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There was considerable regional variation. Some towns were immediately abandoned following the Roman exit whereas others (e.g Gloucester) continued to maintain the Roman infrastructure for over a century more until they fell to Saxon conquest. As said previously, the Britons (and later the...

A history thread is a great idea I reckon.

The part about Dummonia (for a while basically Devon and Cornwall then later reduced to just Cornwall which continued to be quasi-independent for a couple more centuries) being known as West Wales is correct. Wales and West Wales both spoke a Brittonic language which slowly separated into two...

That and just how effectively the Anglo Saxons managed to take over. Historians are divided on whether they essentially ethnically cleansed the Britons forcing them into the far west or just took over at the elites level like the Normans with the Britons largely remaining in situ but, either...

Incidentally, it is possible to have great fun with racist types who 'want to keep England for the English" by quizzing them on who they believe the 'English' to be. Almost invariably it ends up with them desperately trying to avoid just saying 'white people' while it becomes increasingly...

Yes but my point is that almost everywhere else in the World (the US being an obvious exception) would take national identity from those Ancient Britons rather than one particular set of invaders. See for example France - the Francs were a Germanic tribe and probably the ancestors of many more...

The English national identity is a very curious one as genetically it is an omelette of Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans (to the extent they are different to Vikings), French Hugenots and many others including from recent immigration. However, aside from in Cornwall, identity is taken from...

The 500AD part is itself twaddle! At that point much of the West of England, including Dummonia, was still in Romano-British hands. The battle of Deorham, circa 100 years later, was a major turning point in that respect as it separated (by land) Wales from the SW peninsular.

While I don't disagree with the content of your post I do disagree with using Trump's "truth bomb" vocabulary as, when he uses it, you can near guarantee it is as 'truthful' as an 'alternate fact'!

I still recall (with nostalgic affection) one of his lines being, during discussion of France maintaining a ban on British beef, "Looking across the House, it would appear that it is not just the cows that have had their spines removed!"

William Hague's quick wit smashed Tony Blair in the vast majority of PMQs but did no discernable benefit for him whatsoever.

If the servants get a bit upperty and start making outrageous remarks like suggesting it might be nice to have Boxing Day off, I find that showing them the true meaning discourages further such insolence:

I am not surprised because if they had attended they would have attracted a load of completely unjustified criticism and abuse from much of their own support base (particularly if Tommy Robinson had not been immediately ejected). Likewise, did any senior members of the Tory party attend any...

One of the first things that Biden did on taking office was to remove the Foreign Terrorist Organisation designation that Trump applied to the Houthis as one of his final acts. That was in response to aid groups saying that the FTO status was seriously complicating getting aid into Yemen. Not an...

Mick Lynch has tankie disease (as do virtually all from the far-left of politics) whereby one of the symptoms is to just randomly shout 'Free Palestine' in the midst of entirely unrelated discussions. His is only a fairly mild case for now and he may make a full-recovery or he may descend...

Don't know whether it is true but if it is then you have to 'admire' the breath-taking hypocrisy of this attempt to satisfy the Supreme Court. Basically, if our Judges don't trust the Rwandan legal system (probably with good reason), the obvious solution is to start running the country...

The Houthis are practically begging to be attacked by Israel but also by the US. Last night they tried to hijack another Israeli owned merchant ship but were thwarted by a boarding party from a USN destroyer (who have detained the would be hijackers). They then fired two ballistic missiles in...

As ye do sow...... Russia spent all last winter trying to freeze Ukraine into submission via attacking energy infrastructure and, although Russia came nowhere near to succeeding, they have been saving up missiles and drones for another 'big push' this winter: The problem they have is that...