Did he have anything to say about the US? Waterloo was only three years after the British burned down the White House. (View Post)

I thought that at the time the English system was for the Witan to decide, and so whether one person had a stronger claim by right of descent makes no difference. (View Post)

Naughty, but funny. (View Post)

I find it hard to believe that there aren't a whole series of marginal gains that could be made to increase the throughput of cases through the system. One thing that seems to happen quite often… (View Post)

It's an interesting counterfactual. On the one hand the centuries of conflict with France (that followed from the Duke of Normandy becoming King of England) bled the country dry, and diverted at… (View Post)