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)

Brilliant, thanks sir. Funnily enough my favourite fossil is a rather obscure Palaeozoic group of beasties called Graptolites. We used to draw them on boulders in mid Wales to confuse our lecturers o… (View Post)