And you’ve still got some evolutionary catching up to do, down there in the West Country? (View Post)

High up in the prealps, they speak, or used to, a language called Cimbrian, of which I have not heard. I believe it’s nearly gone the way of Cornish, and is an Italian-influenced Germanic language, a… (View Post)

The latest Mandleson release appears to have revealed everything about the disputes and dysfunction within government, which is starting to look almost as bad as we suffered under the Tories, and alm… (View Post)

The latest theory is that the purpose of dreams is to keep the bit of the brain that processes visual images busy, because the brain is remarkably quick at starting to reallocate unused neural connec… (View Post)

Those involved in politics sometimes are too close to it and get wound up with the detail. The LibDems put a lot of effort into turning the fees into less of a loan and more like a graduate tax, fail… (View Post)