Today's Rawnsley, late because of the Christmas Agility Competition here on the island: At some cost to both personal dignity and domestic popularity, Sir Keir has kept what some people still in… (View Post)

The challenge for any political organisation that experiences a rapid influx of new members is to identify and nurture those very small number among them who might go on to devote a huge amount of th… (View Post)

Thanks for the link. Here’s an article setting out the thesis that Middle English derived from the dialect spoken in the East Midlands, within the Danelaw, not Wessex-ian Old English and hence has co… (View Post)

Some linguists believe that (middle) English derived at core from Old Norse rather than Old English. Some of the evidence is there in Carnyx’s examples - English adopts the Scandinavian word order ra… (View Post)

For what she's asking as the base price, you'd expect more than merely access to a member's bar and the opportunity to mingle with lots of other loons We can get the latter on here, fo… (View Post)