The French fought hard in 1870 - just were over matched. See the Siege of Paris, and the many executions of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francs-tireurs Fashoda was part of the pivot towards a UK… (View Post)

The Comintern line in 1940 was that the war with Germany was a Capitalist war and that The Workers should obstruct/avoid it. Remember that the USSR had just signed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M… (View Post)

Who is going to deliver and build the "low cost housing:"? The only people with the build capacity, in the short term are... drum roll... big developers. So if Burnham wants social housing,… (View Post)

That's a bingo. Especially in light of Burnham wanting to get a move on with housing. The resistance to turning an ex-private school site into housing might well be less, locally. (View Post)

First of all - it wasn't started by the Americans. They tried to pick it up and kinda mucked it up. Secondly - it's the French. Therefore perfectly justified. Thirdly - They are just as rud… (View Post)