I think a ZX-80 would be sufficient

Well I'm perfectly happy to stick with a hereditary Head of State. Saying the Royals cost a lot is somewhat disingenuous - a non-Royal Head of State wont cost any less (probably a lot more). Sadly for you a clear majority of British voters agree with me so they're here to stay.

Actually the family business is the steel-trading company Stemcor of which she owns about £15m worth of shares via a trust fund in the names of her children and other family members in order to avoid paying tax.

My point remains that an assembly line worker at Ford had a very different incentivisation scheme to a presumed equity holder at a small start-up.

There's more to it than that?

I doubt Henry Ford gave his workers an equity stake in the company and the chance to make millions in a few years when he was doing this research that proved you can only get 40-50 productive hours/week from an employee. Probably paid them a nickel per hour extra as overtime.

Don't you think cruising the world on a mega-yacht filled with every toy imaginable and with a harem of beautiful women would pall after a while? Errr actually no, you're good.

What local communities do you think there are in Central London? Or are you using "local community" as a codeword for black/brown skinned? I'm a white, educated, English male who lives in West London. Am I not a member of my local community?

An alternative is to sadly declare that some simple task you're experiencing resistance over simply cannot be done.

It's because bureaucrats everywhere have a visceral belief that THEY own the data and it should never be released to the public without the maximum of foot-dragging, time-wasting and hoop-jumping.

Britain is an island and so tidal power is intrinsically more promising than wind power. The Bristol Channel actually has the second highest tidal variation in the world for a river estuary. (When I was a child it was claimed as biggest in the world but they found a bigger one in China.) It is absolutely ideal for a tidal power station. Virtually free energy. So I suppose it was inevitable that the misguided green/ecology lobby would get the project killed. Tidal Power stations are not remotely as polluting and intrusive as traditional coal or gas burning ones. It's just capturing the rise and fall of the tide. It could easily have been built with minimal damage to the mud flats and bird populations provided that was part of the spec. Yes it would end surfing upstream but so what??? Surfing off the coast of Cornwall should be unaffected.

If you've arrested them under suspicion of a felony and are conducting a search of their person then yes. Otherwise no.

Why should the police need a warrant to examine a suspect's phone messages if they have the right to search him? Would you expect them to get a warrant if he had unopened letters on his person? Please note I am NOT suggesting the cops can look at everyone's phones/text messages at will. But in situations where they have arrested a suspect and are searching him then text messages are fair game. Sending text messages posing as the suspect to presumably arrange a drug deal does seem like entrapment but that's a separate issue.

A job where the government pays you £200/week to dig out coal worth £100 isn't a real job in the economic sense. It's a pretend job like in the old Soviet Union. It can only exist due to a massive distortion in the laws of economics caused by previous governments subsidising loss-making coalmining. She just turned off the life-support. The jobs had been destroyed years before by the inflation and devaluation of the pound caused by Labour.

Yes Eddie Izzard, and presumably you too, would cheerfully have handed all the residents over to the whims of the Argentine junta which would have immediately confiscated all their land, houses, and sheep and, if they were lucky, let them go, or if unlucky, imprisoned or killed them.