Slightly off topic, yet in a way oddly related, this is a fascinating video about the wacky ways that a crazy single-issue campaigner destroyed the political party he set up in Japan. https://www.you… (View Post)

A Brazilian friend of mine who is being messed around about his visa said something very similar recently: "I deal with the government here and wonder why I moved. Then I go back home and rememb… (View Post)

I know it's fashionable to find racism in everything these days, I'm not hearing it in this clip - Trump doesn't refer to her ethnicity in the clip either directly or indirectly. It's tasteless, inac… (View Post)

If the IRA had launched 9,300 rockets in a year into British towns and cities displacing around 1% of our population as Hezbollah has with Israel I doubt we'd have put up with them to the extent that… (View Post)

It can be that. It can also be a hidebound, inept, generalist, complacent, lazy and above all extremely risk-averse government machine refusing to consider new ways of doing things. I worked in gover… (View Post)