It is so depressing. Children are the most incredible gift and the source of almost all joy in the world. There is an upside for the natural world from a lower human population, but it's hard to… (View Post)

Glaswegians have elevated swearing to an art form. I just re-read How Late it Was, How Late, and I remember when it won the Booker in 1994 eyebrows were raised over the prodigious amount of swearing … (View Post)

Nobody in Washington calls Trump a "lorry driver". Lorry is British English. I'd be willing to bet nobody in Washington has called him a truck driver either. A quick Google search of &… (View Post)

US election prediction: Harris 292 Trump 246. Dems House by 5-10 seats. GOP Senate 51-49. (View Post)

I just spent over a week in the US and had a lot of conversations and heard a lot of people speaking about the election. Owing to the field I work in - finance - these were almost all male voices I h… (View Post)