The more you learn the easier it becomes. The UK fails to teach languages until high school, other countries often start in kindergarten. I was very lucky to be exposed to other languages very young,… (View Post)

I think you are quite right about the American colonization of the UK data space, which is unlikely to end well for the UK. Perhaps more concerning is that it is not a party political problem- the To… (View Post)

Bright Northern Lights in Tallinn tonight. (View Post)

Polish GDP is half as big again as Sweden's... No plans to get rid of the Zloty. (View Post)

I stopped reading the HP books after about the third one, because by that time Jo Rowling was allowed to more or less dispense with any kind of editor and the books were turning into overblown bricks… (View Post)