One of the best things I ever did with my daughter was a Lego day that the school did when she was 5. It was a physics teacher who had given up teaching to start a travelling lego club. What he provi… (View Post)

Presumably commissioned and mostly made on the BBC assumption that this was racist police against angelic innocent black man, with just enough awkward backpedalling to give a nod to what the truth tu… (View Post)

A third: "Unfortunately, they just took my phone" - was he hoping more would be stolen? (View Post)

It isn't as big an issue as the world's ageing population, but pb's ageing population worries me. When I started out here I was towards the younger end of the spectrum. Now ... I think… (View Post)

It's (grimly) fascinating, isn't it? No matter what the political and social framework, birth rates are falling massively. In Africa they are still high, but look at most thirty years behin… (View Post)