Our local library has a very popular thing, in the week day time, of story telling and sing-alongs for kids. The chap doing it rather resembled Michael Palin. This was then chopped on the grounds of … (View Post)

FPT If you mixed with the lower orders, you might find a reason why they don’t like huge influxes of Poles, Romanians etc, either. It’s not just racism. As Stuart Rose admitted, at the lower end, it … (View Post)

There was a short TV series, many years back, about a dystopian future, with Europe seeing itself under siege from refugees. At the start, they proclaim they’ve won - high power x-raying of everythin… (View Post)

A progressive idea is that sentences for crimes committed by under 25s should be less, since their brains aren't fully developed. and they aren't fully responsible. I've seen that advo… (View Post)

The reason for the secrecy was that the U.K. was selling rotor ciphers systems to everyone (especially allies). Which we could then read Colossus wasn’t destroyed - a couple of older units were disma… (View Post)