It's hard to picture the Labour voter who is going to abandon them because they have only now come to the conclusion that Peter Mandelson is a shifty knave. (View Post)

Agreed: I'd also add: 1) Some studies have suggested that the east of Great Britain has been Germanic in language and genetics for rather longer than that even. 2) While pre-Viking Anglo-Saxons … (View Post)

I had thought of doing a Monte Carlo @Flatlander. That's what I did with the Monty Hall problem. The problem though is I don't think we all agree what the coding would be! We all agree, I t… (View Post)

My understanding is also that the wealth of the Qatari gasfields gets directed to some incredibly hardline anti-western Islamic groups in Europe. Although it apparently also goes to fund the growth o… (View Post)

He isn't the toxic monarch I expected. I'm not sure I'd have used the phrase "a bit of a shit and a bit of an idiot" but it certainly wasn't obvious before he took over … (View Post)