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The average electric car battery weighs half a ton, so there's a lot more to it than standard fittings.

It could indeed. On the other hand, forcing landlords to sell also forces tenants to find other accommodation, and that could cause house prices to rise (though the greater increase, which seems to be happening already, is likely to be an increase in rental costs). It's a pure guessing game...

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I don't expect that Lady Hallett will make anything irrelevant, public. But I don't think she will be the only reader of those messages. Can there be a guarantee of no leaks from anyone on the enquiry?

The attitudes towards people who support Brexit wasn't and isn't particularly tolerant. Yes, tolerant in the sense that you allow people to talk about it and to disagree, but not tolerant in the sense of being polite and respecting their opinion. This is not directed at you personally, it's...

Good times for themselves perhaps, but Leeds in the seventies left a trail of carnage both by the hooligans on the pitch and the hooligans off it. Norman Hunter (may he rot) ended Frank Casper's career for no reason other than that Burnley were beating them 4-1 at Elland Road, and I have no...

Which then leads to the question of civil liberties in searching suspected orange powder disruptors. I can see certain problems with making apparently fat people bare their stomachs to make sure there's no packet of powder in there, and as for the amount that could be hidden down the trousers...

Hell to pay if anything about Ukraine, for example, is made public.

For one, I don't defend the government's every action; for another, if I did, it's only to provide counterpoint to the majority on here who criticise the government's every action. When someone broadly conservative posts on a board which is strongly left wing, they're bound to come across as...

No-one's suggesting that the enquiry won't see all the communications about the Eat Out scheme, and it will be interesting to see if it made any difference (probably didn't, since the second wave wasn't restricted to just the UK, but it will be interesting to see - in 7 years' time if the...

It's a matter of timing. They can surely arrest the man who is climbing on to the snooker table with his orange bag in his hand, without waiting for him to chuck it. When does the period they arrest him for the intent, start?

There's every reason to think they might fall, and every reason to think they might rise. Obviously low interest rates were a big factor in massive house price rises in recent years, but so also were the large scale immigration policies and lack of house building causing a shortage of supply...

Who is taking 30% of your wages? Unless you're talking about taxes, then you're being robbed and you should tell the police. And you clearly aren't talking about taxes.

Definition 1 is no use. We haven't had a party win a majority of the votes, let alone a majority of the electorate, for donkey's years. Definition 2 is dubious. I don't really think it can count as undemocratic to have a King unless the population has voted against it. Personal wealth...

I don't think any investigation could have a wider remit. They are able to demand anything and everyone from anybody, as far as I can see. If they can demand copies of all private messages from the PM, they can demand anything. The main purpose of this enquiry ought to be to focus on what...

What is your definition of democracy? Dictionary definitions of democracy tend to suggest we live in one.

If they're reporting that JCB is linked to pollution and climate denial because they build houses and factories, and the people who live and work in houses and factories are responsible for some of the UK's greenhouse gases, they're getting just a bit tenuous. Surely by that logic, every single...

But a discussion isn't being had. It's more or less universally acknowledged that we need to cut fossil fuel emissions and the government is supposedly working towards a surely impractical solution (we will find out); what JSO is saying but not discussing is that we should stop getting any oil...

I would think it's because it is essential to have fossil fuel backup to renewable power sources. It is untenable to have a power grid that cannot provide a consistent supply. No matter how many wind farms we have, if wind is a significant part of the power supply, we need an alternative...

Of course driving is a right. As long as you have a licence and a vehicle and are fit and competent, you have the right to drive. I have no idea where you are coming from with that one.