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Hang on , all that's happened is that carbon dioxide levels have gone up a couple of hundred parts per million to a level which is still low in geological standards.The idea that recent temperature rises have been unusual or uinprecedented can't be substantiated;for one reason records of...

Like all British **** we played rounders at school.When I watch baseball it's clearly the same game (more formalised of course ) and in general I know what's going on and understand it.This shouldn't be any surprise as the settlers would have brought it over.

One or two points to set a context.When people first started making records (roughly 1700 with the adoption of the thermometer) the Earth was in the late stages of a Little Ice Age.When coming out of such a thing it's obvious that temperatures will be on the rise.So when people say "It's been...

Cricket is the greatest gift to the world that England has ever given.It's the game which paved the way for modern sports (football was way less popular up till about 50 years ago) and is the ultimate in complexity, elegance and versatility.Whoever named football the "beautiful game" hasn't been...

Researchers in the field? I met a scientist (a much overworked word because I don't think that a lot of climatologists qualify) who had resigned because as he put it "I became a scientist to discover the truth.I am now being used to support the views of my employers".guess what he worked in?

Carol Reed The Third Man is just out there on its own. Remember that back in 1947 they didn't have the special effects or technical capability we have now.

Courtesy of that nice Mr Brown ( the motorists' friend) and his cuddly pal Alastair Darling.

I think you mean .79 dollars a gallon or 79 cents! It's always been quite expensive in the UK , just found an old record book and in 1967 it was 5 shillings and threepence for a British gallon.This translates to 26 pence or around 40 cents (though at the time the exchange rate made it...

Re: Would the Right to bear and keep arms on military bases prevent the Ft. Hood mass Situations like this are sudden and unexpected.It takes a while for it to sink in what's happening.Ok, you work it out. If you have a *** are you going to reach for it knowing that might well make you the...

Re: Would the Right to bear and keep arms on military bases prevent the Ft. Hood mass You can't even say that the whole of England is all the same!There are 60 million people shoehorned into a small island and even then they are concentrated into a small proportion of the land mass. But crime...

In fact the original draft didn't mention happiness at all , the reference was to property and was changed at the last minute.

Re: Would the Right to bear and keep arms on military bases prevent the Ft. Hood mass In the UK, *** crimes rose around 2002 (it was mostly to do with turf wars and gangs, not the general public) and have since fallen. But by "issues" we are talking about *** crime levels incredibly low by...

I would change the way it ages.

Re: Would the Right to bear and keep arms on military bases prevent the Ft. Hood mass How can it? I was interested to see what happened in Australia (see the original post) that Australian *** crime shot up after guns were outlawed. But Australia wasn't like the US where people carried...

All that can be said is that in the tests applied some groups did less well than others.Until someone invents infallible tests that's as far as we can go.

Re: Would the Right to bear and keep arms on military bases prevent the Ft. Hood mass There's a lot of confused thinking in the original post.The Romans had ab expression for it-post hoc ergo propter hoc which is the fallacy that if one event follows another it was caused by it. It is utter...

The Great War was an enormous shock to the nation (and of course to all the other ones involved) because it left no families untouched.There is a handful of villages called "Thankful Villages" from which no men were ****** , out of tens of thousands of villages it's believed that 41 were...

Magna Carta. The Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights stem from it.

It can't be. Last year a 94 year old woman offered me her seat on the bus. I joke not.The offer was gracefully delined of course.

A corruption of "By our Lady" or so I understand

Pedantry perhaps but marriage is defined, as it has been for millenia, as a union between a man and a woman. Gay couples can certainly receive the same legal rights these days as heterosexual ones but marriage it isn't.That's why in the UK it's always termed a civil partnership.It's time a word...

We invented freedom of speech just as most of the freedoms in the Constitution were lifted from what already existed (at least in theory) in Britain.The Founding Fathers didn't just pluck them out of the air!It's just that our rights were never written down, just assumed. As with all rights...

As cannabis use is ******* in most countries the authorities have no accurate idea what consumption is.

From The Autocar road test (this is for the base model though) , it doesn't match up with Clarkson's ideas but then he was testing an older model Bristol.What I've put in bold type doesn't point to an antiquated system "The original promise had been an all-aluminium chassis, but the reality was...

Back to the Bristol - the T version is something else "In 2006, Bristol announced the Fighter T, a turbocharged version of the Fighter with a modified V10 engine producing 1,012 bhp (755 kW) and 1,036 lb·ft (1,405 N·m) of torque at 4500 rpm. This also marking the first turbocharged petrol...

Yes, the Bristol is relatively unknown yet must qualify as one of the best cars in the world.Its aircraft industry heritage sets the engineering and quality standard and it's built to achieve excellence regardless of cost. Output is tiny, there isn't any advertising, it's all word of mouth...

Just effigies of Gordon Brown. There are those who consider the whole plot to have been a massive conspiracy to discredit the Catholics.My history teacher was very keen on this-for example where did the gunpowder come from? It had to be from the Tower of London at the time. How were co...

You might be interested in what a Viper engine can do in a really classy car. By the way there's an over 1000 BHP version available if you have the money :-) http://www.bristolcars.co.uk/BristolFighter.htm

Shakespeare's command of the English language was quite simply staggering.I've no idea how many words he actually coined but his effect is felt to this day.

You don't surely expect the social and economic reforms to have made much impact yet? That's not how it works. Neither can you blame him for the huge debt, he got the poisoned chalice and took the least bad way of dealing with it.Recovery is going to take some time. Forward planned? Can you...

Not surprising. The regard and respect people have for the US has increased dramatically with Obama's presidency.This won't do any harm to the American economy either.

You forgot Buddy Holly. A tragic loss.

Not a question with a correct answer as it all depends.There are some well run enlightened companies where union membership is irrelevant;there are employers who would grind their people into the dust and where the unions offer protection.

There is I believe one serviceman still around from that conflict , we lost two great characters earlier this year. The British losses from 1914 to 1918 were around 750 000 dead (with countless others dying prematurely from their injuries) and about 2 million wounded , all from a population of...

There are two Americas-corporate,official America and the American people.(Three if you count Hollywood America which I don't) We see monstrosities like MacDonalds, Budweiser and the like, Coca and Pepsi Cola flooding the world with their crap.But the vast majority of Americans I experience are...

Crumpet is a sort of muffin , very popular toasted at one time.It's also a slightly dated word for attractive young ladies. Treacle is generally used to describe golden syrup though there is a stronger black treacle rather like molasses.

No.Tattoos are deliberate disfigurements.

That's because a lot of degrees have become meaningless.In the days when the level was kept at a standard only 5% of the population could attain it was at least a yardstick. I personally LOVE being unemployed, it gives me more time to enjoy life.Making money is easy,but you can't make time.But...

Quite clearly there will be differing opinions through the profession , some for good reasons and others through preconceived ideas.When the UK introduced the Health Service in 1948 the medical profession was implacably opposed to it with a host of reasons why it couldn't work but in the light...

Offer appreciated and accepted. I don't know why such a piddling small amount is the standard size over there.

I live in the UK and in some ways it's a freer country than the US and in some ways it's not as free. It's different partly because we have no Constitution (we had a Bill of Rights back in 1689 though) so in essence we can do anything unless a law has been ****** to prevent it.We don't have such...

......and 12 ounces isn't a ****, it's a part filled glass :-)

It's true that the UK suffered less than some other countries through bombing but nevertheless over a million homes were lost (Coventry lost 60 000 in a night) so it seemed quite a lot at the time.

He came across as a man out of his depth and that isn't going to recruit many members or attract many votes in elections.Not only should he have been grilled about his policies on other matters , it would have been interesting to find out exactly how he would identify and send the immigrants back.

I wouldn't travel as far as across my room to get to one. I like good food too much to waste my time there.

Bonnie Greer was very good. She put him down so easily yet with good humour.

The Audi TT MUST be towards the top of the list. It's like a woodlouse in metal and almost beyond description for its awfulness. The VW Beetle is grim too.You want to stamp on it.I'm including both the original (stolen from Tatra) and the present one.

It will be on I Player-you will be able to watch it on the BBC website, it probably won't be repeated on normal TV.

Yes, that would be interesting viewing. Much as I disagree with much that George Galloway says I admire his refusal to use weasel words .He says what he thinks and doesn't take prisoners. And please people stop flattering Jack Straw , he hasn't risen to the level of imbecile yet though he...

He is always described as far right but except for his stance on race he is ultra hard left. I recall Norman Tebbit describing the BNP as a socialist party.But then, so was Hitler's. We either have free speech or we don't. You can't say "we have free speech but you can't say .............."