I want to walk round the lake, at least. One of my favourite novels, Austerlitz, is set in part around Bala. (View Post)

Incompetence on a math scale. (View Post)

Off to Bala later today, where it’s supposedly going to drop as low as -8°, though I’m not sure I believe it - meteorologists share the same fetish for pronouncing grim outlooks that some medical pro… (View Post)

A nasty headline even by the standards of The Express. Paired with an equally nasty one on the Mail. So much to pull apart here. The whole 13-years-of-Conservative-government bit, of course, but also… (View Post)

Well, not really no. There isn't really such a thing as a 'Semitic people', especially considering how diverse the Arabic-speaking world is. Lumping people as diverse as Syrians, Berbe… (View Post)