I volunteer teaching English to refugees and find the Eritreans, Afghans and Sudanese to be the students with the most challenges. They are often not literate in their native languages. The Iranians … (View Post)

Canada, Australia, Japan and South Korea have too much to lose. They will assume the same grovelling posture as the UK: suffer the indignities and adopt a hope based strategy that somehow normal serv… (View Post)

Cole Palmer is the most English looking person that has ever existed. (View Post)

It'd certainly be a lot easier to pay Iran off and give them sanctions relief than any military solution to forcing the strait open. (View Post)

Of course, things go horribly wrong in military aviation all the time. The continued existence of the B-52, which will see off three of its supposed successors in the B-58, B-1B and B-2, is judged to… (View Post)