I had to look this up, but it seems estimable and inestimable are a rare example of the positive and negative meaning much the same thing. A bit like flammable and inflammable*. Inestimable is techni… (View Post)

Luckily it missed his brain by several feet (to recycle an old joke from, I think, Not the Nine O'clock News) (View Post)

It's tried to ban it for terrorism. Violence is not necessarily terrorism, and having Hamas sympathies is not yet a crime. (View Post)

Er slavery came to Puerto Rico both the local Taino and subsafaran Africans were enslaved up to that date of 1873. It was under the Spanish rather than Yankee empire tbough (View Post)

You are ignoring tactical voting. In a real election people would vote for a party other than the one they prefer, to block Reform. In Fishguard on Tuesday both Tories and Labour were crushed, with t… (View Post)