Retired High Court judge became an undergraduate: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/nov/11/students.news#:~:text=The%20distinguished%20former%20high%20court,at%20the%20age%20of%2076. (View Post)

Institutional stupidity describes an organisation, ostensibly full of clever individuals, that behaves like an idiot. The usual response, when discovered, is to round on a particular person and winkl… (View Post)

Even the Countess of Chester has been promoted to Queen. (View Post)

Coincidentally 1988 was the year I bought two Mac II's for £2k each. As I've ruefully observed ever since, if I'd bought £4k worth of Apple stock instead I wouldn't have had to wo… (View Post)

I attribute my continuing good health to a lifetime's avoidance of the medical profession. There are some who argue it's the other way round, but it would take more than bland assertion and… (View Post)