I just worked it out. You are the second prototype and the ninth prototype (Melon-I) became PM of italy (View Post)

He is right. It's the summer months so they have the space to do a proper debate. If he was smart Starmer would do what Michael Howard did: arrange a proper debate between the candidate. That re… (View Post)

That has to be value for "lay", surely? (View Post)

"ODFOD" = Oh do fuck off, dear. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/newbies_corner/4972638-new-to-mumsnet-what-are-the-popular-acronyms (View Post)

Since Biblical times. The sovereign nation-state has to be invented and reinvented constantly. See Ernest Renan’s lecture “What is a Nation?” in 1882. The minute we worked out how to ford a river or … (View Post)