It's definitely technology - bad ideas can circulate, and become widespread and accepted far faster now. With little control over where they end up. You see it happen in all corners of the political … (View Post)

I think the thing with Rowling is she stopped caring having decided she'd be damned anyway, whatever she said, having attracted some pretty vicious opprobrium when she tried to talk with nuance. Wort… (View Post)

Yes. The argument was always propaganda claptrap. The real reasons are that Putin and fellow hardline nationalists believe the break up of the USSR should never have happened and think of lots of the… (View Post)

You might enjoy the film 'Runaway Jury'. (View Post)

Yes. There was at one time talk of bringing Russia into NATO. European leaders in particular went out of their way to bring Putin's Russia on board in the early years. London and other European desti… (View Post)