Here's a stray thought: Suppose that Starmer and Reeves suspect that to revive the UK economy, they need to copy some of what more successful American states have been doing in recent decades, for ex… (View Post)

TimS said: "Now it’s all IQ, and bizarrely specific. I mean who the fuck has actually done an IQ test since the age of about 8?" Since 1955, good high school students in the US routinely ha… (View Post)

TSE wrote: "Slavery gets shit done. Best feat in engineering are the Pyramids, all thanks to slave labour." Many archaeologists disagree: "There is a consensus among Egyptologists that… (View Post)

Possibly related: Years ago, I was intrigued by parallel poll findings. In the US, almost all Republicans thought that the United States was a good nation with some faults, while about half of Democr… (View Post)

To continue the point rcs1000 just made: It is entirely possible that no one knows what happened with the COVID origins -- and that we never will know, since the ChiComs won't let us investigate. (An… (View Post)