What's needed is clarity about what the acceptable top speed / horsepower of ebikes should be before they are treated as motor bikes. The problem then is enforcement; the UK has such rules, but also a vast number of illegal e-bikes which are especially popular with food delivery couriers. What we don't want is a licencing regime for all bikes with electrical support, or, even worse, all push bikes requiring licencing.

If the organisation employed low quality people with no up to date experience, then those people are not really to blame. Likewise if the request for more funds was refused by the 'board', then shooting the messenger is unfair. Overall, there needs to be accountability - but of those really responsible!

Then the taxpayer should fund it. (corrected that for you...)

I suspect that we need to think a lot harder about what school education should look like, and that probably won't conclude that the present approach is fit for purpose. One of the more interesting options is - and don't freak at its origin - the 'Accelerated Christian Education' approach, which has each kid working on their own with a computer that teaches them the ideas and then tests whether they've got it. If they're struggling they can either ask for help - and do something else until the teacher arrives - or help will arrive when the software realises that they're stuck. For kids who can learn like that, it seems to work extremely well; the term 'Accelerated' doesn't seem to be inaccurate because, as you say, the motivated / interested kid will keep pursuing what they want to pursue. Meanwhile hopefully the teacher will be able to get the strugglers up to speed.

https://www.acediagnostictest....

Multiplication tables, history dates, state and country locations on the world map, Chemical formulae including the Periodic Table, Physics equations, foreign language vocabulary and reading set texts in English. There is no virtue in learning / doing those in school time.

To a large extent however this debate is avoiding the main issue; why are we spending vastly more on education than lots of other countries and achieving far less...

You assert that without offering any reasoning ;)

If he can the keep the show on the road till then, he'll be fine...

James Bond is alive and kicking as a franchise; the zombies you mention seem unlikely to end soon.

The use of the Smoot-Hawley Act to get this information is, as the defendant's argument points out, a weird use of an act with a totally different purpose. As is so often the case, the executive is seeking to get its way with legislation that wasn't intended for their purpose. It's how our freedoms die; laws nibble away at them without it being deliberate. If you can find a witch to hunt with the law, even better; the present growth of live face scanning technology in the UK is being driven by examples of sex offenders being spotted with it.

It's so much easier to rule the country if the population is kept surveiled and cowed into silence.

DON'T USE CHROME.

In other news the Lutheran church in Rome denied that it had received a membership application from Pope Leo, whilst ursine faecal material continues to found in forested areas.

https://www.thefarside.com/