Not really true. Norway in 1938 had a higher GDP/head than the UK. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/o6zp6y/gdp_per_capita_in_europe_preww2/#lightbox In 1960 it was slightly lower than the UK… (View Post)

You'd have to separate Churchill, I think, as he was basically two PMs - wartime where he obviously triumphed, despite having dealt a very difficult hand, and peacetime, where he failed in just about… (View Post)

I think people are much too harsh on Johnson, who had moments of sheer inspiration, as when he delivered the largest democratic vote for anything in British history, and so probably saved democracy h… (View Post)

So the most thriving and dynamic element of British politics isn't there, while a bunch of Hamas sympathisers are? Maybe that shows that Glastonbury is more of an irrelevant relic than anything else?… (View Post)

That reminds me of a lawyer I knew who, though extremely honourable and generous in virtually every way, for some reason stockpiled those foil-wrapped pats of butter you get in restaurants. His fridg… (View Post)