There's actually one other modern functioning language descended that way - Tsakonian Greek, a local dialect in Southern Greece from Doric Greek, but only a few thousand people in the Peloponnes… (View Post)

I very much hope Starmer turns out to be more leftwing than he appears to be. On the other hand, I think the charitable status policy, like the assisted places ban policy before it, is vacuous gestur… (View Post)

The sadly inescapable fact , for the Britsh right , is that the Thatcherite model of industrial investment and workplace relations is failing, and the German collaborative model with unions and corpo… (View Post)

;.) I certainly did enjoy my private education, but I know many others who didn't. My children went to the same grammar, which also has its own issues. From my point of view I would just prefer … (View Post)

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)