Also an informant/intelligence asset to the UK secret services IIRc - but I don't know enough to make a judgement call. (View Post)

Surely it's a work song for weighing the anchor etc by hand windlass or capstan, to coordinate the rhythm - and the drunk is lying blotto after his last run ashore and NOT DOING HIS SHARE OF THE WORK… (View Post)

I knew we were importing far too much in the way of Usonian politics and culture. (View Post)

Very similar phenomena in Oxford - in the 1980s it had that sort of scrub-scrapyard-widget works-andf-allotment ecotope all the way down the Thames and canal/railway corridor. Went back a few years a… (View Post)

CGT on the vendor? Both taxes try to claw back some of the capital gain in the housing market boosted by successive, mainly Tory, governments. (View Post)