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New ways of doing business, and shifting views of how industries can operate - I don't dispute that. But they're still doing the same things that people always used to do - Airbnb has made renting property so much easier on both sides, but it hasn't invented the idea of renting property...

Have Amazon and Ebay created new models of business and economy? They're just shops, made bigger. Amazon is much like Argos but on the computer, and Ebay is a second hand shop/auctioneer. They vastly bigger and more efficient at finding the customers than the old systems were, but that's the...

It's certainly an investment. Anything that you buy for the purpose of making money simply by holding it, is an investment by definition. Whether it's shares, pictures, gold, property, bitcoin, tulip bulbs, South Sea companies, or the first shares in IBM.

So if someone runs into the staffroom and starts making aggressive gestures, it's not something that the station staff should worry about?

The shadow of the wing mirror is pretty close to the shadow of the cyclist. In those circumstances, you'd be mad not to take the driver course opportunity.

Not really Ponzi, because Ponzi is where somebody is raking in money from new investors to pass on to the old ones to give the illusion of dividends. In Crypto, someone is producing there essentially worthless bits of code and selling them to anyone who wants to pay for them. And because these...

Big fences, searched on entry, fights inside the ground? No. Not more fun.

The reason they put fences round the pitch in the seventies and eighties was because of large scale disorder at football matches, and the game didn't go from well-behaved fans to large scale disorder overnight. Fans were allowed to get away with bad behaviour in small numbers which multiplied...

They may have money, but American football club investors tend to do it because they want to take money ut of the club, not to put it in.

How much to lease a second hand one? Do those lease prices include servicing? I only wonder because I have a Corsa, and being a natural born accountant I keep fairly detailed records of finances, and in the first 3 years of owning the Corsa (pre-Covid) my total car expenses - petrol...

Is this a wind-up? Do you genuinely not see any reason why someone with lack of spare cash and no driveway wouldn't want an electric car?

Price is definitely an issue. I've been driving since 1986 and have spent, in total, just over £20k on buying my 5 cars. One electric one would cost more than that and it wouldn't give me 36 years' driving. And the electric saving over petrol would get nowhere near covering the difference.

One hopes that any such return to compulsion would be accompanied by details statisitcs about why it's a good thing, why it works, showing comparisons with (say) England which has had far less stringent rules with little apparant difference in the numbers. If they want to introduce mask wearing...

Here's news. For the rest of time, covid will be on the rise for about 6 months of the year and on the decline for another 6 months. If we wait for the time when the numbers are exactly the same day after day, then we will have to wait beyond eternity.

If the law never existed, why are people getting so het up about it being repealed?

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If it's so ridiculous to live without this law, why don't EU countries have an equivalent law? Denmark, for example (at least twenty years ago when I was last there) sold timber in UK imperial lengths. The children's woodwork room in a primary school I visited had yard-length rulers marked in...

Why is it madness? It won't affect primary schools, which were teaching in metric long before the legal blocks were put in place to imperial measures. It won't affect you, because shops will still serve what their customers want. Take some niche activity that some people like but most...

I shouldn't worry about children's ability to learn. They managed to learn it hundreds of years ago when they didn't go to school at all. I would have thought today's children would be better educated and therefore (hopefully) just as competent to learn? I suspect most children can cope with...

Yes, when measuring distances, it's far more logical to estimate them by how many millionths of the distance from the equator to the north pole than it is to estimate them by pacing out a yard to a pace. The traditional UK weights and measures (which long predate the imperial age, incidentally...