Given that all but one of the nine dentists at my local practice are of non-British heritage, I have my doubts that cutting immigration is the way to deal with the lack of dentists. (View Post)

YouTube science populariser Sabine Hossenfelder has just put out a new video expressing her new-found pessimism about climate change. Her style is a matter of taste, but she's normally a pretty level… (View Post)

My lad probably has lockdown to thank for his place at Oxford. When his GCSEs were cancelled, he devoted his time instead to learning all about cryptocurrencies and decentralised finance, which evolv… (View Post)

According to this, from 2018: https://www.statista.com/chart/12492/who-russians-consider-their-greatest-enemies/ we weren't hated by the Russians as much as the Americans (obviously) and the erstwhil… (View Post)

We're planning on taking a family holiday to Japan in the autumn, to see a friend of mine who has lived there for ages. With this in mind, I'm happily learning the rudiments of Japanese using the Duo… (View Post)