The Common Market of 1975 was a very different animal from the EC of 2016. The meaning of 'ever closer union' became starkly clear in the meantime not to mention the idea of an 'acquis… (View Post)

Sweden given the go-ahead by Türkiye to join NATO is big news here in Finland. Can't see anything about it in our main press (View Post)

This is better than the topic of the thread header. I'll run with it. It so happens that I was born on the same day as Sir Mick J and it's our 80th birthday in just over a fortnight's … (View Post)

As 13 year-olds in 1956 on our first school exchange with a French school we found "petards" for sale which you just struck against a match box and threw for the laughs. One boy had a numbe… (View Post)

So this whole thread was on topic - about irresistible forces and immovable objects (View Post)