"Potential change in control/management of a company worries employees" is hardly news. Change and uncertainty are always sources of worry. (View Post)

Yes, I know. The point is that the dog's name in English has an extra layer of wordplay not present in the French. (View Post)

I think it's more that the English translator for Asterix (Anthea Bell) was very very good. Translating pun-heavy humour is really difficult, and you often have to be quite free with it, sometim… (View Post)

Interesting to see that when there's a top-end spike it's usually not the richest 5% but the cohort below them, the 90-95th%s... As of 2020 that's about the 58-80K pre-tax income brack… (View Post)

On the Russo-Japanese war, In Our Time did an episode on that last year -- their reading list may be worth mining for suitable books. And don't miss the pdf of Japanese woodblock prints of event… (View Post)