Don't knock them. Very useful when going somewhere by air from a UK airport. (View Post)

Eh? They have school buses in the UK, depending on the distance from school which the pupil lives (obviously more for small towns and rural areas). The economics of busing all pupils is of course ver… (View Post)

Hmm, Tory think tank head couldn't possibly have any reason to be snotty about how London is run, could he? See, if he were genuinely worried about the rest of us he'd say *where* this bit of London … (View Post)

That sounds very like the crofting lands in Scotland, albeit a bit later on. The crofters usually didn't remodel the old traditional turfed/thatched house = called tigh dubh, black house, in the Gael… (View Post)

Indeed. Alas the Edinburgh supercompuiter story isn't an edifying one as regards the current lot. https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/uk_national_supercomputer_edinburgh/ (View Post)