Yes, I enjoy new film and series, but there is a lot to be said for revisiting the series and films of previous decades. They tell us lots about the times they were made, as well as the times they we… (View Post)

Such people could be free of taxes, but would also be outlaws, who could be killed with impunity. (View Post)

For example much defence spending is wasted. Soldiers trained and equipped for wars that never come, over engineered pointy nosed jets that drop bombs on peasants no better than a WW1 biplane could, … (View Post)

Government spending is much like Medicine, or political punditry for that matter. Half of it is probably pointless, but no one knows which half. (View Post)

South Korea was a pretty repressive dictatorship well into the Eighties. I have Korean friend in his sixties who remembers the secret police arrests and torture of his fellow students rather too well… (View Post)