My plan for retirement (I'm many decades away) is to self-fund a long winded History PhD. It's going to be the most bloated and self-indulgent thesis that was ever written - a high bar, but I am ambi… (View Post)

If you talk to Invernesians about people from the far north, they would whole-heartedly agree. There's nothing you can say about the people from Caithness that is beyond the pale for Highlanders. Whe… (View Post)

I dunno, they remind me of right-wing Weimar politicians bigging up the Kaiser after the First World War. Various would-be chancellors talked up their monarchist credentials but, when it actually cam… (View Post)

It's my cat's birthday today (or so we were told by the people we got him from), much more fun than Valentine's. (View Post)

The problem is that the economy, in current form, requires immigration (indeed, I'm of the opinion that immigration brings many benefits, though they may require some work to realise them). People mi… (View Post)