AFAIK the Parliament in Westminster can reverse any action by the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly and under no circumstances can either of them reject legislation The Welsh Assembly does not legislate it merely replaced the Secretary of State for Wales and his Department In other words it is a more expensive and time consuming device for issuing secondary legislation It s only real purpose as far as I can see is to foster a sense of national identity for the Welsh I m sure the Welsh Office could have seen to that English literature Douglas Adams He was a respected and talented individual without doubt but does he really belong on a list that includes Dickens and Shakespeare Why not He did come second in that best British book thingy 09 51 21 UTC Yes absolutely He was one of our finest modern comedy writers Shakespeare was a fine comedy writer also much better than j k rowling Obtuse Angles I thought that the linking of the terms Anglia and Anglo to the Angles had long been discredited Julius Caesar knew England as Anglia in the first century BC see de Bello Gallico Caesar was six centuries before the Germanic migrations to England Pope Gregory the Great knew the English as Angli Non Angli sed Angeli It is much more likely that all migrants were dubbed Sassenachs Saxons and the term Anglo Saxons describes Saxons living in Anglia Welsh and Gaelic Irish and Scottish and Cornish all have words meaning Saxon but none have words for Angles or Jutes A modern equivalent would be Australo Irish the Irish living in Australia What Caesar used the word Anglia I don t believe it Can you provide chapter and verse please As for Pope Gregory the English had already been settled in Britain for nearly two centuries by then so there is no historical problem Bede of Jarrow AD 673 735 wrote of the Gens Angelorum I don t think he can See C IVLI CAESARIS COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO GALLICO I did a search on all VIII librae for Angli with no hits found Plenty for Britannia though I agree with the above before the Anglo Saxon invaders came to Britain the British Isles were known as Brittania something which can be proved with the fact that there is a Celtic group called the Bretons or Breitzh in their language we have archaeological and documentary evidence that our ancestors the Angles Saxons and jute SETTELERS NOT INVADERS were all seperate groups just go to a large inner city library and read around the subject this fact on its own adds credit to the argument that angles refered to themselves as angles the name was not foisted on them i think that the first person was confused with the creation of England first called Angleand or land of the Angles ceaser may have been referring to a Germanic tribe as the Angles originated in germany and would have had contact with Romans as to the welsh or scots having no name for angles or jutes one germanic setteler will have looked the same as the other and will have spoken very similar languages and the saxons were by far the most numerous settlers a good comparison would be what we believed of africa when we were invading it the tribes are all clearly different but were all grouped under the same durogatory terms and similarly they did not destinguish between europeans Athel Anglia is presumably the Latin word for England but this does not necessarily mean that the word actually existed in the time of the Romans As Latin is still in a sense a living language new entities must require new Latin words to be invented to describe them Hence when England came into existence the term Anglia must have been coined to describe it in Latin Is this correct The term has existed in Latin since at least the time of Tacitus about AD 100 in the form Anglii one of the Germanic tribes who lived along the North Sea or Baltic coast English Identity There are several serious problems with this section which require urgent attention The sentence