Didn't France declare war the same day as us in 1939? In any case WW2 was 2 years old in China by then. (View Post)

I have a Sudanes colleague. Her extended family have nearly all left Khartoum for relative safety elsewhere, mostly internally displaced. She says their is no ideological or religious doctrine separa… (View Post)

Indeed, the lessons learnt from the blockade of Germany (which continued until mid 1919, causing many deaths and bitterness) were why we took a different approach to Germany, Austria and Japan post W… (View Post)

Isn't it because of the horrors of the 2 world wars that we banned mass reprisals, carpet bombing of civilians and starvation as weapons of war? (View Post)

Gaza is a big thing for young voters. It was a major part of why neither of my boys would vote Labour last year. Too late for Starmer to get them onside. As ever he does too little too late. (View Post)