There are about 900,000 horses in Britain. The internet suggests there were about 3.3 million horses in Britain in 1900. It's often said that cars replaced horses for transportation (and similar… (View Post)

Yes. In the early 2000s there were articles complaining that Brown was paying back too much debt, and there wasn't enough government bonds to go around. Much more innocent times. (View Post)

We don't know yet why Casino thinks people are idiots. He might be complaining at the relatively low scores across the board for parties being on the side of the establishment. (View Post)

I haven't seen the figures, but I've read that a lot of it is held by Russian banks. One of the reasons that the yields on Russian bonds have been increasing recently is that Russian banks … (View Post)

It's another thing that makes mobilisation more likely. With a mobilisation they won't have to spend vast amounts of money on the inducements to sign contracts. (View Post)