As I keep saying - 1) Merge employee NI And IT 2) Protect the basic rate pensioners. Only those on 50K+ will pay more tax initially. 3) Put all the old age benefits in a blender, and make the result … (View Post)

Various people pushing "it wasn't the bomb, it was The Russians/The Emperor staying/The Japanese Just gave up" narratives have got into a lot of the secondary histories. The reason for… (View Post)

Incidentally, when the Japanese were running out of everything at the end of WWII. Including cities… they tried “negotiating a surrender”. Thing like asking the Russians for an alliance (this was jus… (View Post)

At the war cabinet meeting after Nagasaki, they considered the fact that - the Americans had sunk pretty much the whole navy - The Americans had sunk pretty much all the merchant ships. - The allies … (View Post)

The “negotiations” included such gems as - Japan would not be occupied - The Japanese military would remain - The conquests wouldn’t be given up - The Japanese offered the Russians to team up to figh… (View Post)