There's long been a discussion about why the industrial revolution occurred mostly in Britain, rather than (say) France, which in many ways in a better position to be the crucible of modern indu… (View Post)

Doesn't history show that likely candidates often do not get the job? My own little piece of Kremlinology on this: Putin owns this war. He cannot back down, even if he wanted, but he is the only… (View Post)

That depends on how you define transgender, and trans in general. At the last census, 0.5% described themselves as transgender. The government estimates 200,000-500,000 https://assets.publishing.serv… (View Post)

Many sports do not encourage women at the lower levels. As an example, motorsport. Women *should* be able to compete fairly equally with men, especially with modern cars. Yet there are zero F1 driver… (View Post)

Triathlon now has 'open' and 'female' categories. Loads of women will still beat me tomorrow, though, despite my masculine awesomeness... :) (View Post)