Odd thing is that radical feminist Mrs Thatcher, sfaict from this handy Wikipedia list of her ministers, appointed only two women to her Cabinets in her eleven years as Prime Minister, and both of th… (View Post)

Michael Oatley, intelligence officer with a flair for building secret contacts with the IRA He first met with Republicans in the dangerous climate of the 1970s, against all odds, and this earned him … (View Post)

Trouble is, if left to victims, there'd not be many let out at all, ever. Best to rely on the trusted old formula:- 1. increase sentences to assuage headline writers 2. not realise this means th… (View Post)

The BBC and Channel 4 are not state security or law enforcement agencies, even if they do often appear to be a damn sight more effective than those who are. (View Post)

Not quite. Remember for glorious millennia there was no Germany. There were German people speaking German in German states, but the unification into one country called Germany (or Deutschland in Germ… (View Post)