Greater London is a city of villages. You might be part of a big city, but your quality of life stems from the good stuff which is on your doorstep. There are any number of nice hubs around which to … (View Post)

Last April, a lefty friend of mine expressed some outrage that Ukraine had been preventing men leaving in order to run an army, but allowing women to do so. 'Not very 2020s', she said, rath… (View Post)

Not just on the extreme right. I rather thought that a military whose main aim was to win wars, from a culture who weren't really that bothered about how it did so, would have an edge over a mil… (View Post)

This sounds horribly stupid, but my preferred means of discovering new music (aside from the radio - no, actually including the radio) is youtube. They may bombard you with adverts but for me the alg… (View Post)

Really?! If I'm not missing sarcasm here, that's the strangest thing I've heard on here for months. I did like minidisc. Tape, only better. For a brief window, they did their job bette… (View Post)