Sad to see a pleasant, inoffensive Wiltshire town dragged through the mire like this. (View Post)

Haiti, of course, was obliged to pay reparations to France. Their independence was rather less decorous than the British Caribbean. (View Post)

It used to be problematic but Euler sorted it by inventing topology. (View Post)

We need a new town just about here, where EWR crosses HS2: Shame about the ducks. (View Post)

I well recall my first history lesson in grammar school 62 years ago. We spent 45 minutes copying a drawing of a naked Neanderthal man sitting on a rock, using a second rock to pulverise a third. I t… (View Post)