The Madre de Deus appeared at the beginning of David Olusaga's Empire on bbc tv this evening edit: late comment on something earlier (View Post)

All this about who gets the Nobel for peace. My late brother in law got it in 1988 as part of the UN peacekeeping force (View Post)

You don't think people act rationally in the face of new constraints? It's a view .. (View Post)

Well not unlike me as it happens! I used to test for chemical impurities at Farbwerke Hoechst AG in Frankfurt-a-M as a student trainee, burning the material in a Wickbold combustion apparatus consist… (View Post)

Ha! "The BBC does not comment on leaked documents" - BBC R4 (View Post)