Luckyguy1983

They are plenty clever enough to understand it, but a majority of people here have staked out a political position, and then work out their observations about politics back from that. Rather than the… (View Post)

I can't see them getting across on a dinghy. (View Post)

Yours certainly is. (View Post)

We were never the world hegemon. When Britain was at its height, America was very large and powerful, as was France, as was Russia, as were Prussia/Germany and Austria-Hungary. It was a multi-polar w… (View Post)

... You might want to read into this a bit. I studied the British Empire as part of my undergraduate degree (admittedly a wee while ago) and the industrial revolution was touched on both at A-level a… (View Post)