Interesting listening to The Rest is Politics 'things of the year' conversation. Fairly innocuous answers. The one that jumped out at me slightly was Stewart dropping in an anecdote about h… (View Post)

I can tell you a little about Iceland. It was an invasion - ie troops appeared without warning, without diplomacy etc on the side, with a few hundred mainly inexperienced troops, to occupy to foresta… (View Post)

Thanks for the header, @Cyclefree . It's risk and responsibility, isn't it? I hope I can be forgiven a modest Boxing Day rant. An "anybody else but me" culture which tolerates ris… (View Post)

This is my suggested brain teaser for anyone with an hour or so needing to be occupied - a site where you need to remember the names of all the London Tube stations, with no Googling or outside refer… (View Post)

In the Evangelical Constituency, the CEEC is important because aiui it has represented the main cross-evangelical forum in the CofE since the 1960s, and was founded by John Stott - who is probably ev… (View Post)