I have an Alexa Show on my desk in my study. It plays a constant stream of photos from my life over the past fifteen years or so (since camera phones became a thing). It shows lots of happy events al… (View Post)

Nah,I think he chose them just because they are the only two senior people in the British Establishment who don't make him look like the 4 foot pixie that he is. (View Post)

Anecdotally, I sense Brits are now properly scared. Masks are universal on London transport (if you can spot any passengers). Maskless people in supermarkets are a rarity, and get hard stares. Pubs a… (View Post)

There's a whole tourist industry based around tiger watching - and it's a highly lucrative industry in otherwise poor areas of India. So that's not really true (View Post)

That looks extremely grisly and repellent to modern eyes, but the painful fact is that this was received opinion amongst the educated (and maybe uneducated) classes right across Europe, at that time.… (View Post)