He asked: “Is there anything objectionable per se if you are locking yourself to somebody and closing down the M25? “It might strike people as objectionable, that’s criminalised.” https://www.thesun.… (View Post)

I think it is because back in the day they were branded as Oriental in the same way as all blacks were branded a Negros, treated pretty horrifically, and the US for obvious reasons is extremely touch… (View Post)

Hang over from colonial times and more recently the internment of Japanese during WWII is a big scar. US was also very racist towards Asian people in the 20th Century and despite historically much la… (View Post)

Turing took that experience and designed new early computers, and during 50/60s things like the transputer were way ahead of their time and it was poor decisions in the 70/80s that took UK backwards … (View Post)

Naively I would think the period after the war (for the winner) is the maximum opportunity for the gains, you have built up capabilities and skills through necessity of the war, you are still going t… (View Post)