Catch 22 is set in WW2 but really about 1950's America with it's military industrial complex. Heller stated as much in interviews. So bombing their own airbase is prescient rather than absu… (View Post)

That would be the icing on the cake, and there is precedent of former PMs becoming FS, albeit not quite so quickly. (View Post)

Really? I thought there was another cause of the booms in Dubai. (View Post)

Burnham hasn't done tax and spend in Manchester, but has been nearly universally recognised as a good mayor. Can he do the same trick as PM? Maybe so. Certainly he has much better communication.… (View Post)

A Biblical endorsement of gambling surely... (View Post)