Yup, the leaded petrol story looks quite convincing. I wonder too whether the long shadow of two world wars had an impact on how people interacted with each other, with people desensitised to violenc… (View Post)

Indeed, depressingly few southern whites seemed to recognise that slavery and racism was part of the same class warfare that kept them oppressed. Still seems to work on a lot of people. Sad! (View Post)

When I was at primary school a kid brought a detonator to school that he'd 'found' on the railway tracks. We had great fun chucking bricks at it in the back lane after school before it… (View Post)

Indeed, not an Iona of intelligence between them, barely have their mind in Gigha, and almost certain to Muck things up, come what May. (View Post)

I hope so. Given the centrality of the poor supply of new housing in this country to all our problems, the fact that the government is loading a whole new set of costs on the construction sector in t… (View Post)