I had an artificial horizon fitted. Works a treat by indicating the exact latitude at which levelling up is required. (View Post)

Back in the day I read a piece in the guardian which recounted approvingly how all the guests walked out of a dinner party after one of them noticed they were being served South African wine. So I gu… (View Post)

There is also the concept of the "cellar defender", drinkable but inexpensive wine bought in bulk to ensure the "something close" is not the Pichon Comtesse Reserve you were savin… (View Post)

Pedantically it was the Crown in Parliament which said that, and it only said that about trading slaves by sea, and the penalty was reduced to life imprisonment in 1837. (View Post)

They were against it before they were for it https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/25/scheme-release-prisoners-early-extended-indefinitely-england-wales (View Post)