A property which generates a rent of 8-9,000 euros a month is likely worth a couple of million euros. So, it's entirely possible that her family has the money to pay for the house in Clacton. (View Post)

The issue is that Rayner broke the law, however inadvertently. You can say it’s a stupid law, and I’d agree, but them’s the breaks. (View Post)

So far as I can tell, to most people alive back then, the Gods were as real as members of their own families. Hence, the bit in the Acts of the Apostles where Paul and Barnabas were mistaken for Apol… (View Post)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0DQPY6B2D?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_2&storeType=ebooks O/T, but an e-book I contributed to is now on Amazon. (View Post)

Gibbon is a brilliant writer, often hilariously funny, but his view, that the best time to have been alive was the Second Century, would have been absurd in the late thirteenth century, let alone the… (View Post)