Given that the USA is quite big, why don't people just live further away from trees? Looking at wiki, that part of the world has regular burns, and of course that part of the world has regular b… (View Post)

I remember the year the Wall came down. Heady. Now we seem to be back into the years of imperial hegemony, cynical and unforgiving. (View Post)

Makes sense to me. Calling for a cabinet minister to resign just because they have done something you disagree with is pretty asinine. Politicians should stop doing it. And the problem with saying wh… (View Post)

I already pay that, it's called council tax (View Post)

Because the Government needs to raise taxes to pay for public services. If you tax income, such as salaries or self-employed income, why should you not tax other forms of income, especially as they t… (View Post)