No history before 1603? No Reformation? No Romans, Vikings or Normans? None of the early European voyages of discovery? No Black Death, Magna Carta or Crusades? No Spanish Armada, Hundred Years War o… (View Post)

The problem with teaching history is that there's always more history to teach. For one thing there's always more history being created - when my grandad was taught history, "history&q… (View Post)

Scientists loved the known unknowns/unknown unknowns formulation and would use it regularly. That the Press didn't get it is an indicator that the failures of the media over Covid were not new. (View Post)

The problem is though, that his simply existing as the other candidate in the system breaks the system, even if he doesn't win. Because, as you say, any right-thinking believer in Democracy must… (View Post)

That's madness. You think that's how Cameron managed to get re-elected in 2015, simply by having results to show at the end of five years? He only managed to scrape a narrow majority becaus… (View Post)