Fishing

He's 83 now. At the next election he will be 87. In a country that is supposed to be even more youth-obsessed than ours. If he's a hope it's a frail one. (View Post)

Indeed, and there were people, even in the late 19th century, that did not regard the white race as inherently superior. You can generally find unconventional opinions if you look hard enough. But I … (View Post)

More certainly was unpleasant to our modern sensibilities. An unpleasant bigot and a royal sycophant. But given when and where he was born, anything else would have been truly astonishing. The notion… (View Post)

That is why Presidential systems are much worse than Parliamentary ones. Under the former, it is virtually impossible for a President to be evicted during his term. You basically elect an eighteenth … (View Post)

It is a good speech, though of course the real Thomas More was happy with rigging the legal system to burn people who had slightly different views on trans issues. (Transsubstantiation in this case). (View Post)