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Didn't the Roman Empire last nearly 1,500 years in one form or another?

"Berlin is the _least_ German Germany city, by far." Isn't that a common complaint in the lot of countries - people complain about London in the UK in a very similar fashion?

"just need to spread it out sufficiently" Use a crop duster type aircraft - what could go wrong? Edit: Growing up in a fishing village I'm fully aware of the potential for WMD leve…

When I did a CS degree in the 1980s we had one lecturer who handed out copies of hand-written notes but then would talk about stuff that wasn't really in the notes - sort of verbal…

Scotland here - have heard people from London talking about moving here for the weather.. which isn't something I ever expected to hear! Was 10C this morning when I went out to wal…

Same for Scotland - there are 3 castles within 2 km of where I live, not including a couple of really old ruined hill-forts... which I don't think is an unusual density of these th…

I'm pretty sure that if the Argentinians hasn't invaded they would probably have the Falklands by now. As it is it I would think that it would be political suicide for any UK gover…

The Forth Road Bridge stopped having tolls in 2008 and was effectively replaced more recently by a new bridge, the Queensferry Crossing, that has never had tolls.

"Cometh the hour, cometh the bin".

The decision to not go with the development of extremely large thermonuclear weapons might count - the US Sundial Project was supposed to be about 10 gigatons of TNT. Not the most …

The steering wheel on my Scala has 8 buttons, two knobs (which can be clicked), 2 flappy paddles and 3 stalks...

Yeah I once saw a system designed about 2000 or so that pulled messages from an MQ queue and updated a database all within a single transaction managed by COM+. To be honest the di…

I think that is changing though: https://www.business.gov.uk/campaign/employment-changes/

There are about 17,000 heat networks in the UK: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/business/consultancy-and-st... Only about 2% of the total heating used though...

Different legal systems have options for groups organizing to do a join litigation e.g. England and Wales have Group Litigation Orders. I'm not a lawyer and not in England or Wales…

That sounds a bit like the UK concept of a Company Limited by Guarantee - which is used by a lot of charities. Edit: I'm not a lawyer either!

If you buy and off the shelf company then you don't need any of that - they supply a pile of stuff (e.g. articles of association) and you don't need a solicitor to be involved. Edi…

When I co-founded a company in the UK in 1995 there were two £1 shares - one for each founder. Mind you it was an off the shelf company - but the process couldn't really be much si…

Did you mean the 1956 Suez Crisis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis

UK debt to GDP ratio is quite a bit less than that of the US?

A lot of social housing in the UK (about 45%) isn't owned by councils so can't really be sold off by the state?

A rough calculation: £8,580 funding per child at state school, ~90,000 less in private schools and in state schools so about £770 million more required for state school funding and…

Senior leaders in large companies I've worked at always had a fairly high turnover just because they all tend to be hyper competitive and engaged in their own Game of Thrones type …

Reminds me of the scene from Devs: "The box contains us, the box contains everything and inside the box there's another box"