Not exactly. The police force's overall budget will not be increased, so the taxpayer won't fork out any more, and the money will have to be found from elsewhere, such as the overtime budget for beat officers. It will thus hurt the force a little, and perhaps hurt the public because of the decreased level of service provided.

How can we ensure that the people responsible are the ones who actually carry the can in cases like this?

No, I'm the Messiah, and so is my wife

the embassy was not stormed. I remember well the standoff, which ended when diplomatic relations were broken off and the embassy staff were allowed to leave unmolested. There was popular uproar because one of them was the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, who could not be detained because he still had diplomatic immunity.

Happily, he no longer has that immunity, and the new Libyan government is cooperating with the investigation into the murder, albeit 28 years too late.

Not a musician but married to a composer and pianist.

Old scores are not precise in the way that modern ones are. A lot depends on little things that were never written down, particularly if the composer performed the work himself; ornaments (trills and the like) would be put in at the performer's discretion, and in the 18th century at any rate, performers were expected to supply a good deal of ornamentation themselves. There is a definite trend over the years of specifying more and more exactly how the composer wants the music to be played.

Another aspect with something like the Goldbergs is that many players will now play it on the piano, for which Bach wrote nothing. The mechanics of the harpsichord or clavichord are very different, so that the modern score editor has the option, if not the obligation, to insert dynamics or pedalling that are only appropriate to the modern instrument.

I wouldn't want you driving me if you kept on fishing a phone out of your pocket to tell you the time.

Sorry, misplaced - see further down the string

I wouldn't want you driving me if you kept on fishing a phone out of you pocket to tell you the time

Even scarier: I visited a hospital recently where the desktops are still Windows 2000

Be glad you don't live in Scunthorpe.

And, to be fair to Lewis, he said that it would mostly interest his co-religionists. His view was that other worlds were really good for spiritual adventures (hence the Narnia series, scarcely SF but certainly spiritual), and pointed to David Lindsay's 'Voyage to Arcturus' as the archetype of this kind of story.

'Proper' SF (which I dare not attempt to define, but feel free to have a go) will always be too 'niche' for the general public to appreciate in this way. Perhaps there should be a Best Picture category at the Hugos instead.

Quite right, so I am. My bad. It's been a tough day

You do know that the D in LCD stands for 'Diode' not 'Display', don't you?