Unquestioning support of whatever the Israeli government does, regardless of the civilian casualties in Gaza, has become an article of faith to some here, not something susceptible to reasoned discus… (View Post)

Oh no no, what alarmist nonsense! People like Alanbrooke have a far more accurate understand of complex nonlinear systems than anyone to be found in a university, and they just know that whatever hap… (View Post)

Hint to those seeking the Moral High Ground over Foreigners: Don't open by saying you're concerned about the effect that saving the world will have on your bank balance. (View Post)

How bizarre to think that a shift of 1% is real, let alone to try to attribute it to any particular cause. (View Post)

Wikipedia reminded me of another 19th-century Black Briton who most people will have heard of but without knowing he was black or even a real person - the circus owner Pablo Fanque. (View Post)