"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law" (View Post)

I believe when it was built, Ely was surrounded by water. Imagine approaching it in medieval times. The cathedral mirrored by its own reflection. Must have been stupendous. (View Post)

I've (only) read it twice, so far. It's a pretty cold-eyed look at how people operate, and how the world works. And how sheer ambition can get you to the top regardless of apparently disabl… (View Post)

I know you shouldn't judge people on their looks, but... When you look at Trump. Then you look at Putin. And then at Lavrov. Jeez. What a grim and ludicrous set of fyzogs. And there they are, de… (View Post)

I believe quite a few of the nice stone villas in my toon were financed, one way or another, through the trade. Suspect the rather nice civic buildings too. (View Post)