I really hope that fan cars are not rod legal. They would have the same problems which lead to the F1 ban; pebbles on the road being ejected like bullets from the rear.

It's very difficult to find out whether Scotland costs the UK or the UK subsidises it. The headline trade figures show that it is subsidised, but as the Scots point out a lot of that is because many of the companies who's production is in Scotland have head offices in London, so it looks on paper that their profits are made in England. Looking at things like the lower unemployment rate in Scotland, the energy sector, military ports, etc - offset by greater social benefits (free prescriptions, government pays for social care etc.) I suspect that it works out roughly even - neither paying nor costing the rest of the UK anything significant.

But Trump is both greater and more humble than Jesus Christ himself ;-)

I agree that kerbside recycling of plastic is problematic. I would never say it can never be made to work, but we would either need some new process to break all plastics down to common components or some highly automated sensor/sorter.

However there are some cases where you can get a large amount of one place plastic in one. The office I worked in had a receptacle near the coffee machine specifically for the coffee cups the vending machine used. Recycling large items like car dashboards could be made to work by giving breakers sufficient incentives. Manufacturers that have components or raw materials delivered in large containers often already swap on delivery for reuse or recycling. There are a number of easy wins.

Exactly. Where would we be if we had kept English pure of the French language? here probably!

Meanwhile in the UK we can read reports about the debasement of the French language, shrug our shoulders and quite happily say "C'est la vie".

.... and wondered if Zippy and George would be helping Sony too

An interesting idea - sort of what Tesla did for electric cars. Maybe this is the way to get wider acceptance, if people see it sold in top end restaurants, etc as consistent, gristle-free high quality food they will be more likely to try it when prices come down and volume goes up.

That depends on where you live. In rural areas in many countries they are very common - and yes it is a pain when you get stuck behind a tractor or even a farmer and a dog driving a flock of sheep.

Have they really, or is that disinformation?

OK so the "studies" show that Fahrenheit is better because it has smaller units but Centimetres and Kilometres are worse because they have smaller units. Right.

Now I feel like I could do with a chocolate biscuit.

Looking at the large percentage of drivers in urban areas who drive in rush hour I very much doubt this statistic.

This dick pic is an NFT?