In addition to all the various other disasters happening concurrently right now, the BBC is spending the day reporting from the Royal Free Hospital in London: an exciting opportunity to see said inst… (View Post)

You'll get no argument from me on that specific point, but that ship has already sailed. The one remote chance that this Government had of scrapping it without self-combusting was at the very outset,… (View Post)

Only briefly, and to no noticeable effect. Newton's main contribution to the nation beyond his scientific career was a lengthy term in charge of the Royal Mint, during which he improved the coinage a… (View Post)

I suppose it rather depends whether there's an infinite capacity for this stuff or the public eventually gets bored of it. Especially after all the principal characters have been re-used about 72 tim… (View Post)

It would be fascinating to know whether this lady, or any similar such personages, have devised proposals to save proper, serious sums of money - or if it's just the usual culture wars guff about cou… (View Post)