So, a total of 45 percent favor one of the three candidates. What about the remaining 55 percent? Even among SNP supporters, the total is only 47 percent. That doesn't suggest much enthusiasm fo… (View Post)

According to accounts I've read, "Czar" Putin is a student of history (though perhaps not a top student). Yet he somehow missed this fact from Russian history: Russia is better off whe… (View Post)

I have two copies of the Penguin Atlas of Recent History, by Colin McEvedy. Why two? Because in the 1982 version, McEvedy said: "What had been greeted as peace quickly changed into an era of �… (View Post)

The controversy over Begum, discussed here, is part of a general confusion over whether attacks by radical Islamists should be treated as part of a war, to be prosecuted under Western war rules, or a… (View Post)

Let me extend what Morris_Dancer said. I agree that if you have compulsory voting (something I am not in favor of), you should definitely have a write-in choice on the ballot. But I would go further … (View Post)