Budapest does have the advantage of having been completely rebuilt after WW2. Behind all those fancy 18th century facades in Leopold Town it is all breeze block. (View Post)

LOL. Lady Godiva was from Mercia. Maybe she wants to use her as her role model. JRM probably thinks these Saxon invaders are a bit too modern for his liking. Things haven't been the same since A… (View Post)

Both Patel and Braverman have a massive authoritarian streak and are not afraid to go way beyond what is either necessary or decent to get their way. Neither of them deserve to be anywhere near power… (View Post)

I have your coat here... (View Post)

More than anything she recognised that in a globalised world the UK had no chance at all of competing with the low labour cost economies, mostly in Asia. Her transformation of the UK economy was time… (View Post)