Agreed on both points, although I suspect population decline would have been relatively modest. It's in the last 15 years or so that fertility has dropped to more worrying levels. (View Post)

It's like when you go to a corporate away day and each table has to make up its own team name. (View Post)

Why? It's on a sheltered wide and accessible river estuary facing the continent, and good for trade. It's a logical choice. Far more so than, say, Bristol or Newcastle. (View Post)

Yes, I know your wife uses them to get to work. You've said it eighteen times already on this thread. (View Post)

Trains are cleaner, nicer, more efficient, more serene, more sophisticated, and have more riding flexibility, as you can change carriage, use the toilet, walk up and down etc. I don't live in Lo… (View Post)