The Three Hundreds of Chiltern. Lovely part of the world - we were visiting our daughter there last weekend. And great archaic parliamentary procedure for an MP's resignation, almost designed to… (View Post)

I had a friend (actually my thesis supervisor) who lived in a flat above a private garage in Park Lane where he benefitted from the owner centrally heating the downstairs garage for his Rolls Royce. (View Post)

"The poll found that 27 percent of voters felt entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy won the debate last week, but it did not immediately translate to an increase in his support, which dropped from 10 pe… (View Post)

Actually he is 80, like me. He was born 20/11/1942 (View Post)

English is the de facto lingua franca of European leaders. Less so for the hoi poloi (View Post)