Spoken French has six distinct registers. Most conversation takes place in registre normal/registre populaire/registre familier. On/nous substitution is very common in registre populaire and registre… (View Post)

Every time we've done air strikes in the Middle East it's always led to the expected and desired outcome so it'll be no different this time. (View Post)

Scottish Independence has gone away for a while as there is no coherent political structure around which it can happen. The SNP totally wasted Johnson and his broad-spectrum despicability the Sturgeo… (View Post)

I enjoyed all the lockdowns. The roads were empty, I had clandestine trips to France which were great larks and I put a new roof on the barn. (View Post)

Well, he could have done it in his 20s when his immense social capital would have got him a plum commission in a Guards regiment or similar. Yet, like a lot of tory chickenhawks, he chose not to... (View Post)