O/T but for some of us - the British Library and its commercial partner have made the whole run of Jackie available online, in their enormously useful collection of UK newspapers and periodicals. Rat… (View Post)

Don't think so, surely. KCIII became king instantly by a sort of divine right osmosis, apparently, but didn't become coronate till his coronation. (View Post)

If Wolmar's Railways of the Raj is anything to go by, the investors weren't doing their building and operating with a view solely to the benefit of the Indian population. (View Post)

Someone ought to have told Mrs T and her successors before they did that with the UK. (View Post)

Pity they didn't ask about Sir David Attenborough. Plus his rating is markedly more politically significant than some might think at first glance. (View Post)