Also not so long, then, since IHT dwas used to replace Capital Transfer Tax, which was the correct name for the phenomenon. It was Thatcher and her Tories who whittled away at CTT and renamed it IHT … (View Post)

You coiuld be thinking of the local variety of RP, aka Scottish Standard English. There is plenty of urban demotic Scots in Lothian, different from the variety over in the West, which some people mig… (View Post)

Slightly bizarre day on PB when it's dinosaurs that are the set topic and boat people are what some folk have drifted off to in the Friday pre-prandial chat ... (View Post)

Some of my favourite animals in my zoology course! And very important zonal fossils in S Scotland and so on. (View Post)

I read Bakker's original article in Sc ientific American when I was still at school ... (View Post)