He also kept the confidence of the financial markets through austerity in the public sector. But his (and Osborne's) programme of austerity had two big problems. They applied it indiscriminately… (View Post)

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 c… (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 t… (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)