OK. The temptation to emerge from my lair proves too great. I must say, helping Delboy out is insufficient reason (haven't the English spent the last 600 years selflessly protecting the Welsh from harm at great expense to the English taxpayer? And are they grateful????), but any man south of the...

In Britain, the History A-level (for non-UK people, that's the specialised exam in history which you can opt to take at age 18) is to be scrapped. The subject is, apparently, too difficult and too irrelevant. http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2838652.ece A shame -- history is the one...

In Britain, the History A-level (for non-UK people, that's the specialised exam in history which you can opt to take at age 18) is to be scrapped. The subject is, apparently, too difficult and too irrelevant. http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2838652.ece A shame -- history is the one...

I know from the deluge of emails I received in the spring how much our Welsh readers appreciate my immediate response to England-Wales rugby fixtures. What can I say, boys? Normal service has been resumed .