Unfortunately I fear that the peoples of what increasingly looks like "the former" UK are not going to enjoy finding out a whole lot more about "the lessons of history" than they … (View Post)

Quite: The Tories will face obliteration. We talk about the thirty or forty years it would take for Scotland to recover, but at least with a clear path back to the EU, there would be a direction to g… (View Post)

Meanwhile in the US... Trump and the GOP really do seem to be heading towards the shellacking of the century. The number of Republican stalwarts, from Cindy McCain to the daughter of the increasingly… (View Post)

Eh what planet of delusion do you live on? Even if we go down the GDP per capita data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita We see that 11 EU membe… (View Post)

Plenty of Monarchs were elected, either as founders of a dynasty, like Michael Romanov or the elected Kings of Poland after 1573, or- for long periods- the Holy Roman Empire. To be honest, after the … (View Post)