Given some of the complete loons he’s nominated, that’s a very good thing. (View Post)

FPT Possibly, but we can't confirm it until we know if Assad was pushed out of the window first. (View Post)

Assad’s fall reminds me of the old adage of how businesses go bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. It would be nice to think something better, like a functioning pluralist democracy, will replace him,… (View Post)

Cathedrals and churches are often funded through state backed systems anyway - the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage, landfill offset. But, and it is an important but, they remain under the con… (View Post)

Time for a trip to Barnard Castle? (View Post)