Incidentally, apropos earlier discussion about French suburbs: Jonathan Meades made a series “On France”, the third episode of which is entitled “Just a Few Debts France Owes to America” https://www.… (View Post)

Not really - I think British architects would have been perfectly well aware of the origins of the term. The problem (imo) is a combination of Brutalist design with Corbusian ideas about how building… (View Post)

Is there some reason those who want trial transcripts can’t be given access to the recordings themselves, from which they can make their own transcripts of the parts they want to read? (View Post)

Ethanol in petrol really is one of those bits of pointless green crap that Cameron actually should have ditched. (View Post)

The difference between male & female players at the top level just comes down to numbers. If you had 10-20x as many women putting in the number of hours of chess study required to reach the top l… (View Post)