars quickly destroy tires.

Tire wear spews tiny, toxic particles that have caused the collapse of fish populations in the Pacific NW.

Moral of the story: EVs shouldn't be overpowered and massive.

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It’s a reversed concept of danger, as in not being the source of danger in a dangerous environment puts you in danger and therefore dangerous to yourself. Once you allow an arms race this becomes the twisted logic.

Facebook is getting very bad. I ignore LinkedIn, so can’t comment on that.

Starmer and his allies scuppered a soft Brexit for which Corbyn was working? That’s a real fantasy history. You are obviously a diehard Corbyn fan. Yes I did vote for him, but as a lesser of evils.

Your perception is at odds with mine there. Corbyn’s campaigning was obviously half-hearted or even reluctant, and when the result of the (supposedly advisory) vote came though, he declared with unseemly haste, ‘We must now leave’.

The original post had Liz Truss describing a pro-EU campaign as ‘far left’. My point was that the left wing of Labour, and further left parties, traditionally have been sceptical or hostile vis-a-vis the EU. It came out of the Cold War period and the feeling that the EU was in opposition to the USSR

OK this is not much of a discussion.

The huge annual performances of Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall kept him famous until World War 2, but with the destruction of Queens Hall and moving of the Proms to the RAH, they never re-started. After the war he fell victim to the general distaste for late romantic composers (like Rachmaninov).

The best recording (possibly the only modern one) is by the Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, cond. Kenneth Alwyn, Argo, 1991.

I was promoting Coleridge-Taylor 30 years ago when it seemed like I was one of only three people in the world who had heard of him. He was totally out of fashion. Today, very different. His greatest work is Hiawatha. You need to hear the full cycle of three cantatas to get the full impact.

I beg you pardon, what are you on about?