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 civilised, … (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 to have bea… (View Post)

That does sound interesting. I may get it for my Kindle. Another good book I read recently was The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam, which argued that the Muslim slave trade … (View Post)

Even assuming the EU wanted to have us back (only to leave again a few years later?), we'd join on very different terms from those on which we were members. We'd have to commit to joining the euro, w… (View Post)