That is not "just a little short of the highest in Europe". It's 57% in France, with other European countries above 44% including Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Italy, L… (View Post)

I won the Russian language prize at school one year. (View Post)

It's hardly the only situation where's a danger of policy becoming focused on manipulating an arbitrary statistic! How much of the immigration debate, or tax policy, or spending policies, or policing… (View Post)

I don’t agree with this proposal, but the idea that we wouldn’t be a “free” country…? Germany doesn’t have jury trials. Is Germany not a free country? Ditto the Netherlands. France only has jury tria… (View Post)

Curaçao has a smaller population than most London boroughs. It's about the same as the population of Kingston upon Thames. (View Post)