In this context I think "Life Threatening" means sufficiently severe to be admitted to hospital. "Critical" means in intensive care. (View Post)

Which just demonstrates how useless the sort of speculation we see after these incidents is. Unless there is a suspect still at large, it seems to me sensible of the Police to confirm details before … (View Post)

Is there any evidence that random violence, or indeed any violence is more common than decades ago? It certainly was quite dangerous to be on the streets in the Eightis at pub kicking out time. Of co… (View Post)

Quite how many undocumented migrants we have is unclear, as there are no official figures and by their vey nature undocumented migrants avoid contact with officialdom, but realistic estimates are aro… (View Post)

Short wars are won by existing weapons, but longer wars are won by industrial production*. These don't have to be the best design. No one would claim the Sherman was a better tank than the Panth… (View Post)