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It looks like you may have not heard of these bits made by Fisch: https://www.fine-tools.com/auger-bit-co ... shaft.html I have bought a couple (as Clico ones are ever harder to find) and the quality of manufacture is outstanding. It would be great if they made some centre bits as well but I...

I've seen that model advertised on various websites but have never had it in my hand. Somebody who had experience of one said to me that he thought the quality was OK but not up to the solidity of the old ones. (The main thing of course is whether or not it does the job.) Are those the ones that...

I just spotted this on the American Jim Bode Tools website: https://www.jimbodetools.com/collection ... race-91951 $150 for an 8" sweep brace (albeit one of the best models). I got a 10" one a few years ago from the same dealer for well under half that price. It is of course a matter of...

I think that being in that camp is the only sensible thing to do for anyone considering this crisis rationally. For instance, comparing deaths per head in different countries is guaranteed to be misleading. You only have to consider Italy: it's traditional there for three generations of a...

I got in a 40 miler the day before yesterday. My legs are still a bit tired but I intend to be out again tomorrow or the day after.

Firstly, show me a daily paper which cannot be branded a "propaganda machine" (assuming one favours faintly ridiculous metaphors) and secondly, if a newspaper - any newspaper - runs a story based on what it alleges are the facts, those facts are checkable and so the story can be judged by the...

The ownership doesn't particularly interest me. In fact it doesn't interest me at all. What does interest me is the quality of the mag which I think is very high.

Never underestimate the sense of self-importance of overpaid media commentators. Some see themselves as the high priests of the temple of public debate. I was once sat next to one such type in a helicopter in Bosnia and he was doing a tour of all the major HQs. He pompously informed me that he...

Yep, you're right. End of.

In that case it might be helpful to decide what we mean by politics. I well remember the humanities clowns of my undergraduate days trotting out the tired old cliche that, "everything is political, maaan". A lazy notion convenient for the hard of thinking. For most of us, most of the time, I...

Agreed and it is for those very reasons that I think it best to have a good look in the mirror of our emotions before posting in a calm and reasonable way. I'm sure we're all capable of that. You know the old idea: "Count to ten before you say anything!"

There's no politics there. I could have just as easily written that about e.g. Daily Mail. It's the quality of the commentary of which I despair, not particularly the sentiments which it represents.

We've got to be careful about getting into politics here. There seems to be a consensus emerging to the effect that the old left/right battle lines are increasingly blurred. The movement that shows the most flexibility and is most in tune with the electorate is IMO most likely to come out on...

Terms are bandied about on all sides of most debates which reflect the individual psyches and/or emotional states of those using them. We're all better served if the former defers to rational argument and the latter is recognised as often being a poor counsellor. In addition, if we assume that...

It probably is slightly too much of a divergence from the topic. Mind you, I can't see any grounds for people getting hot under the collar i.e. it's not difficult to maintain a friendly atmosphere.

I think that you are trying to deflect from the issue. First you introduce the hyperbolic notion of vitriol and now you claim that the case for capital punishment is simply a product of a time of stress. I imagine that most people who think it should be available do so irrespective of the...

The problem is, as I pointed out earlier, that we can never know who has been deterred from crime by any kind of sentence and by definition anybody who has committed any kind of crime was not deterred at all. This then brings us back to the idea of what we as a society consider to be the right...

I can only speak for myself but as far as I'm concerned it is to do with justice. Vitriol or getting worked up doesn't come into it.

I think that there is one flaw in your argument and that is that you can never know who was deterred from committing a crime by the prospect of the punishment which the crime attracts. Nobody is going to say, "I was seriously thinking of killing him but I decided not to because I didn't want to...

In general terms I agree with you. This will be a rare matter where we will genuinely need political leadership. If this is properly managed there should be no problem in getting widespread public support for a change to our habits in the future. There will certainly be no room/shouldn't be any...