Lent comes from the same root as lengthen. So it already commemorates the fact the days are getting longer. In fact it was the Anglo-Saxon word for Spring. (View Post)

I think only very early Nazis were actual socialists. They soon started to purge people who took that part of the name seriously (View Post)

I still think it would be a better model for the EU constitution than the current one (View Post)

I'm surprised Hugo Boss haven't sued over intellectual property rights. (View Post)

Maybe we need the modern equivalent of sumptuary laws. A tax on Range Rovers and other high value desirable items (View Post)