Indeed, not an Iona of intelligence between them, barely have their mind in Gigha, and almost certain to Muck things up, come what May. (View Post)

I hope so. Given the centrality of the poor supply of new housing in this country to all our problems, the fact that the government is loading a whole new set of costs on the construction sector in t… (View Post)

Yes, Lincoln is my favourite politician. A truly great man, a far more attractive figure to me than the founding fathers, especially the hypocritical Virginians. When I'm in DC I always try to f… (View Post)

You are defending Haley by saying that she said the war was about secession, when she didn't! You then pulled out this Lincoln Quote from 1862 to argue that the war wasn't about slavery. Th… (View Post)

The point is that the Southern states seceded because they feared that Lincoln's election threatened the status of slavery in the existing slave states, rather than merely threatening the extens… (View Post)