This thread has quieted down because a deluge of information has come to light (and Larkin explained he'd be absent). Here's where I'm landing as I try to make sense of what's going on in this country: Things are very far from normal. Sometimes conspiracies are real, so on the balance of evidence t...

Would Irish Alison be in that brawl and would she be throwing punches? As far as I can tell, she believes in witches, so I guess that puts her in the anti camp. You are wrong about the bigger picture: I don't think any country's politics in the anglo-phone world are broken. We're like Professor Jone...

He said he was going to drain the swamp and the swamp has yet to eat him alive, despite all the growls, mysterious splashes, hisses, thrashings, hoop-hoop-hoops, flares of natural gas, crab eyes and snake lips winking at him in the mangrove mud. I don’t fancy his chances but he is still out there in...

In other words, maybe, perhaps a few sentences filling in the background for the ill-informed (no names) might be a goodish idea. Fine. Research and write them. No you won't gain world domination that way. Every thread should be introduced with a summary of issues, penned by those who are in the kn...

Two things: 1. Wales' laptop has a couple of greasy spots - on the touch pad and the space bar. 2. Is the 'special moment in our history' a personal luv-a-thon between these two guys or is it aiming at a wider entity, like Mankind, or some sub-species of that fauna? In other words, maybe, perhaps a ...