Given the history of the police blatent lying to protect their reputation or get others (including Government ministers) into trouble, I wouldn't them as far as I could throw them. Nor would I t… (View Post)

Terrible conflation of arguments there. It is entirely possible to argue - as I have done previusly - that most Trump supporters are voting for him out of a combination of economic malaise and desper… (View Post)

This was Cameron's plan back in 2015. He suggest that EU representatives should go into the camps surrounding Syria (as that was the main source of refgees at the time) and collect those most in… (View Post)

Completely OT... even though the 'T' is one of my favourites on PB in many a year. I managed to get my son's lava lamp working today. We had had trouble getting hold of the filament bu… (View Post)

Me too. I was studying geology in the mid 80s which was only a few years after Desmond's book on rethinking Dinosaurs came out. I did my dissertation on Eldridge and Gould's Punctuated Equi… (View Post)