An editorial quirk I find particularly irritating is the tendency of the BBC to refer to victims buried under tonnes of rubble (or whatever). I've no objection to metric tons for scientific meas… (View Post)

Going downhill fast? (View Post)

My old man died just short of 55. His job entailed the installation of milling equipment. Flour mills, built with wooden frames, had a nasty habit of catching fire unless the timber was lined with as… (View Post)

How I mss my i-phone 1 which in recent years had kept time on the bedside table with resolute accuracy until one night it went to sleep and never woke up. Its shiny metal case would glow discretely i… (View Post)

That's a heart-rending dilemma. Would we rather have 670k asylum seekers or the people of Sheffield? Thankfully it's above my pay grade. (View Post)