I wonder how this fits in with religious views, where many want a burial to occur within a day of death? (Having recently gone through this with Islam, the burial within a day or two of death is too … (View Post)

Chaos. And that's never good. We're facing massive threats from Russia and China, and we need the civilised world to pull together to combat them. Instead, Trump is splitting America from i… (View Post)

I'm unsure why someone who had to resign twice for personal dodginess is still seen as a viable political figure. (One time for getting an interest-free mortgage loan from someone his department… (View Post)

I'm just thinking how forward-thinking the DLR was for any British government. It was an example of building the transport infrastructure *before* the development it was designed to serve really… (View Post)

This discussion of Spanish Flu and globalisation covers an important point: Diseases can now travel around the world very quickly, as we saw in 2020. This means we need governments and NGOs to be rea… (View Post)