The mention of Basic brings a particular personal animus/resentment; as a wee lad me dad brought home a second-hand Acorn Electron and a stack of Electron User mags. I gamely tried to teach myself Ba… (View Post)

The utter abdication of the idea of Britain as global player and retreat into bizarre pothole parochialism is such a long way from where the Conservative Party ought to be. An underrated aspect of Bl… (View Post)

On topic - as a long-time lurker turned regular poster, all the very best to OGH. (View Post)

It's how democracy dies. (View Post)

From my limited experience as a parent, a CoG and spouse of a teacher, that's really not true at all. But yeah, I'm sure the timing of this is entirely about the effective implementation of… (View Post)