You can ruin any subject by being taught it. It's why I have long had a jaded view of education, despite being in the education business. I love history, geography, film and literature mostly be… (View Post)

It's the opposite. It was almost impossible to convince management that they had a killer nurse. Indeed the whistleblowing doctors were forced to apologise to Letby. (View Post)

I think Zhou Enlai was misinterpreted in his famous 1971 quote. He understood the question to be about the events of 1968 in France rather than 1789. (View Post)

There were lots of policy changes passed by the EU parliament, and the council of ministers was also democratic representatives of democratic governments, albeit indirectly appointed like ministers i… (View Post)

Interesting thread on UK tax. I was a bit surprised by some of the charts like this one: 🧵 NEW: Is Britain really a high tax country? Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the… (View Post)