No - quite serious. An example (in the course) - local African involvement in the slave trade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efunroye_Tinubu etc. I started parroting back the slogans etc in the “exer… (View Post)

What we are seeing is culture war applied to everything. I find the arguments strange. But then I try not pick a side. @Foxy and @Roger are struggling with some BadFacts*. Facts which are Bad because… (View Post)

No, it hasn’t always been like this. Some time ago I was reading the House of Lords debate on the adoption of the Lee Enfield rifle. What was striking was the balance of arguments from both sides - “… (View Post)

At UCL, on one occasion, the ballots got slightly screwed up. RON was printed as Ron. Ron won by a huge margin. The process (at the time) was that a new election would be called. All the previous can… (View Post)

The real problem is total sclerosis in the system of the governing class. Which makes change next to impossible. It’s also their utter incompetence and lack of knowledge about what they are doing - -… (View Post)