I know it shouldn't let it, but it really irritates me. An ellipsis (or other three dotty thing) has three dots. Three. And use them sparingly. They aren't sentence connectors. (View Post)

I assume we've already done Motty, but I must admit to a rare tear in my eye when I read his obituary. Partly because he seemed a genuinely decent man. And partly because the passing of that gen… (View Post)

Switzerland, I reckon. (View Post)

Well this is the interesting question. We all seem to be agreed that a country doesn't need to take 100 years to go from poor to rich - about 20-40 will do. (A generation. Or three Scottish gene… (View Post)

I don't think Alanbrooke is wrong. What ROI shows is that a poor nation can, over time, become a rich one. (It took ROI 100 years. But I'm not suggesting it would necessarily take Wales or … (View Post)