From the website:

“No man is sane, who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”

Bizarrely, I’m with you on this one. I’ll be convinced by EVs when the affordable ones arrive with decent range but, until then, no.

You were beaten to this awesome idea by six years and I have a suspicion (your slightly higher-tech version) would turn out something like.....

Ah, my dear chap... someday you too will be looking in the mirror wondering who the old fart staring back at you is!

I have a suspicion that you are, sadly, correct. Poor old Hitchbot met its end somewhere in Philadelphia after making it across several other continents and countries.

Unknown to all of us, even in the UK, mostly. What a talent he’s turned out to be.

I’ll add my response to Vin’s as well. I don’t normally respond in the vernacular and there is someone on here who consistently baits me with comments like ‘in Britain, government toilet inspectors have guns and can demand access to your home and that you convert to Islam. And pay a tax for it.’

In 1973 whilst negotiating membership of the European Economic Community, Harold Wilson, the British Prime minister, was forced to agree to demands that cars manufactured in England should have defects deliberately designed in.

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TV license inspectors have no more rights to your property than any other member of the public. They cannot enter without a court-obtained search warrant. Perhaps a little research before you pull another British ‘fact’ from... wherever it is they come from?!

If you’re not British I’ll forgive you this comment. If you are, your ignorance is outstanding.

The exit poll conducted after the referendum by Lord Ashcroft’s company is the one that is being reported by the BBC and others.

Follow the discussion through - I think he was just a bit... worked up... about the whole thing.

In the wake of discontent across the UK with the Brexit vote, rumours have already begun to emerge that the British police are planning to ditch their controversial militarised Defenders for the modernised Toyota classic.

Personally I’d reverse the odds on one and two in your list there. I really can’t see the Commons overthrowing the peoples’ choice, regardless of the narrow margin, and I can’t see the unelected Lords daring to even contemplate it.

We wouldn’t do an in-flight restart on a shut down engine unless it was dire - e.g., the remaining engine decided to disassemble itself or otherwise follow its oppo into untimely demise.

Right, fair enough. I did manage to grab Marr on iPlayer earlier today and, I have to say, I thought it was a well balanced discussion. He’s probably right when he says it won’t be as bad as the Remain camp fear and won’t be as good as the Leave camp hope.

Complex issue. I’m not sure it’s a rise of what we would historically consider far-right politics but perhaps a shift towards isolationism.

Just to clarify, you don’t have to have something old and expensive to join the GRRC. It just helps to bump you up the four year waiting list. That four years was the last figure I heard and it may be longer now - basically, its dead men’s shoes you’re filling. (And ladies, of course).