And just for completeness: Three A*s for my lad and off to Oxford to do Economics and Management. It'll be weird to see him go. (View Post)

People don't fall in love with English; they use English, well, a sort of simplified international variant of English. English is the global language of work and commerce. People love and play in the… (View Post)

And windy. (View Post)

Yes, I used it as one of the clues for a techie Easter egg hunt a couple of years ago. The kids were mildly amused. (View Post)

Our presence in this universe appears to be the result of a long series of lucky circumstances. These include: The fortuitous value of the fine structure constant, which, if it were a little differen… (View Post)