They did all that because we twice threatened to invade (Plan W) if they didn't cooperate. On the only thing we really needed, use of the Treaty Ports to stop our ships being sunk in the Atlanti… (View Post)

I am generally a big fan of the legacy of Empire, but we really should have ended the bizarre and anomalous status of Irish citizens in this country when we left the EU. Either they should have taken… (View Post)

It will of course cause decades of depression for them and for the economy as a whole, but they will be on benefits so prime voting fodder for Labour, the party of welfare scroungers. Same with the f… (View Post)

As usual the news is mostly doom and gloom so here's a story of survival against ridiculous odds I heard yesterday. In 1972 a Yugoslav Airlines flight flight was bombed by Croat nationalists. Th… (View Post)

The 2m unemployed is the tip of the iceberg - there are around 10m working age adults on benefits, including about 4.5m on health-related benefits, up by 2m since the pandemic. So basically the 34m w… (View Post)