It’s quite arguable that the Empire held back development of both the U.K. and the colonies. See the rocket like takeoff of GDP post Empire. (View Post)

4chan don’t need to do anything. There is explicit US law denying the ability to pursue in the US courts for such foreign judgements. (View Post)

The bit that was crazy was that they wanted to impose vast fines on individuals/newspapers in the US for “libel” It doesn’t take a genius to imagine that if that had gone ahead, every country would s… (View Post)

For those who didn’t know - years back, a certain U.K. law firm (and some fellow firms) started selling “libel tourism”. That is, anything published on the web is visible in the U.K. So under this bi… (View Post)

But @kinabalu has informed me that the government has decent intentions and “wouldn’t do this, trust me”. So there’s no problem there. So they want a Senatus consultum ultimum? What could possibly go… (View Post)