Also, although the relatively recent total dominance of English encourages a sense of English exceptionalism, it's only indirectly due to its originator. It's very much Pax Americana. (View Post)

That is the first genuinely worrying graph I've seen since April. Let's hope the circumstances aren't the same here, as France and Britain do seem to have diverged substantially on thi… (View Post)

Personally I think he's right, in terms of modern lifetimes ; and I'm quite a bit older. I'd rate it as the worst government since Thatcher's scorched-earth, monetarist-laboratory… (View Post)

Only Boris could make Theresa May seem like Churchill. (View Post)

Irony, as they say, with a frequently American and Russian-sourced referendum campaign in social media, quite possibly leading to scottish independence and irish reunification, knows no bounds. (View Post)