I suppose that all depends on who we think our actual enemy is here. Russia is a given. We're literally at war with them at the moment (proxy, hybrid or otherwise). The US is an interesting one. Are they the USSR in this historical comparison (antagonistic but not strictly our enemies), or is China the USSR and the USA the nascent Third Reich (i.e. it is the USA that is our greater enemy in this instance). To put that bonkers assessment into some context, their explicit foreign policy in relation to Europe is to strategically weaken European unity by promoting nationalist agendas within its member states. This explicitly mirrors Russian foreign policy. A divided Europe is a weak Europe open to exploitation and conquest. Ultimately each historical situation is its own kettle of fish, but for me the parallels seem pretty clear. Trump and the USA are in the position of Germany when they took their first chunk out of the Sudetenland. Their first taste of 'hey, we can do whatever we want and no-one's going to stop us'. They start with something the major players don't particularly care about, and then fairly rapidly escalate from there. Because no-one tried to stop them. As you say, time will tell.

Exactly my point. Sad though it is, pissing off Trump right now over a thoroughly unpleasant individual and regime when there are far more serious and perhaps even existential issues on Europe's doorstep seems counterproductive. Without overtrivialising it's a bit like quibbling over the test certificate of a lifeboat as the ship is sinking. Churchill recognised this with Britian's relationship with the US and Russia in WW2. 

Corruption rules the earth today and if you don’t participate you don’t exist . Shame that’s not funny . 😆  

Hae ye seen?    Knockhill September 26th.   This will include not only day, but NIGHT races! CSCC tell me that "Other local drivers, in eligible cars, are welcome to join in for this event. They are invited to contact the CSCC office to discuss what we can offer them with regards to membership and registration. Note that all drivers wishing to take part in our night races will need to have entered with us in a day race too." So, if anyone fancies a bash around Knockhill, or even (Oooeeeer, missus) a night run, please contact CSCC at: 1 Masons Wharf, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9FY info@classicsportscarclub.co.uk Tel: 01225 810655   Even if you can't get there, this and all the meetings marked with a little camera, will be 'live streamed' on YouTube. John

Must be something about this time of year and shower pumps. Ours suddenly started to stop/start when SM finished her morning abolitions last weekend. As the system has the ability to isolate all the various pipe runs it looks as though the problem lies with the non return valves in the pump(negative head system. These no longer available from Stuart Turner but found some NOS. Great they arrived today only for one of the inserts(fitted by the manufacturer) to be broken . Fair play to the seller replacement already in the post tonight, another day switching the pump on and off to get a shower, could be worse a lot worse so grateful for small mercies.

I bought an off the shelf one a while ago to replace the one I put together years ago when I started on the Spitfire wiring. But I like that one - very neat! At the moment I have this in the passenger footwell:

Out of curiosity, have you measured the draw of the fuel pump? Hardi Fuel pumps seem to be rated at about 2A @ 12V, Huco quote 75W, so 6.25A @ 12V, but I suspect average is much lower and that's just peak on the solenoid? Facet similarly say up to 5A but also say average is under 2A.  Assuming you're using the WQT100030 inertia switch, those are rated up to 10A so I don't see a problem there. By the way, MTA's modular fuse/relay system is worth a look if you haven't decided on something already. They do bus bar terminals for the fuse holders which I hope should make the wiring much less messy, I never really understood why most aftermarket fuse boxes don't have bus bars. This is what I've bought for my Eight: P.s. my planned relays are 1. ignition (maxi), 2. high beam, 3. low beam, 4. radiator fan and 5. electronic flasher unit. They also do a module with 6x micro relay sockets, which would be useful if you wanted lots of relays (fuel pump, horn, wiper motor etc.).

To be honest I'm not sure what I'm going to do/need. I may just stick to standard solid colours (eg. green) whether the line is relay switched or fed from the ignition directly.  I think the only long run I need in 2 colour at the moment will be for wiring the fuel pump and that's way less than 16A and so the 1mm white-purple (available a few places) is probably fine.  The other stuff - I'll mull it over.   

AES have a good selection of trace colours but only up to 1mm in thin-wall cable.  https://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/p/thin-wall-cable I'm not surprised that you can't find heavier 2-colour cable.  It is really intended for final circuits to show what is being powered as per the standard and few of those take more than 16A.   Could you not use a heavy solid colour cable and sleeve the ends with coloured heatshrink rings to show differentiation ?     

That's the issue isn't it. People tend not to care much about stuff until it happens to them personally. But the point to stop WW2 was before the big H had swallowed up half of Eastern Europe because everyone just sort of let him get away with it. By that point it took the combined might of the rest of the world to stop them. It's literally why there's a land war in Ukraine at the moment. Putin's been pushing and pushing to see at what point everyone will react, and people just sort of let him get away with it. Everyone was generally concerned that Putin would embolden the Chinese to try something in Taiwan...but what it's actually done is embolden the right wing of American politics to try their own imperialism project. And now they're openly talking about annexing the territory of a NATO ally (with the explicit rationale of 'no-one is going to try to stop us'), as well as treating South America and the middle east openly as colonial projects. The time has long passed when 'well it's not happening to me yet' was a viable course of action. As you say of course, it's kinda difficult to persuade a domestic population to care about the international strategic implications of stuff that happens halfway across the globe. That's why we need some actual bloody leadership for once.