It's a wonderful word, it sounds so perfectly suited for what it describes - like an onomatopoeia only more concrete... like 'jut' and 'cock' and 'flange'. We really should talk about Zac Goldsmith m… (View Post)

I think that's usual these days - Maths is seen as being a bit of a Mickey Mouse subject taken in the first year of GCSE / A-Level, with the 'real' exam being for Additional / Further Maths a year la… (View Post)

Interesting - perhaps I was reading more into the city vs town aspect! I do think there's something to Luckyguy's Miss Marple theory. If told that someone went to a fancy school in NI, I can probably… (View Post)

Without the King going on hols, he probably could have held on for a bit longer and survived the post-Korea shocks! (View Post)

Really? It seems to me that he hates it, and that he's deeply uncomfortable with the constraints of the role. Sure, I can understand that he doesn't want to fail - he's never really failed at anythin… (View Post)