The tragedy of all of this is that it is the poorest children in society who will suffer the most permanent damage from the lockdowns in schools. What is scary is that there does not seem to be any s… (View Post)

I think one of the positive things now that Brexit is done and dusted (almost) is that our politicians no longer have the excuse of hiding behind the EU for saying why they can't do things. (View Post)

That was the cat, no? (View Post)

A classic example of this choice is Irish Independence. People favoured political independence even knowing that the a break from the UK would have economic consequences. (View Post)

It was the latter point. Brexit and Irish Independence were indeed not the same thing. Interestingly, though, there is an argument for saying Ireland did not become truly independent until 1979 (when… (View Post)