To a great extent the charity boxes are just solutions for what people can do with the small change they get from other transactions. (No way am I spending half an hour filling bags with precise numb… (View Post)

It is still cheaper for small-value stuff where you don't have to insure thousands of pounds of floating cash at a time. Other countries have "solved" this, though, with cheap small-va… (View Post)

The problem is when people conflate the last two. We know a bit about what literate folk thought at the time. For example, we know that language and religion were considered to separate different peo… (View Post)

Oh, for sure. The seeds of a new identity likely began as soon as Germanic-speakers found themselves amid Britons and a few straggler Latin speakers. But I was focused on the "REALLY English&quo… (View Post)

Well, we had prominent Communist Party of GB members advising SAGE and endorsing maximal lockdown. (View Post)