15yo granddaughter in Spain has been vaccinated. ¡Viva España! (View Post)

Is Latin useful? A colleague once told me he met a group of Polish monks visiting Rome who had their money stolen. Not speaking Italian they sought help from passers by, saying in Latin "non hab… (View Post)

Philip Noel-Baker won silver in the 1,500m and subsequently became Labour MP for Coventry (1929-31), Derby (1936-50) and Derby South (1950-70). (View Post)

BBC presentation of the Olympics is an embarrassment. (View Post)

We live in cloud cuckoo land if we think it's over when we are all vaccinated while the virus lurks in largely unjabbed countries, creating havoc and new variants. It is a global pandemic. (View Post)