In fairness to TwiX it just served up a video of a 1994 Eagles acoustic performance of Hotel California, which was a nice start to the week. Can't help feeling it's going to be downhill aft… (View Post)

Renowned travel writer Simon Winchester went to Chagos when researching Outposts ('Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire'). He was, predictably, given the bum's rush b… (View Post)

On canals, and probably railways too, such structures are called 'accommodation bridges', not because they are comfortable places to live but because their purpose is to 'accommodate&#… (View Post)

A belief that the creation of Israel was 'wrong' is inherently meaningless unless the believer can spell out the method by which they hope to change it. In the British context it would be e… (View Post)

There was even a youthful fan club called Ovaltinis. Nowadays they're just oval. (View Post)