Europe learnt everything it knew from the Arabs in the later middle ages: irrigation, mathematics, astronomy, navigation, medicine, philosophy, universities, distilled spirits, sweets, ice cream, sof… (View Post)

I repeated the joke but I think I got away with it. (View Post)

History never repeats itself, but historians do all the time. (View Post)

Eurovision seems to come round quicker each year, and get longer each time. (View Post)

Remarkable way the Sun presents that story. If you don't go past the front page you would understand Lammy refused to pay his taxi fare and called the driver racist names. You have to turn to pa… (View Post)