Here in the US there is plenty of British language creeping into common parlance. The new MLS team being started here is "Charlotte Football Club". Traffic circles have started to be called… (View Post)

Northern Ireland is an expensive, heavily subsidized province full of sectarian bigots with a tendency towards rioting and violence. The sooner we can get rid of it, the better. (View Post)

Putin is the Kaiser Wilhelm of our time. Autocratic and annexationist. The best way to stop such people is to issue firm lines early and show we mean them. Otherwise their ambitions grow and the desi… (View Post)

I find it hilarious that people use things like museums, theater, universities and music as a reason to live in London. How many hours do you spend each year doing them? The top 5% probably do 2 hour… (View Post)

Local Autonomy can be too local though. Put it down to the sub-city region level and it's too small for politicians to care about economic development and just focus on NIMBY issues. I also think inf… (View Post)