Or a similar point about the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Commissioned in 2015, started taking evidence in 2020. We're in 2024 and there are only five tranches out of six to go. Expenditure so far in… (View Post)

Ease of articulation has been a factor in the evolution of both the pronunciation and the grammar of many languages, including English and including in how it arrived at how you speak it now, which m… (View Post)

If Starmer had some cojones, he'd also say even if the person was a member of the royal family who took millions in cash in paper bags from Qatar. That'd get him in the headlines all right. (And if a… (View Post)

Musk is talking about long-term evolution (in the past) and how humans got bigger brains than chimpanzees despite us both supposedly evolving from a common ancestor only a few million years ago. He's… (View Post)

Sunak's suggestion that he'll probably call the election in Jul-Dec rather than Feb-Jun shouldn't be given much weight. If he said he'd probably hold it in the first half of the year and then come Ma… (View Post)