My wife quoted me something today. "Soccer is a gentlemen's game played by hooligans. Rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen. GAA is a hooligan's game played by hooligans.… (View Post)

Maybe I'm too late to comment on the Taylor Swift wedding, but I was musing about the claim that the amount spent on a wedding is inversely correlated with the longevity of the marriage. I think… (View Post)

I would tend to agree, but just to be contrary, if Trump is followed by an anti-Trump there will be a lot of relief from the rest of the world and a willingness to try to forget that Trump ever exist… (View Post)

The most striking polling result to me is the different reaction to Trump's first and second terms. Besides the Covid period - when Trump's manifest failings became all the more obvious - p… (View Post)

This chart, showing Russian oil refinery processing rates, very clearly demonstrates the success of the Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil refineries of the last few months. It's down by a l… (View Post)