More than two thousand miles of railway. Got sleepers and all. (View Post)

No, but to be even more pedantic they'd call the thing on Hay Bluff a stele - στήλη μονόλιθος in Ancient Greek means 'made of one stone' and Herodotus at least uses it in the sense of … (View Post)

Especially given the contrast between ScotLab and BritLab on the matter. (View Post)

The delay isn't helping in the current context, after Mr Sunak's keynote oration the other week. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/12/ministers-initial-refusal-to-say-frank-hesters… (View Post)

TBF to Nico, the Tories said it was OK after one lot of comments were publicised. And now still OK after another lot. The obvious extrapolation is precisely what Nico is suggesting. (View Post)