The great things about trains is that - unlike planes - you can get on and off them at interim stations. So a Leeds-Paris service (for example), in a proper HS2 & Schengen world, would still stop… (View Post)

He'll stick his head in the sand and claim (presumably in a muffled kind of way) that it's all our fault because [who knows - empire, slavery, wibble]. And it will happen again if we don't draw a lin… (View Post)

She'll lose. (View Post)

It needs to be put on the table. Same with Hungary. At the moment, both are benefiting from a correct assumption that they can play silly, deal with the enemy and be appeased with concessions. Hungar… (View Post)

I treat the division a bit like Christmas. It might have Christian roots but it's sufficiently embedded in secular life that it's moved beyond that. And CE/BCE suffers from being both a bit meaningle… (View Post)