As a follow-on to this, one of the ways in which we've ended up here is that people engaged in debate have presented opinion as truth in an attempt to win public debate by default, and this has … (View Post)

My impression was that Eichmann, at the Wansee conference, was arguably the single individual most responsible. But it was very much in line with Hitlerian ideology. Exterminate the Jews and Slavs an… (View Post)

One thing Boris Johnson did to deal with that issue was to create new non-jobs so that he could give more MPs a post and the sense that they mattered. Hence there was a proliferation of trade envoys … (View Post)

The problem we have is that, in a political debate, the truth only wins if people place a value on the truth as a thing in itself, even when it tells them something they don't like to hear. Othe… (View Post)

I think Russia could destroy the British electricity grid surprisingly quickly if they wanted to. It would create absolute chaos within Britain. The state of British air defences is pretty lacking. (View Post)