Off thread, but I have just bumped into fellow pb-er @ManchesterKurt . Feeling quite pleased with myself for working out who he is in real life from a handful of clues on here. (View Post)

On Rollo: I am a descendent of Rollo. (As of course we all are.) My Dad did some family tree tracing, and got back to some Mancunian bigwig with an unusual name, from where there was a link back to s… (View Post)

What? It's the most important issue right now. And I would take a PM like Starmer who is rubbish at everything donestically but right about Ukraine over a hypothetical one who was right about ev… (View Post)

Eh? Odd view from the Birble there. Rishi Sunak is very English indeed. Certainly no less English than Yousaf is Scottish. (View Post)

FPT: I've always hated telly-as-background. I've lived with people in the past who have come in to the house, put the telly on and paid it no attention whatsoever - sometimes even left the … (View Post)