My father, who is quite ancient, sent me a link to a news story on this. He commented that nothing has changed since the Athenians gave Socrates a free drink for “Corrupting Youth” (View Post)

I see the government is pushing forward on VPN registration - and talking about banning children from having a VPN account. I foresee a new playground business. Tech Boy selling access to his homebre… (View Post)

The handling of the Scottish referendum stood in stark contrast to the behaviour of the Spanish government over Catalonia. (View Post)

She didn’t even bend the rules. But someone had said it was impossible to get that part of the job done in the time. So she made someone look bad. By doing her job well. (View Post)

The phenomenon you are referring to has been described as War Socialism. That is, in times of national emergency, some simple concepts can hammer through, because of the alignment of everyone working… (View Post)