That’s misleading and something of a myth: lots of languages have no specific future tense: Chinese and Bahasa Indonesia are notable for having very few tenses. As indeed does English: please show me… (View Post)
If you’ve paid at least three years’ of NI from working in the UK you can carry on paying voluntary Class 2 NICs after you’ve left. It’s about £3 a week, an absolute bargain. (View Post)
There is a Speaker pro tem of the House that acts like the British Deputy Speakers, i.e. only presides if the Speaker is unavailable. So Trump could just hand over the boring bits to them. But I agre… (View Post)
IIRC I don't think the red triangle was for run-of-the-mill filth, which could be found quite easily late at night in the 70s and early 80s on BBC2 and ITV so long as the films were foreign (I recall… (View Post)