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I agree but it would still be good to hear him say explicitly that he’s not interested in the Spurs job. Or is that being too simplistic?

One of the earliest forms of Democracy was based on just this - sortition Sortition was a real form of democracy whereby appointing public officials was done by drawing lots and not by determining popularity via a vote.

So why then biometric information, mobile phone numbers as well as use and location of use, logged by various countries that do have compulsory schemes? What next, genetic profiles so insurance companies can load premiums for various factors? How much do you think these companies would be...

According to the DVLA almost a million driving licences are lost or stolen each year. On that basis I’m not sure how much use some form of ID card would be in stopping voter fraud, even if it did exist in any significant form. Lost/stolen driving licences are often used directly or indirectly...

Difficult to vote twice as your name is marked on the electoral roll when you are given your ballot paper. Risky to try and vote for someone else for the same reason. Voter ID strikes me as a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

We bought our son-in-law one of these to go on his Kadai fire bowl. Makes delicious pizzas but does mean that you can’t use the bowl as a barbecue at the same time. The wife had wanted a genuine pizza oven for some time, so a few years back I built one at the end of the deck outside the “man...

If they had all been built around the same time you may have had a point but they were all built centuries or millennia apart. The vast majority were used as tombs and those that have any astronomical links also had links to the local celestial gods of the time. A pyramid is not that strange...

Worth a read - https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/how-many-people-did-it-take-to-build-the-great-pyramid

I think you’ve got your figures wrong somewhere! Most Egyptologists estimate the Pyramids took between 20 and 30 years to build with an average workforce of 20,000 making up quarrymen, transport workers, stonemasons, farmers etc. The population of Egypt in 2500BC is estimated at around 1.5...

Because Greta doesn’t treat her Asperger’s as something she suffers from but, to quote her, it’s her ‘super-power’.

Not much - don’t understand your need for the comment in parenthesis. Greta Thunberg ‘suffers’ from Asperger’s Syndrome and maybe that comment should be replaced with the one from the National Autistic Society’s website, (While there are similarities with autism, people with Asperger’s Syndrome...

Whilst I agree with your sentiments it is important to say, IMO, that Greta Thunberg does not have a learning disability. She finished secondary school with 14 As and 3 Bs despite repeatedly missing school.

Which only goes to prove my point :clap2:

As regards what would happen to the horses that are currently racing I would ask what will happen to them now? What will happen to the horses that are bred from them? If all the horses that are bred for racing were “successful” then you may have a point with your comment but as I’m sure you...

Until that sort of attitude changes then nothing will change to improve the welfare of the animals used within this so called sport. Yet another horse had to die today to satisfy the needs of the industry - An industry that does nothing in real terms and causes so much harm to both humans and...

Not exactly what the BBC site says Former prime minister Tony Blair - who has made a string of coronavirus proposals through his think tank - said the usefulness of vaccine passports would depend on circumstances. In travel, he said, they would become inevitable as other countries introduce...

My wife’s a care worker and has had both shots - she is still tested twice a week with the lateral flow test and once a week at a test centre. Two of her colleagues, likewise vaccinated, have tested positive in the last three weeks. I’m booked to get my second shot this week but will still...

If the vaccines had a 100% efficacy rate then I would agree with you.

If it’s possible to run trials, essentially using a small population, to judge efficacy of a vaccine then surely a much larger population will give even more accurate results. By testing a random representative selection of the vaccinated population for COVID then this should show the...

And the biggest of them all, the anti-war protest in London, 2003, which ultimately led to the resignation of Tony Blair.