I understand that the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire has just weighed a rainbow. Apparently, it's pretty light..... (View Post)

Now you're talking! An IQ test followed by a written exam, two character references and a blood test for gross paralysis of the insane. (View Post)

Just got in after one of the most dispiriting days sitting outside a polling station than I can ever remember. Maybe I am just getting old, but I wonder if perhaps our traditional way of running a po… (View Post)

Trying to pigeonhole Kipling is like trying to nail jelly to the wall. Very subtle, with numerous texts to contradict everything else he wrote. You think he's a warmonger ? Read Recessional, or … (View Post)

Sadly, the AK47 has not been out of production, except in Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed they had, by then, licenced 14 nations to manufacture them - Korea, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, to name … (View Post)