I think non EU immigrants do often share our values, despite often obvious visible differences. I get on very well with my recently arrived colleagues from Egypt, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and the Phillipine… (View Post)

Yes, but I think that sum quoted was over several years, albeit somewhat frontloaded. My own Trust ended the last financial year with a £100 million overspend, and we are far from the worst in the co… (View Post)

Well, it was made at the height of the American war in Vietnam. There were even Space Hippies in one episode, and the theme of controlling man's aggression a recurring one. (View Post)

The only Star Trek that I have ever watched was the original series, most of it when it first was broadcast. It's a fairly transparent allegory of US liberal interventionism, and presents an optimist… (View Post)

Didn't Kirk seriously wound the Gorn (though showed mercy and refused to kill) by constructing a gun out of bamboo like plants and home made gunpowder? Therefore not unarmed. (View Post)