No. For two reasons. Firstly, the Commonwealth is not a military alliance. We did nothing when the US invaded Grenada in the 1980s for instance. NATO is a military alliance, but I think NATO treaties… (View Post)

I doubt it. The Americans have powers that are about as separate as practicable, and their legislation is just as poorly drafted and loophole-ridden as ours. A lot of the problem isn't so much t… (View Post)

I think a better solution is Peter the Great's, when he visited London from Russia and saw the swarms of lawyers in the Inns of Court: “Lawyers!” exclaimed Peter, “What is the use of so many? I … (View Post)

Most people grow out of the attention-seeking Twitter trolldom of their adolescence to become productive adults. For some reason Musk seems determined to head decisively in the opposite direction. (View Post)

English schools do reasonably well in the respected PISA rankings, at least since they started teaching kids to read and write properly a few years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_In… (View Post)