Perhaps the most corrosive dictum in British public life is Keynes's witty repost, 'in the long run we're all dead'. It belongs in a dictionary of dud epigrams, along with the com… (View Post)

Like Ronan Point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Point (for younger readers) (View Post)

First time I went to Cornwall I started pronouncing places as if they were Welsh (Lanhydrock, for example). The locals soon put me right. (View Post)

At the risk of being blindingly obvious, Ecclefachan (= little church) is also a remnant of the Cymric folk who used to live in that neck of the woods. Not being a 'pb scotch expert' I'… (View Post)

Eccles - the place name - is cognate with the Welsh Eglwys which in turn is derived from the Greek Ecclesia. It's a remnant of 'Y Hen Gogledd' - the ancient Britons of the north countr… (View Post)