Both main parties in Ireland have been monumentally useless over housing, but people in Ireland are still furious about the issue. I wonder whether in Britain it has been tied up with the immigration… (View Post)

ICE seem to operate on the principle of arrest people first, lie second, try not to ask questions ever. It's entirely plausible that they received a tip-off about foreigners working at the facto… (View Post)

I'll go for mistake. But it's the reaction to someone pointing out the mistake that is revealing and important. People make mistakes all the time. One of the main advantages of a democracy … (View Post)

The more flags the merrier. (View Post)

No. A more mundane reason to do with binary truncation. There are some good arguments for moving to a base 12 system, but it would make a lot of computer arithmetic simpler if we used a base 16 numbe… (View Post)