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Don?t forget that medical professionals have been wearing masks for extended periods of time for decades without reported ill effects. Mask wearing by the public in Asia was commonplace even pre-pandemic - again without ill effects.

As a long term kindle and tablet owner I think there are significant benefits to reading on the kindle. The eInk technology is much easier on the eyes, the battery life is great, and the form factor is easier to hold for extended periods. I also think they?re less of a target for thieves so I?m much more comfortable reading on by the pool or on a beach (when that becomes an issue again).

Wouldn?t the carbon cost of demolition and new build outweigh any reduction in energy use?

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We are both over 50 and not had the option to get > vaccinated at the Tessa Jowell centre for either > first or second jab. We had to go a bit further > afield (plenty of choices). We live in SE22. All a > bit of a mystery! I got sent two links one directly from the NHS that only had the hospital sites and later the same day a link via my GP which had Tessa Jowell and the Lister available. So I think it depends how you?re invited to participate.

James - I believe Southwark are on the list of councils who have not yet given landowner permission for parkruns to resume (at Dulwich and Peckham Rye Parks). Do you know why this is?

Thanks for sharing. The sensible advice is always hang up and call the supplier on a number you know is correct. Minor correction Openreach don?t supply Virgin (who have their own network) but do supply everyone else.

Any UK bank with a banking licence is covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme which protects deposits up to ?85k per banking licence (so deposits in Coop and Smile would count together) https://www.fscs.org.uk/globalassets/badge-assets/shared/fscs_thb_online_aug2020.pdf. Deposits in National Savings and Investments is protected up to unlimited amounts by the Government. Where you chose to put it will depend on how long you?re prepared to tie up you money. The money saving expert link above or savings champions site are both good for recommendations. If you haven?t used your ISA limit this year that might be helpful depending on your tax situation.

I use Squarespace. Really high quality and well managed. I?ve also used Wix in the past for work sites, it?s cheaper but I think it?s harder to use and lower quality.

Would you appeal a speeding fine based on an argument that everyone else was speeding too? I?m sure getting a fine is frustrating but I feel drivers should take responsibility for their actions - especially as you say you saw the sign and understood you needed to turn around.

There seem to be two reminder/booking systems. One from the NHS and one from your GP. Only the GP link seems to have Tessa Jowell on it. I booked when I had the NHS message and booked in to Guys, then later that day got a second invite to book via a different link and was offered Tessa Jowell.

Another recommendation for Julian who just cleared a blocked gutter in a tricky position on our roof line. Very responsive and great work.

Could you store it in the back garden/shed? We have ours hanging vertically in a very narrow shed which keeps them dry and secure. Depending on what you use your bike for, would a folding bike work for you possibly cheaper than spending money on ground anchors etc?

My impression is that when people complain about traffic enforcement being ?just about revenue? what they really mean is that road rules shouldn?t be enforced at all. For instance if the law were changed to have non fine based enforcement say points for every infraction (and driving bans for repeated infractions) I?m sure the refrain would be ?points and bans are too punitive for blocking junctions or using bus lanes?. Perhaps it?s that enforcement is so rare in the UK that the few times people are fined it feels very arbitrary and unfair. It?s the same with the LTN enforcement the same people are simultaneously claiming: 1. That the hard closures at Calton/Court Lane etc are too broad, stops emergency vehicles and should be a permeable, timed closure enforced by cameras 2. That the permeable, timed closures enforced by cameras elsewhere in Dulwich are simply a moneymaking scam by Southwark and that there should be hard closures to stop people accidentally driving through them I have to agree with Sephiroth if it?s something that would cause you to fail your driving test (theory or practical) you can?t complain if you get fined or points on your licence.

The two that most of my friends use are Freeagent or Xero.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I see perhaps a federal system if Scotland doesn't > leave. > > If you really have 4 equal countries then one > can't make all the decisions. It?s hard to have four equal countries if one is ten times the size of the others.

Diable - because it?s a good culture war issue that keeps Labour on the back foot. The argument in favour is superficially simple (you need ID to pick up a parcel) and it?s easy to paint opposition to being in favour of electoral fraud. Trying to engage with the detail of why it?s a terrible solution to a non existent problem requires a level of detail that is difficult to get across in a 15 second soundbite. It?s also helpful that the people most vocally opposed to this policy will be younger people of colour, allowing them to show that Labour has been taken over by woke, metro elites rather than traditional working class people. Edited to add: to give the Tories credit, they?re brilliant at this perpetual campaign and Labour are terrible at it. Partially for structural reasons but also because of the people involved.

Gosh I?m glad you created a thread about this otherwise I?d have literally no idea about the LTNs.

James I thought loft extensions for flats always required planning permission even if the same work on a house wouldn?t?

Droid Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Was checking into a small town hotel in Rockport > on the Texas Gulf coast 5 years ago and the > receptionist asked for some ID. I said "would my > passport be OK". > > She responded, "Oh, I've never seen a passport > before." > > She was delighted with the experience, if not the > PP photo! My friend had his British passport turned down as proof of age in San Diego as it was ?out of state? ID!

Where I take an even more cynical view that Johnson is genuine in his opposition to ID cards, but sees imposing voter ID laws without doing anything about the ID infrastructure in this country as a cheap and consequence free way of suppressing the rights of Labour voters.

We were told no for a roof terrace with our loft conversion as it would have been visible from the road. No ifs and no buts it just wasn?t acceptable even with screening etc. I think if we?d been further down the terrace and not visible from a public highway we might have been ok. Other than that the planners were very reasonable and gave clear advice about what would and wouldn?t be ok in terms of height of boundary walls for our extension and for raising our ridge line. We?re a freehold house rather than a leasehold flat so your mileage might vary.

I think the objection to the concept is that the UK doesn?t have a tradition of compulsory ID - indeed the current Prime Minister and his party were vocally opposed to them - voting is a fundamental democratic right and therefore requiring ID to vote is making ID compulsory by the backdoor. This is a fundamental shift in the relationship between the state and the citizen and properly be debated. Personally I?m not against a national ID programme if it is done competently, securely and equitably - but others will disagree and that?s a debate to be had in the round not over a strawman of voter fraud. The other point is the brazenly cynical nature of this proposal. We have a Conservative party who have campaigned against ID cards, have no evidence of in person voter fraud and have presided over the systematic denial of citizenship rights to elderly Caribbean immigrants - claiming that a measure shown to suppress voter turnout in poorer areas is necessary to safeguard our elections. It?s an attempt at voter suppression pure and simple - surely you must see that? As for the experience in other countries - I don?t know what evidence there is that ID requirements don?t suppress turnout, it certainly does when it has been introduced in US states especially amongst black and Latino voters. European countries have had compulsory ID cards for decades along with very different voting systems, and so it?s simply impossible to cherry pick one part of their national infrastructure and say ?it works ok there should be fine here?. And no that isn?t British exceptionalism, if anything it?s expecting any attempt to do this in the UK to be done in the cheapest, least competent way to give a show of protecting voters while really achieving the aim of stopping younger, poorer, people of colour voting.

I?d suggest Cat that either you?re being disingenuous or you just haven?t thought very hard about it. Any new law has consequences beyond the simple claim of ?preventing X? For voter ID we saw this with the pilots last election, the direct consequence was that 800 legitimate voters in pilot areas were prevented from exercising their democratic right due to lack of ID. For me the biggest difference for the UK compared to Europe is a lack of a mandatory national ID. Passports and Drivers Licences are nowhere near universal, especially in poorer areas. Even if ?Voter ID cards? were free they?ll presumably require people to know about them, know how to apply, have the time to apply, the money to send supporting documents and photos securely to whoever is issuing them, and the update them every time you move or when they expire. The people least able to do this, the people least able to get a new ID card in the six weeks after a snap general election is called: poor people and people of colour. Hell you don?t even need to be that poor, I think my pensioner father still has a paper licence and hasn?t been abroad in years so doesn?t have or need a current passport. Of course since it?s clear the government are acting in bad faith here, I have zero reason to believe they?ll do anything to make ID accessible for those people currently excluded from photo ID. I?ve no idea how it works in Australia, is ID universal? How does lack of ID in Australia intersect with compulsory voting?

In my experience when companies ?self insure? what is often meant is they take a third-party only policy and then cover damage to their own vehicles themselves or have an extremely high excess. One employer I worked for had a ?10k excess for damage to our fleet meaning we only claimed for write-offs. There is a way of lodging a ?500k bond with the government to truly self insure, but the risk of being on the hook for a multi-million pound payout in the event of being at fault for an employee causing life long injuries makes it a unattractive approach. Even the really big logistics firms have insurance for third party claims for that reason. In any case for the OP, their insurer should pursue this on their behalf and will have access to the insurance details for Sainsbury?s via the MIB database.

Which paper should she have written it in? The ones owned by Lord Rothermere, the ones owns by Rupert Murdoch or the one owned by the Barclay family? Anyway, as you know, those op eds are written for the broadcast media to report on not because anybody seriously believes they?ll directly change the mind of the readers of a newspaper.