Forty years ago, that would have been a much better idea. But given we can't seem to get a decent government of our own these days, I'm not sure we'd be any better at running India tha… (View Post)

On topic, everybody dies from something. If we increase survival rates for diabetes and lung cancer, the survivors may well die of something even more expensive a few years later, and will probably n… (View Post)

Basically, the article only reaches its conclusion by adding made-up estimates of the numbers who might not have been caught when enforcement was less stringent. As I say, the numbers aren't com… (View Post)

Russia lost ... but was spared by the British who had worn down German air power in the Battle of Britain, and were forcing them to keep three dozen divisions in Western Europe and several more in No… (View Post)

France's democratic credentials are rather questionable given the power of the Presidency, designed as it was by de Gaulle for de Gaulle. See how Macron was just able to ram a bitterly unpopular… (View Post)