I would have warned against Carthage, but Carthage was already destroyed in 146BC (according to your barbarous calender) which was 40 years before I was born. It was M.P. Cato the Elder, great grandf… (View Post)

It was more like the Russian Revolution, with the vote itself being the analogue to the February Revolution, followed by the Hard Brexiters effeectively staging a coup to overthrow any potential comp… (View Post)

Quite, "Imperial purple makes the best burial sheet" and a couple of years in the job does not make him the kind of transformational Prime Minister that he aspires to be. Also it misses the… (View Post)

Rank Amateurs. Estonian has nine vowel phonemes, represented by the letters i ü u e ö õ o ä a, these can all be short, long or overlong, so essentially 27 vowel sounds. It does make the language very… (View Post)

Blimey, for once I actually agree with HYFUD. By elections are not predictive of a whole lot, though FWIW I think the Tories will still struggle to win Hartlepool. Even if they were to win there and … (View Post)