Naming is a linguistic thing. In France and Spain where the right form in controlled then there is some control. I was surprised about Mount McKinley - didn't realise it had been changed and I a… (View Post)

My experience is local government more than national but the rationale is just the same. How could you trust a council officer if there was even a possibility he was attending monthly meetings for yo… (View Post)

My town Sedbergh is twinned with Zrece in Slovenia. Just about every time we take a group over we take them to Frankolovo. Very hard for the teenagers who go skiing, hard for me and I've been ma… (View Post)

Mrs Thatcher thought reuniting the two Germanys would be a catastrophe. She would have been happy for East Germany to have joined the EC and let time be the leveller. She fell out with Helmut Kohl ov… (View Post)

Any incoming UK government will have to do the same. The lesson of Sue Gray is horrific. And Rachel Reeves's husband is head of DEFRA. How could anyone trust him even if he wasn't married t… (View Post)