Sigh. They did not keep their Saxon names, because they were Britons fighting the Saxons! (View Post)

NB. On the Matter of Britain: I recently enjoyed reading Rosemary Sutcliffe’s retelling of the Arthurian legends “Sword at Sunset”. The book is a realist telling of events that might have inspired th… (View Post)

FPT: @Foxy Just replying to this late (was out at the opera last night) because I think it needs highlighting. In the linked Unherd article the QC sample was reported by the lab shortly after the Let… (View Post)

Fairly sure that there’s legislation the government can use to take over Thames Water as a going concern for exactly this reason. They don’t want to use it because then the government would be on the… (View Post)

Quite. The NHS seems quite happy to employ foreign doctors instead of ones expensively trained in the UK for impenetrable reasons that presumably make sense to them. Even when those foreign doctors c… (View Post)