I think the layers at 1.03 are punters who want to get their money out now and move on to other opportunities rather than wait until Betfair settles. Not an estimate of the probability that Biden doe… (View Post)

I clearly remember my great grandmother. I went to her 90th birthday party in 1950. She was born before the American Civil War. (View Post)

I reached that point in 1947. (View Post)

I think Obama is "cool" in both a positive and negative sense. He is presidential, articulate and appealing. But he also appears to be self-centred and poor on personal relationships so cou… (View Post)

"The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand. He unrolled and read it without p… (View Post)