Re; people wanting to think everything is better in Continental Europe, the unfortunate and inescapable reality is that many things currently *are* better, particularly by social and economic metrics… (View Post)

Much of this is right. Much less has changed since 2000. Frasier has been on again regularly in the mornings recently, and its episodes on at the moment are from the late '90s and early '20… (View Post)

Dominic Raab - rugby forward meets estate agent meets party ideologue. (View Post)

Ofcourse it is. The top schools are certain to survive, because they've already turned themselves in to globally-marketed schools for the global super-rich. The only people who will disappear ar… (View Post)

Yogic Flying ! They believed this would raise the cosmic level, and were all basically a well-intentioned bunch of bearded chaps ( and ladies ) as far as I remember them. Also a good antidote to the … (View Post)