FPT If you mixed with the lower orders, you might find a reason why they don’t like huge influxes of Poles, Romanians etc, either. It’s not just racism. As Stuart Rose admitted, at the lower end, it … (View Post)

There was a short TV series, many years back, about a dystopian future, with Europe seeing itself under siege from refugees. At the start, they proclaim they’ve won - high power x-raying of everythin… (View Post)

A progressive idea is that sentences for crimes committed by under 25s should be less, since their brains aren't fully developed. and they aren't fully responsible. I've seen that advo… (View Post)

The reason for the secrecy was that the U.K. was selling rotor ciphers systems to everyone (especially allies). Which we could then read Colossus wasn’t destroyed - a couple of older units were disma… (View Post)

Tankies used to point out that the constitution of the USSR guaranteed all kinds of freedoms. Awesome, eh? (View Post)