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1. The fact they preserve so much of their heritage, in terms of ancient towns and villages. So much of France is impossibly picturesque (though Italy is very similar).  2. The food and wine -...

Yes yes, we heard it all a thousand times, and it's still just rhetoric.  Having competing sovereignty has put Europe at war for a thousand years. We were not even party to most of them. And you...

But hopefully diminish in their pervasive influence...

Or if you are born on the 4/4/2014....  Luckily the Chinese use a different calendar, but even so... My friends daughter was born last year on 20/12/2012 which I think is pretty cool and the last...

A debate is fine, but a vote before a debate is pointless, and weakening the hand of the only person likely to get us to that debate before he's even had a change to negotiate a deal, even...

I once swapped seats on a flight with someone who didn't want to sit in row 13 on an aircraft. Didn't bother me, as one assumes anything that happened to him would happen to me. Except that he had...

Actually it was just short for golliwog, and applied to anyone with dark skin, but eventually loosely used to mean foreigners in general. Can you be racist if you hate everyone equally?

Your centre is somewhere right of Attila the Hun, but carry on making a fool of yourself.

Not seeing a lot of privilege in that relationship, at least for Turkey.

No, it's the other way around. Larger economies are more diverse and need more trade across more areas to survive. Moreover, we already have most of our manufacturing companies working in close...

That's the issue. We are a much larger economy, we are not self-sufficient in energy (like Norway and Iceland) and we can't live on chocolate, velcro, fish and dodgy banks alone.  What is clear to...

The Fuji zoom is in a class of its own where CSC standard zoom lenses are concerned. I don't have any issues using it. It's very good from 18 to 40mm and tails off a little at 55, at least around...

No point in joining a club and making up your own rules. I would be interested to see the rationale. After all, the US applies import tariffs on many goods, including Chinese wind...

No, they are just splitting the existing right wing vote over a single issue.

I use Nikon but I had one of the early K7s and before that a K20 and K10. I still miss the green button - possibly the single most useful feature not found on any other camera - which makes P and M...

Weeell OK, I have an A3+ printer too, have had for a while, and sure results from 16MP are fine. Fine up to A2 if you insist. But it's easy enough to order prints online these days, which I do if I...

I think you have entirely the wrong reason why everyone hates you.

Interesting - sounds like they acknowledge it's a bit of a stretch, but will be interesting to see what happens when more data arrives.

It wasn't a big bang, it was just a loud squawk.

My niece managed 42 on a recent 10 minute bus journey. I made us get of early. She didn't notice at the time, until we had to walk half a mile and she couldn't text. Really p*ssed her off ;-)