Really? I've been quite impressed by how restrained the Ukrainians have been in their attacks on Russian soil.. They've been quite focused on hitting targets that will actually help them in… (View Post)

That's true and yet I chatted to my Irish wife about this earlier and she said something along the lines of, "imagine having so many people who don't like you they you don't know … (View Post)

Well, if we start having different pension ages for the sexes because of different life expectancy then people would argue for different pension ages on the basis of all sorts of factors - postcode, … (View Post)

I think it's generally considered to be particularly difficult to estimate the probability of unlikely events. They do happen from time to time - consider 2017 UKGE, Denmark winning Euro '9… (View Post)

But you could have phased it in. Wouldn't it have been better if Lady Carp's classmates only received one year more than her, and the year before that, two years more than her, etc? It'… (View Post)