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You might want to look at some of the reputable second hand tools websites. There is oldhandtools.co.uk, oldtools and tooltique for starters. If I remember aright they are all .co.uk. You'll be able to get a good, old backsaw. On one of those sites they even give them a sharpening before...

MusicMan, thanks for the above. It's informative and encouraging.

Just bear in mind that we're not supposed to be discussing the B word. In any event, the jury is still out on that too and we won't know the facts until all the dust settles in three to five years. If following one thing directly with another, presumably to illustrate the first point isn't to...

Oh yes!!! The raw stuff of conspiracy theories! Give it maximum distribution.

If he can understand dark matter he's definitely a shoo in for a Nobel Prize, cos nobody else has understood it yet. As one wag put it: if the theories say that 80% of the matter in the universe is missing, it might be time to have a look at the theories instead of looking for the matter...

I don't think that Gove was "teaching" anybody anything and he was certainly not suggesting that people should listen to charlatans. There's nothing wrong with accusing somebody of something they have done but to accuse them of what they demonstrably have not done seems a bit odd to me. His...

The following is from an interview with Michael Gove (of whom I am definitely not a fan): You’ve recently qualified your assertion that people have ‘had enough of experts’. Can you explain why? When I was being interviewed on Sky by Faisal Islam, he put it to me that there were a number of...

My remark was a general one directed at no specific individual. Ultimately it's a matter of self knowledge as to how able one is to judge. I imagine that you and your wife can indeed act as per your last sentence. What I personally will be avoiding is any sort of judgement until all the facts...

No I was pointing out that as far as I am aware there is little divergence of view amongst virologists and epidemiologists, which is something which you were asserting and which I doubt you will be able to demonstrate. Public health policy in a sane society is based on the advice provided by...

Demonstrate my "well trained authority bias". It's a bit odd to find myself accused of that as my instinct is to question authority although I do not reject it when it is justified. You clearly want me to have an authority bias because you have shown beyond reasonable doubt that you have a...

Lurker, I think you are reflecting the general level of dumbing down of the media that has gone on over the years. The BBC in particular now seems to take the line that it is talking down to not particularly bright, frightened children as opposed to giving informative briefings to sensible...

I can't remember the bloke's name but I can remember that he was an academic and/or professor and I think I saw the interview on BBC World. Incidentally, the official predictions for the spread of the disease in Germany seem to have a degree of accuracy. This week is supposed to see a large...

I suggest to you that it is anybody who has not been involved in the practice of science at tertiary level education. The difference between that and bashing through the periodic table and being made aware of e.g. the very basics of photosynthesis at school is enormous. The reason I make the...

I've never come across that one before. It's actually quite deep. There's one thing I've noticed on here and in conversations with friends in the real world. Those with a scientific cum technical background tend on the whole to be a bit more relaxed about this crisis than those who are not. I...

I agree with that entirely and it brings us to something which I've believed for quite a while and that national government is incapable of addressing local problems efficiently as it simply has neither the time not capacity to thoroughly assess every case. I imagine that many of us would be...

What do you think are the chances of getting to the top in any one of the sciences without having a proven, rock-solid track record of achievement? It's not like politics, the arts or journalism where it is possible to just bluff your way to the top. Trump is a number of things, most of them...

That's an interesting and probably key point about prioritising. By income I am officially now at the bottom end of the middle class in Germany where I live. I simply have no grounds for complaint yet I know people who earn more than me who claim that they don't have enough. Then look at the...

What Trump says is as such unimportant. What the scientists say is important. If a scientist has briefed Trump and he parrots it, what he is saying is probably important. Two days ago I saw an interview with a scientist who claimed that certain molecular structures on the virus were identified...

Of those 14 million, how many have a mobile phone/car/flat screen telly/clothes which they were able to buy new etc.? Such people are not poor. The number who are mentally incapable of food budgeting is probably miniscule and of course they would be deserving of assistance. I would suggest...

I sometimes wonder about the Eye's literary views. I can't recall a single positive one and I wonder if the reviewer only selects from those which cross his desk the ones that he dislikes. I've also found myself wondering if there is some score settling going on, the London literary scene being...