A sovereign Bengal here is ahistorical, since the East India Company merely supplanted Mughal suzerainty. I agree with your last sentence but again, it is not the hard claim of “deliberate destructio… (View Post)

Memo to Britain. Spend some fucking money on capital investment. It seems baked into the DNA that it is better to employ a bunch of serfs cheaply. (View Post)

Exactly this. Conversely, it is almost impossible to cancel a Times subscription. (View Post)

🤡 We need more frontline workers in the NHS! 🤡 (View Post)

Someone needs to invent a “faffometer”. How much faff, or conversely, how little faff, is involved in everyday tasks? Faff is a pain. It degrades quality of life. Faff seems to multiply in more dense… (View Post)