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Triquet wrote:One of the perverse things is that you need have only one eye as long as it can read a number plate. IMHO binocular vision is essential for driving.

Yes, absolutely right. Fortunately I don't drive.

Parents then remove the stabilisers or put the kids onto a two-wheeler, and the kids have to work it out for themselves. Someone described that as one of the worst tricks parents play on their kids. I beg to differ; I think it's when parents tell the kids they can't come in to use the toilet until ...

Another take in the Guardian newspaper suggests long term problems in UK politics is at the root of what happened.

WhoseGeneration wrote:No.

Is it because, fundamentally, you are ambivalent about the European project? Or is it for other reasons? Do you agree with hir's comments? Do you think the Eurozone will likely fail or do you think the sovereign nation states will successfully amalgamate?

From 'joining the euro' thread ... All politically cohesive national systems, whether they be a federal system or a single country, rely on a mechanism of fiscal transfers from its wealthier regions to its poorer regions in order to try and achieve economic, political and social stability. This is e...

either the Euro in its present configuration will fail as a result of economic and monetary tensions brought about by the absence of an effective fiscal transfer mechanism, or the Eurozone will become a political union which will have the power to transfer funds for reasons of social and economic e...

Last year net migration from outside the EU was around 180,000. We control this migration. According to fullfact.org , net annual migration from the EU and from outside the EU is currently about the same, around 180,000 in each category. There are a couple of significant differences, though. One is...

This is really a question for people who wish to remain in the European Union. I'm interested in this because I don't remember any discussion, either face to face, in news or social media, suggesting that the UK should stop using Sterling in favour of the Euro. Is it because, fundamentally, people i...

Although one of the four pillars of EEA membership is free movement of people, I heard today on Radio 4 " Law in Action " that member countries can restrict free movement in some situations. Haven't yet found the clauses but anyone can read through the rules at http://www.efta.int/legal-t...

What is your position if the reports of the move to a European super-state [thenews.pl, source is 'TVP Info' Polish news website] prove to be well founded? Given it only seems to have been proposed on the back of us voting to leave the EU, I'm not sure how helpful it is as a question. This has been...