The BBC's weather forecasts have been weirdly shit for about 2 years. Often I have been struck by the difference between the BBC forecast and the Met Office forecast. It is very rare that the fo… (View Post)

Blame autocorrect! I turned mine off - the frequent fat finger errors which result make me cringe far less than autocorrect's more-frequent-than-you-would-expect erroneous 'corrections'… (View Post)

You can tell the Americans are in charge when operations have daftly heroic names. I prefer the British names which mean absolutely nothing e.g. Operation Market Garden. (View Post)

Conversation at primary school door this morning from normally apolitical friend: "we [the school] has gone from less than 5% English as a foreign language to around 25%. You wouldn't think… (View Post)

Indeed. The human advantages of big brain and bipedalism come at a cost of very tricky and painful birth - resulting in a lot of lost children and mothers, relative to other mammals - and children bo… (View Post)