We can start a fight about whether it wasn't about late antiquity if you like. (View Post)

True dat. This is what population genetics overwhelmingly shows. People stay put. (View Post)

The easy and obvious discriminator is, what language people spoke. Hybrid names like "Anglo Saxon" are a modern thing anyway, I can't think of any paralleles in Latin or Old English. Gaelic… (View Post)

The Telegraph War on Inheritance Tax continues apace. A theory: they are trying to push rishi towards abolishing it as a desperate last-ditch election winner either now (and dare Lab to reinstate it)… (View Post)

No brief for water cos but to be scrupulously fair to them looking at one winter does not give a full picture. You really need to look back to last time reservoirs were at 100% and see what has happe… (View Post)