Most parents want the local (state) school to be good enough. This should be achievable, but might involve spending more money. There's always going to be parents who want to buy their children … (View Post)

Not quite sure what your point is. - Of course they are different, hardly any countries are the same. You may as well say Britain no longer exists (as it was then). - I don't think Sunil or anyo… (View Post)

The Polish map is interesting, though it conveniently ignores the Austro-Hungarian bit, which makes me a bit suspicious. The suggestion in the same article that differences between the 2 banks of the… (View Post)

But in support of Leon the Polish side of Usedom seemed noticeably scruffier and poorer than the German side when I visited 4 years ago, and that was definitely once Prussian! (View Post)

Why wouldn't the French especially? It's not clear that the UK would be such a big net contributor - if the UK does much worse than the EU economically over the next 15 years then a hypothe… (View Post)