This may come as a surprise to you, but I'm actually naturally optimistic, and it's my innate optimism which is part of what makes me a lefty, and part of why I'm so relentlessly disap… (View Post)

Depends on how much lower the speed is and it's a bit late for that with HS2, because the route is mapped out now and land bought. You don't want to go and redesign it at this stage. I pres… (View Post)

I think it's been a deliberate campaign from the travel industry to adopt the word and use it to denigrate taking holidays domestically, as opposed to abroad. I hate that the word has been misus… (View Post)

Our Chemistry A-level class was taken to the National Gallery precisely because chemical analysis of pigments and paints can tell you so much about a painting, particularly when time and chemistry ha… (View Post)

It could take a long while to identify the original sin of British politics, the canker at the heart which is rotting it from the inside, but I suspect it's a bit like that thing about when the … (View Post)