Christopher John Myers

Every so often a car, or bike magazine runs a car-versus-bike test, thinking they've discovered the genre , and spreads massive confusion.  If it's published in a car mag ... the car wins.  Bike mag ... bike wins.  Simple. Except the results are always cooked and avoid the laws of physics. Motor Cycle News is the latest offender, pitting an Aprilia RSV4 Factory against a Nissan GT-R at new track day venue  Blyton Park. Here's my considered letter (which, of course they didn't publish). 24 October, 2011 Dear Sir, You asked if it was a fair fight between the Aprilia RSV4 Factory and the Nissan GT-R in your car-versus-bike test at Blyton Park .   I’d say … not really. Simple physics – and common sense - tells you that four wheels firmly planted on the ground will always give a car vastly superior grip, especially in corners. Just look at race track lap records.   I think Blyton’s is 60.1seconds for a road car … comfortably inside the 1 min 10.87 you achieved on t

So farewell then Rev Dr Giles Fraser, formerly ‘canon chancellor of St Paul 's Cathedral’, you resigned on a matter of great principal. The Church of England should do nothing which could ‘lead to violence’ against anti-capitalism protesters you wrote in the Graudniad. "I don't think anybody is trying to claim moral high ground on this,” you added thoughtfully. I am sure you will be remembered for this principled act, for showing great courage and statesmanship.   Truly, St Paul ’s has lost a fine leader. Perhaps you will one day be Archbishop of Canterbury?

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£1,100 a metre for mains cable! Electrical energy can have a long journey from power station to the plug socket in your home.   It starts out at 25,000 volts, is fed to a substation transformer to be 'stepped up' to 400,000 volts to reduce resistance heat losses ready for the journey through the national grid .   And then it passes through transformers at several more substations so it arrives at your home at an appliance-friendly 230 volts.   That’s miles and miles through different types of metal cables. So how is it that hi fi enthusiasts think that it’s worth spending £1,000 or more (yes you heard me right) for a plug, socket and cable to take that energy from the mains socket to their amplifier? Hi fi magazines, always an hilarious read, offer these descriptions: ‘crisp images’, ‘rhythmically confident, ‘sure-footed, ‘depth and scale,’ ‘excitement’, ‘added clarity’, ‘leaner’. You couldn’t make it up! Check it out for yourselves at the defiantly unscientific www.what

Starts Wednesday 16th November 7.30pm. Eleven weeks S t Barnabas, Purley and All Saints, Kenley Our obsession with physical health could mean we ignore our spiritual well-being … and that’s something Chris Thomson, the new Priest in charge of St Barnabas Purley and All Saints, Kenley is determined do something about. He’s given the go ahead for the first Alpha course in the area – an initiative designed to help people think about their spiritual health and ask questions about Christianity. The first session in an 11-week programme kicks off at St Barnabas on Wednesday, 16 November. “It’s about refreshment,” says the Rev Chris, who started in Purley and Kenley in February.   “It’s about helping people to think about their spiritual needs and about their lives beyond the routines of work and play.   We’ll be looking at life and death too, because these are pretty fundamental things that don’t get discussed or thought about enough.” But Rev Chris is emphatic that the Alpha Course is n

I LOVE Mark Twain.  Just came across this from 'A Cat Tale' : I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience torpid through virtuous inaction are more to me than corner lots and praise.

To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph  Sir, One reason I buy the Telegraph is that it is refreshingly free of PR puffs.   But your defences were breached today (6 October, 2011) with the interview with actress Rosamund Pike. This was a blatant plug for InStyle magazine which, your Showbusiness Editor Anita Singh helpfully tells us, is “available now”. I don’t think I’ll be buying InStyle , not least of all because Ms Pike doesn’t seem to have anything of any interest to say … mind you your interview tells us that she “can now be married or not married, live with someone or apart, or even in a separate country.”   Well I never! Yours, Chris Myers Puff: telegraph.co.uk