Stansted Mountfitchet castle is a great place to go with kids; it is right outside the station's car park. AFAIR it *is* the site of a Norman motte and bailey; but the castle itself was wooden a… (View Post)

Decades ago, a distant relative was a spokesperson for a utility company. She was invited onto the BBC for an interview about a certain topic. Instead they ignored the thing they asked her on about, … (View Post)

You are wrong. Trump Derangement Syndrome makes someone who pretends to care about Ukraine shill for Trump and the GOP whose words and actions have already killed many Ukrainians, and might well kill… (View Post)

I very much doubt that'l be the case. My WAG is that it'll be a Swiss-cheese incident: lots of safety systems and human processes meant to prevent such an incident all failing in minor ways… (View Post)

Or, more likely, it's because JFK Jr is a conspiracy-theorist little shit who has already cost many lives with his false claims about medicine? You know, stuff that *matters*? (View Post)