There are traditional Greenies who are Green because they like conserving things, who are quite sympathetic to conservatism; and there are Conservatives who are NIMBYS who will vote for whoever is mo… (View Post)

Referring to that particular episode is hardly scoring a point of Nick P! It's like 'scoring a point' off Usain Bolt by slyly pointing out he won several Olympic medals and is quite fa… (View Post)

Think bigger still! The North Sea is pretty shallow. Build a dam from Grimsby to Groningen and from Folkestone to Dieppe and create a score of Cambridgeshires. (View Post)

It's quite hard to define a nation except by the rather circular definition of 'a group of people who consider themselves a nation'. But you sort of know one when you see one. And whil… (View Post)

Well, not really. The British Empire was less British than the Ottoman Empire was Turkish, and less British than the French empire was French. Far more use was made of local bigjobs than in other Eur… (View Post)