A remarkably dense decision by the CDU. It's a bit like an alternate history in which the Tories in 2019 plumped for Michael Gove to revive their fortunes instead of Boris... (View Post)

Disappointing - for a moment there it looked as if they were trying to revive and put a new spin on the old and glorious system of special funding for those who could show themselves to be consanguin… (View Post)

@TheScreamingEagles Naughty, you've declined to decline Societas Britannica into the necessary objective genitive: Malleus Societatis Britannicae. (View Post)

We had a bit of a discussion about this yesterday: foederatio / confoederatio are both distinctly late Latin, whereas societas is perfectly classical and carries the right kind of political connotati… (View Post)

Hello, as it happens I just adsum iam forte. Classical Latin has a number of options: societas Britannica; socii et nomen Britannicum; respublica Britannica; or, fittingly enough, just imperium. Post… (View Post)