No, I mean birth rates are declining, not population. That's the phenomenon I find most interesting. I do agree with your point that at a point in time there is a correlation between birth rate … (View Post)

I'm particularly interested in "no one has a single good explanation". That's the aspect that fascinates me. When I learned demographics in GCSE georgraphy, the explanations of ea… (View Post)

I always got the feeling during the Mo Mowlam years that she favoured the hardliners (SF and DUP) over the moderates (SDLP, UUP and Alliance). There is an alternative history to be written of where N… (View Post)

One of the more surreal aspects of my vasectomy was the section on the form which asked whether I was pregnant. (There were actually several surreal aspects: there was the glorious moment when I was … (View Post)

Another pb ringer? I used to do that. Then moved to somewhere without a tower and had children, and rather got out of the habit. (View Post)