The two parties to the INF treaty stopped fighting/competing decades ago, and one of them no longer has a functional nuclear arsenal. It’s utterly obsolete.

More maskirovka? Must pay well. Or maybe you’re just very naive.

Tariffs are a politically-acceptable way of raising taxes on people in the US. There’s nothing more to it than that. US consumers are paying higher taxes, end of story.

No it isn’t. It weighs a bit more than typical small hatches because it’s a crossover. Almost all of them weigh less than an MX-5 these days.

“construction workers have a shorter life expectancy than other Americans”

Possibly that’s the cause. Alternatively, it’s a statistical anomaly caused by the difference between the number of surgeons who smoke cigarettes and admit to it, and the number who don’t like to admit they do something damaging to their health to cope with the stress of the job. Someone ran the numbers and came up…

WTF are you guys up to in the US? Tradesmen over here often have bad knees/backs, but that’s because they’re English Breakfast Monsters - turn up at work, do an hour, off to the caff for a full English, back to work for a couple of hours, pub lunch, another couple of hours, knock off, pub, takeaway. Carrying that much…

The first time I was in Trinidad, this bridge hadn’t been replaced yet. It had been closed to vehicle traffic for several years by then. Well, I say it was closed, I mean all the locals knew the government had decreed it unsafe

Given that he’s utterly unemployable these days, if he wants to keep racing he’ll have to take many, many steps down in level. I think Corvette Racing are a bit too big. Is the team tolerant of Alonso’s racism, or just Antonio Garcia? I can’t imagine it would go down well with sponsors.

Alonso will say whatever it takes to save face - he’s a bald-faced liar when it suits him. Reality is that he can’t get a drive in Indycar because he’s so poisonous, but he’s fibbing about how it was never his plan.

The car was definitely not on the road, it was on private land. That’s why the original BBC article says the council claimed to have ‘notified the landowner’ of the removal.

It was definitely parked off the road, hence the line in the original BBC article about ‘notifying the landowner’. That wouldn’t apply to a street-parked vehicle.

Pleb.

No, the problem is and has always been funding. It’s one thing to keep R&D going - slowly - and say the project’s still on, even when there isn’t much cash coming in. But it’s another altogether to actually go and run the car.

No. I don’t think any of that is right. The rocket in question has been developed by a third party to fit Bloodhound and for commercial purposes. I’m not aware of any major changes of plan there in the last ten years or so.

Er...

“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.” - Ulysses Grant 

Arguably Grant and Sherman were greater. Also arguably, they weren’t, and only able to win the Civil War because they had superior forces.

Er... Trump’s quite talented at basing his arsehole ranting on some nugget of historical truth, and in this case that’s exactly what he’s done.

“Exxon Mobil got nearly $500 million in subsidies last year”