I think you're both part right. Government is so intrusive and all-pervasive and modern society is so complicated that the former is inevitably involved in a huge number of issues that the Great… (View Post)

He also kept the confidence of the financial markets through austerity in the public sector. But his (and Osborne's) programme of austerity had two big problems. They applied it indiscriminately… (View Post)

It is ironic that Cameron has been appointed Foreign Secretary, since most foreign policy during his time as PM was such a disaster. The egregious ones were Syria, Ukraine (in fairness he was better … (View Post)

It's an incredibly slippery and dangerous slogan because it's so ambiguous about what "free" means. Free of Jews or politically free? It can be used to call from anything from a c… (View Post)

A friend of mine in the Marines told me that in Portsmouth men go to pubs just to pick fights with the off-duty Marines there. Apparently, there's a sub-culture where it's considered cool t… (View Post)