Whitey Grandad

That's only true if you don't care about rush hours, peak hour transport pricing, broadcasting timings and all the rest. I could change my operating hours to get more evening light near the equinoxes but I would only lose an extra hour a day stuck in traffic.

Why pick on these? Why not pop stars and football players? Who is more deserving (if anyone)?

The previous trial was different in that we had summer time all year long with no change in the clocks. I'm 100% for the change to one hour forward all year long. In the winter it'll be dark anyway but the extra evening light in spring and autumn would be marvelous. As for the jocks, they have their own parliament so they can have their own time, should they so wish.

Don't forget that it's the post that is made redundant, not the employee. All holders of jobs which are under consideration for redundancy must be chosen fairly without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, or a host of other characteristics. You can always call ACAS, they have a helpline: http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1365

Formerly a towpath, presumably. You'd hope that the horses didn't look down.

These are my feelings to. He was worth a punt, but maybe not another one.

Pesky Little Englanders! Still living in the past. Some of us are trying to get on with forging a new World Order.

Likely Lads.

Best comedy film of all time.

Too generous, it's true, but don't forget that you cannot get your initial investment back.

My house has had loft and cavity insulation since it was built 30 years ago, and all the windows have been replaced with modern double-glazed units so there's not much improvement to be made. (I think you have a double-negative in there somewhere?)

If you do buy a bat, make sure it's a cricket bat and not a baseball one. That way you can justifiably claim that it was normal for it to be in your bedroom and it was the only thing that you could lay your hands on.

As I understand it, a magnetic field cannot exist inside a superconductor which is how maglev trains work. This quantum levitation is new to me. It's the memory effect that I cannot quite grasp. Basic magents are bad enough, I don't think anybody really understands permanent magnetism. I do remember a school experiment with a tube of liquid oxygen (which is paramagnetic) hanging on a bit of string and being pulled towards a big horseshoe magnet. It's all magic too me.

Indeed. But as far as I can tell, none of the present climate models take any account of the cosmic activity of the sun, and for very understandable reasons. Until now there has been no science concerning this interaction and so it could not be included, but more importantly nobody can predict what the sun is going to do anyway.

There must be an application waiting somewhere for this: http://www.wimp.com/quantumlevitation/

Other points of view: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100102296/sun-causes-climate-change-shock/ http://www.science20.com/science_20/cloud_and_cosmic_ray_climate_change_blow-82089

Even if such warming is staving off an ice age? The scientific concensus when I was younger was that we are in an inter-glacial warm period and that we are overdude another period of global freezing.

It's very difficult to prove a negative (non-correlation) but there may be other influences: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/24/breaking-news-cern-experiment-confirms-cosmic-rays-influence-climate-change/

Rather global warming than an ice age.

It's not the 6-game form that interests me, rather the 46-game form. I look forward to a 20 point lead at the end of this season.

Er... what's a mortgage?

Those who live by the sword....

Agreed. There's no point having a flag if it's never used.

Thanks for that, incredible, and strangely disturbing.