All the slavic languages have a rich vocabulary of filth, and the structure of the verbs allows the expression of concepts which are not only physically challenging, but baroque in their intensity. I… (View Post)

Peter the "Great" killed far more people -c 300,000- building the City of St. Petersburg in a swamp. The hypocrisy is faintly comic, and reminds us that the USSR was a formal ally of Nazi G… (View Post)

So, two humourless enemies of American democracy compete to see who is the biggest asshole? (View Post)

Plenty of graffiti in Pompeii and it still took another 400 years for the Roman Empire to fall. I suppose this reactionary silliness shows us that - to paraphrase Clemenceau- you have gone from enfan… (View Post)

Plenty of PR systems do not use lists, so it is quite possible to elect independents. It is also possible, under STV, to distinguish between, say, Jacob Rees Mogg and Ken Clarke while still maintaini… (View Post)