One of the features of football as a team sport is that it is very low-scoring. This means that there is a greater chance of the underdog winning, because in a higher scoring game random factors, or … (View Post)

If I'd paid my mortgage off (and so didn't need to worry about remortgaging at the end of my fix) I'd like to think I wouldn't care what its value was. I've no interest in se… (View Post)

Russians in Crimea are reassuring each other on social media that humanitarian aid is on the way. It's just delayed due to fuel shortages. As soon as the fuel situation is resolved the humanitar… (View Post)

It's just one of the symptoms of Britain's housing crisis. Any old shit houses will sell, because people are desperate. So the builders build shit houses. (View Post)

Kinda makes the point that Ukraine != Russia given the famine in Ukraine in the 30s. A bit like with one historian who used 19th century England as an example of democracy putting an end to famine. (View Post)