Perhaps, but Russia have been pretty good at concentrating casualties among peripheral populations, and coercing immigrants to die for them. The result is that Russia in the decades ahead will have a… (View Post)

It could be, or it could be a simpler psychological failing. PB was discussing Chomsky recently, at the time of his phantom death. He opposed the US war in Vietnam, which you can see as a principled … (View Post)

I think Leon goes too far with some of his joke comments, and I think such jokes, especially about posters children, are in poor taste. It's the sort of joke that us amateurs should leave to the… (View Post)

You still have a few minutes to think better of that comment. (View Post)

He said he was taking his daughter for a picnic in the Chilterns earlier today, so I'm hoping that he's busy spending the evening with her in a comfortable pub now too. Not every PB.com pos… (View Post)