There was ca. 1967 a (then very expensive and primitive) arcade machine which was a driving simulator which threw in such things as a parked car's door opening in front of you. No idea how long that … (View Post)

Quite. It's surprisingly not very salient in Scotland voter wise yet but if energy prices were to (continue to) be then things will get interesting. Ditto Wales, Northumberland etc. (View Post)

@DavidL recommended to me, some years ago, what turned out to be a memorable SF novel set in a Glaswegian solicitors' (the old kind) where part of the plot revolved around just the sort of filing sys… (View Post)

It used to have its own power stations, with water transport and all. Now converted to modern art galleries. So of course it needs subsidised energy. (View Post)

Hanged, not just arrested ... (View Post)