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Of course people are directly affected by JSOs actions. That’s how protests work. Peaceful protests are a key part of any democracy.

You describe the real problem with solving global warming perfectly. We, as consumers, will continue to ignore global warming so long as to do otherwise costs us more, is less convenient or not as immediately pleasurable.

Whether it is or not I don’t know without evidence for or against. I do agree with a lot of the recommendations they make. The 10 strategic recommendations of the Fan-Led Review are: 1. To ensure the long-term sustainability of football, the Government should create a new independent...

Make the cost of installing a heat pump the same as a replacement gas boiler by a combination of subsidising one and putting a levy on the other.

The problem is not how much oil and gas is pumped nor how much coal comes out of the ground. The simple truth is that the problem is how much of those each and everyone of us use. The answer is not just an increase in renewables but incentives for us all to decrease our usage. One example...

We are getting somewhat worried about a number of our oak trees. They are showing similar symptoms to those showing on our ash trees. This is the one causing immediate concern There is very little, if any, new growth. There are numerous dead branches and the amount of leaf cover over the...

So maybe your ire should be directed at all the media people there - without them the protest would not have been reported and therefore unlikely to have occurred. Do you think that all the photographers there had been invited? They may have been a better target for your reaction.

Personally I have no problem with that sort of protest - low impact yet high visibility. i would guess that the throwing of the confetti caused far less disruption to the wedding than the numbers of media photographers and reporters at the wedding who were there and yet gained wide publicity...

For the first couple of seasons books of bus tickets were sold by the club for the P&R from the racecourse.

SIPs starting to be craned in on Monday - scaffolding will be extended upwards when installation has reached first floor level.

Absolutely not! Inflation running at around 10% - savings interest rates at less than 5%. All that means is that savings are effectively being devalued by at least 5% a year and if you are retired then you have no means to make up that deficit.

Our scaffolding went up today - great bunch of guys - amazingly quick and thorough - all joints checked and double checked

If your only retirement income is the state pension then you are correct. Inflation hits all other retirees harshly. Yes saving rates have increased but only by about a third of the inflation rate. Any retiree with cash savings have seen that effectively devalued Some annuities do have an...

Have you actually read what I’ve posted before replying in such a manner? I have simply posed the question that if it were decided to build more houses than we currently are then who would be doing the building?

Those trades are already 100% occupied - there is very little if any spare capacity available.

Throughout this thread numerous posters have suggested that building more houses would be an answer to high house prices. I have no doubt that we need more dwellings and logic does suggest that by reducing the demand/supply ratio prices should fall. However what hasn’t been considered is the...

Much depends on your definition of “free trade” - buy materials from a non-eu country, use those to make widgets then try to sell tariff free in the eu.

No it’s not - it can be argued that not to vote is a freedom of choice but that is not the basis of democracy. With rights comes duties - the right to vote in an election comes with equal duty to do so. The basis of democracy is that decisions should be made according to the will of the...

You missed one item off that list Only 72% of the electorate bothered to vote in the referendum - that’s undemocratic. Someone suggested earlier in the thread that voting should have been open to 16 year olds and restricted for the over 65s. That would have been undemocratic especially...

Rejoining in the long term is imo the way to go. However the country is not in any state to survive another long period of uncertainty nor to get the best possible deal for any application to rejoin.