You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites

No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

You should have quoted fir the job

I suspect down - initially

which, when uncontracted, becomes “are I not?”

Nope ‘are not I?’

If you want something a bit different, I’d recommend Life On Earth. This was the first of the Attenborough ‘big’ documentaries and broke the mold. It is perhaps more scientifically rigorous than the the later series - more aimed at explanation than spectacle, but fantastic imho

They are old, and are based around the ratter unfashionable ‘great men of history’ framework, but still fantastic in my view

• Civilisation

• The Ascent of Man

Thank you

No, you made an absolute assertion. I questioned it. You’re now saying “dunno”

So did Israel tell him to abstain, or not?

Biden will always do what they tell him to.

Odd that according to you they didn’t tell him to veto the vote.

How are the cars on the privacy front?

Yes it does. So lets have a look. Let’s say I want to take my family of four down to Devon to see my folks this weekend. On trainline, the cheapest return fair is £239, at not very convenient times. Better times brings the price to £362.

Add in the price if tube and bus at either end and you are looking at about £400 (a bit over $500) to get down there for the weekend. It’s expensive? Yes it is - and partly because of the limited capacity on rail.

Now that could absolutely could be improved with additional rail infrastructure - but not by this weekend.

Of course, if I was travelling by myself - that’s about £66 return and I have done that in the past rather than driving

And that’s fine - that’s a morally consistent position, that I respect. My main point was to try and explain why Bidenmight have used those words.

The U.S has a huge number of legal agreements, treaties etc with Israel that go back decades. I’m pretty sure that they give a sitting president a lot of room to play with that he doesn’t have with a relatively new arms deal like the Ukraine one.

Its absolutely not. Neither is suggesting (for example) that Israel is committing war crimes. But you can be extremeky critical of Israel and still think it has a right to exist, in line with long-stamding US foreign policy and the U.N efforts to find a two-state solution. Anyone who supports a two-state solution is a Zionist, by the dictionary definition. And that includes Biden - and me.

The difficulty is that the term ‘Zionism’ comes wiith a lot of extremely unpleasant shit associated with it.

You’re sure the legislative scenarios and existing treaties between the US and Israel and Ukraine are entirely equivalent? - because I’m not.

Because saying you are a Zionist is simply to say that you believe that the state of Israel has a right to exist and be secure. It’s not saying that Israeli policy towards Palestian’s isn’t a inhumane cluster-fuck.

Surely you are pointing that accusation in the wrong direction - should be congress you are annoyed at

Agreed. Once we’ve changed shop locations, redesigned the roads, revolutionised public transport I’ll definitely look into it.