So you mean that governments have been spending all your energy on trying to eliminate something they'd have been better off trying to mitigate? Well, there's surely no precedent for that. (View Post)

If you voted for him for SNP leader, you did so in the full knowledge that if he won he would be elected FM immediately thereafter. As I explained to you beforehand and you preposterously denied. (View Post)

The problem with that is that you'd only get MPs who can afford to do it for free. (View Post)

You split it into justification (the first half) and a rule ("the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"). That's what the SCOTUS has done and, we have to as… (View Post)

Urban myth, I think. Wikipedia says The NSPCC was granted its Royal Charter on 28 May 1895 [11 years after founding] by Queen Victoria who became its first Royal Patron. It did not change its title t… (View Post)