[Edit}: quite so. On the other hand, the C of E *is* an agency of the State - certainly of the Crown - yet its employees are entitled to discriminate. (View Post)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckle_Brothers (already spotted, but not with grid ref) (View Post)

And of course machines were invented and then trouble ensued when the operators sussed out how to bypass the machines. (View Post)

Or indeed x small inefficient old mines got replaced by one modern superpit. Which is what tended to happen in Scotland, certainly in some cases, with associated mass movement across from west to eas… (View Post)

Hear hear. (View Post)