Presumably they think the UK government is desperate to offload the Chagos before Trump gets in and can be pressured into an even worse deal. Who knows, maybe they're right. (View Post)

We are further from Get Into The Groove than Get Into The Groove was from Perry Como's "Some Enchanted Evening". (View Post)

That's a better example. I have an argument I wheel out now and again about how culture hasn't really moved on much in the last 40 years. Today doesn't really look much different to th… (View Post)

None of that is incompatible with much lower immigration. It does however imply some redistribution in how various groups in society do. Particularly at the expense of comfortably off over 50s. But i… (View Post)

No, but I'm talking about the whole century. Thr gunpowder plot was an attempt to replace a Protestant nascent constitutional monarchy with Catholic absolutism. Absolutism is important since the… (View Post)