Smoot-Hawley, USA 1930? But given what happened, it certainly wouldn't affect your argument. (View Post)

Quite wrong. Why do you think the big firms only do fracking in the UK with small spinoff firms? So they don't have to clean up the mess, as the public purse inevitably will, given the bitty and brok… (View Post)

For instance it's stamped on volumes of an old uniform edition of Kipling's works, ultimately because he liked it. On investigation, there's an interesting piece here by the Kipling Society, who must… (View Post)

John Harris of the Graun (who wrote some thoughtful stuff pre Brexit, for instance) has been considering the flags. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/24/flag-hard-right-prejudice-eng… (View Post)

I had never heard of barytons before. Every day on PB is a school day. (View Post)