The Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be a fairly simplistic black-and-white good-vs-evil thing to me. One side has started a war of conquest, and is carrying out rape, torture and genocide to ach… (View Post)

By November 1918 the German spring draft was spent. The Americans had just turned up with unlimited numbers of 18 year olds. War is sometimes just a brutal question of how many people you have availa… (View Post)

In which case, a rescue should be done that involves the shareholders being wiped out and the executives fired for gross misconduct (View Post)

What is the problem with banks failing? If they are not allied to fail, they should not be allowed to make profit. Profit is the reward for risk. (View Post)

Bloody hell, she's 50 (View Post)