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I agree that going from incompetent to competent would be a u-turn, if that's what he meant.

Surely a u-turn on net zero would mean that we decide not to go for net zero? At the moment, net zero is government policy.

I reckon there comes a time in life where violent exercise in cold, wet weather is worse for you than sitting in a warm car. :oops:

The average distance between the sun and the poles is the same as the average distance between the sun and the equator. This is because the earth spins round, once every 24 hours, so all parts in turn get to be near the sun and away from the sun. As Van Cleef points out further down the...

This is one of the undiscussed problems. There's all the excitement about whether a girl who thinks she should have a boy's body should be allowed to be a boy, have boy names, use boys' toilets, etc., but do they ever ask whether it does any good? We could give our children no end of...

A lot of the problem is that the transgender lobby has fooled itself by its own argument. They want someone with a penis to be called a woman if he/she wants, that's one thing. But then when they want that person to be treated as if they haven't a penis, and have female sexual organs, that's...

You're barking mad. (Oh, hang on ...) ;)

Even with gears, 1 in 7 hill is no joke.

Even Just Stop Oil don't deny that the government is committed to phasing out other fossil fuels (coal is not used much anyway in this country). This campaign isn't about what the target is, it's about how and how soon we should get there.

But when it comes to an actual proposal to build a wind farm, not a theoretical one, how many change their minds?

It's quite an old fashioned idea that a wedding is all about the man taking on a chattel. It's more often seen as a partnership of equals. Does Mrs. Osborne equally deserve it? It's not the confetti itself that's the problem, because in itself it's harmless and easily ignored. It's the...

Being flat countries helps.

Also, only a 3 year 7 month ban when his entire defence consisted of saying that he "hadn't got the toolkit" to be on the road. Why not a life ban from driving? What evidence is there that he will ever "have the toolkit"?

I think they keep corruption down by delivering actual food to the schools, not money. The modus operandum is that they build kitchens at poor schools and then the work is done by volunteer mothers at the schools. Under authority of the teachers, presumably. They get food delivered rather...

Fundraising costs are part of the 7% admin. It's about 85% actually feeding children and 8% "raising awareness", or campaigning I suppose. It's a pdf on google and I can't download the figures.

I doubt there would be any threat to the human race from global warmng. If the Ice Age were finally to end, then presumably the planet would go back to how it was before - immensely fertile, and with vast tracts of land restored to habitable condition, eg. Russia, Canada, possibly Greenland...

Some charities do better than others. Mary's Meals is a charity that arranges for children round the world to get a free school dinner. (£20 provides lunch for 1 child in Malawi for a year.) The idea being that children will go to school and get an education and get food, instead of stopping...

Exactly. If we divide causes of death into four groups, 1 - illnesses caused by overweight, 2 - cancer, 3 - old age and dementia, 4 - everything else including heart disease not caused by overweight; then, by definition, thin and healthy people must suffer more from causes 2, 3 and 4 than fat...

What they want is that we shouldn't get our oil from the North Sea, we should import it instead. I believe they think it's better for the environment.

I agree. You can run the show for me - consider yourself head of "NHS England". I certainly agree that we don't want the US system, but one thing that I saw in a letter to the Telegraph rang very true. It was from a surgeon who has worked in a surgical hospital in America, and said that...