That would, of course, invite retaliation, and trade barriers would rapidly mount, with the usual effects. The US can get away with that stuff, just about, but we're both too much dependant on t… (View Post)

I'm almost coming round to the view that we need a spell of the Greens in government to educate the electorate. I'm just not entirely sure that, on top of the economic shocks the country ha… (View Post)

Sure, which is fine. It's just not particularly good history. (View Post)

...The debate over Elagabalus's gender identity is long-standing and often splits academics. Dr Shushma Malik, a Cambridge university classics professor, told the BBC: "The historians we us… (View Post)

Alternatively. "You know who else built a bunker under his ballroom, and planned a massive triumphal arch commemorating himself ?" (View Post)