In Bill Bryson's "Neither here nor there" he talks of an apparently blissful evening as a youth in an Alpine bar, along with some German friends he had made who were fortunately able t… (View Post)

I saw this today. It made me sad. It turns out to be a story which is 18 years old but I think it still has currency. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-gene… (View Post)

'Afternoon pb. I've had an amazingly busy bank holiday weekend. I have any amount of anecdata to regale you with, but I can't actually be bothered - just rest assured it backs up whate… (View Post)

Well, because what people object to isn't Indian doctors and engineers in my nice middle class suburb boosting the numbers at the cricket club, their kids making grammar schoos more dificult to … (View Post)

With the odd exception, I don't think immigration from the commonwealth is a problem. Immigration from India is very visible in my part of the world, but it isn't really a problem: these ar… (View Post)