But a PhD is.

I'm staying out of all 'policy decisions' as the longest standing member and viewed by some as Richards right hand man, I feel it is best. I will say Mr Hincapie voices a concern all intelligent people will have. It doesn't concern me, and I'm very intelligent. The surest way to get a ban from any ...

Simon Winder's trilogy of books about European history ('Germania', 'Danubia' and 'Lotharingia') are excellent (and very funny at times). They illustrate over and over again how often history is a result of cock-up rather than conspiracy.

Woke up this morning, found myself in bed.

Woke up this morning, with hair like Brian May.

I have not figured out what it actually is. It's a re-clocker, which means it actually turns back time, so that you can enjoy music as if you heard it just after it was released, whether that was last week or fifty years ago. It can be problematic if the music was re-mastered or otherwise mucked ab...

'The Glass Cell' by Patricia Highsmith, a psychological thriller, which I read (almost in one sitting) whilst on holiday, and 'Smallbone Deceased' by Michael Gilbert, a traditional British whodunnit, which I also read on holiday (it rains a lot in the Lake District).

TroutFisher wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:49 pm
Interesting that these days, morality seems to be redefined as bigotry..

What moral issues are raised by two blokes (or two women) dancing together?

Did you fact-check any of that, or are you willing to take it all on trust? Joe, I knew some of that before and others who know more than I have confirmed other parts of it. There was a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the Brussells negotiators (I forget the program, but it was on i-Player for age...

I'd like to post this quote, which I think at the beginning paragraphs at least, sums up many people's views and then goes on - 'I have realised that the Remainers have been right all along when they say I did not know all the true facts before voting to leave, and it's true! We WERE lied to appare...