China has been an Empire for ages and Empires do heinous things to enforce Imperial hegemony over their reluctant subjects, as critics of the shorter-lived British Empire are wont to point out (me in… (View Post)

Is good poetry, but not, I would claim, an accurate reflection of reality. Names kinda matter. The Allusionist podcast had an interesting episode about how they chose their name and the importance of… (View Post)

Britain has long had a Supreme Court - it was called the Law Lords, and they were bound up in the House of Lords. You couldn't reform the House of Lords meaningfully without separating the Law L… (View Post)

Ukraine has also directly targeted thermal power plants in Russia and occupied Ukraine. I think they've done so on the same basis that the British used chemical weapons in WWI - the enemy had do… (View Post)

I think the problem here, as cyclefree normally points out, is that the ECHR has adjudicated that you cannot make surgery a condition for people obtaining rights. As a statement in isolation that mak… (View Post)