When 14 million people in the UK do not have even a half way decent internet access it is not waste of time at all. Only selfish fanatics like you who don't care about anyone worse off than them… (View Post)

Because it is a genuinely stupid, self defeating thing they are doing. If you want to reach net zero then deal with consumption. Change the way people use energy. Ending drilling for oil and gas in t… (View Post)

Worth ading though that this process of both de-industrialisation and abandonment of industrial agriculture starts well before the end of the Roman period in Britain. It was already underway by the t… (View Post)

Again there is masses of archaeological evidence for the Viking military assault which doesn't exist for the earlier Saxon migrations. Villages and farmsteads being burnt down leaves a very clea… (View Post)

I think that is an excellent hypothesis. It makes more sense than the purist views which dominated for most of the 20th century and which some on here still seem to cling to :) (View Post)