So does the British government. Alongside the CIA we provided a lot of covert financial and military support to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan during Mrs Thatcher's premiership. In 1987 we even s… (View Post)

I am sure that Britain welcomes refugees fleeing such an awful place. Doesn't it? (View Post)

It looks like the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths, after the Centaurs got drunk at a wedding and kidnapped some young Lapith women. It's one of the themes of the Parthenon marbles in… (View Post)

A friend of mine worked in Port Moresby for a couple of years in the Eighties. It was rather edgy, sufficient to make his next assignment in Johannesburg seem like light relief. (View Post)

Hong Kong was indefensible by 1941 with most of coastal China already occupied by the Japanese. Singapore was different, though lacking in modern aircraft. It was mostly extremely poor generalship on… (View Post)