Will take some time to fully digest but thank you Cyclefree for an excellent piece. The rape trial figure seems astonishing. (View Post)

Hard to believe that I started posting on here in 2007 as a young adult and as of tomorrow I'll be de facto middle-aged. (View Post)

I'll take that as sincere. I'm not English so I'm a little reluctant to claim expertise. (View Post)

I'm not sure I understand this. The English don't seem to focus hugely on their Englishness from what I've seen. It's a very old country with a centralised state. Italy and Germany had much more hist… (View Post)

I suspect that would be the end of the Union. Most likely Germany in the eurozone on steroids. The trouble with 'Home Rule' is people never spell out exactly what it means. It refers to Ireland at a … (View Post)