Republics are overrated. Constitutional monarchies are much better. (View Post)

Nor is intelligence any guarantee of judgement. In fact, from my experience, they are uncorrelated. And people who are themselves intelligent in their area of expertise often have an entirely unjusti… (View Post)

Forget the Scotland/Northern Ireland Bridge. We should build another London Bridge like the pre-1762 one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge#/media/File:Claude_de_Jongh_-_View_of_London_Brid… (View Post)

Yes. The slogan is adopted, mindlessly, from the US, where the conditions are very different. It tells you much more about American cultural dominance than it does about English realities. (View Post)

The police are heavily armed and aggressive because a small minority of the public are likewise. For every situation that gets out of control there are dozens which are resolved without any violence,… (View Post)