No, it wasn’t. Rural Essex’s cultural affinities were more with rural Hertfordshire and even rural Middlesex. Of course, as a neighbour of East Anglia you would expect some similarities, but to neigh… (View Post)

Christiane Amanpour on CNN described the UK as a declining power due in part to Brexit. Just thought I’d throw that scrap of meat in. (View Post)

NZ has done very well thanks over the past twenty years and is likely to overtake the UK in average living standards this decade. (View Post)

This is like me telling you that Epping is full of Arabs. (View Post)

The NZ does not define itself “against” Australia in the way you think it does. You know nothing of the subject. (View Post)