My grandparents retired to Mallorca and had a rather predictable group of British "expat" friends. Diaspora thinking mostly consisted of "Britain's gone to the dogs, barely recogn… (View Post)

Tory efforts at gerrymandering are getting farcical. First they try to stop people who actually live here and pay taxes from voting over entirely imaginary risks of fraud, and then they open the way … (View Post)

I visited Ayodhya in 1994. At that time, even by the contemporary standards of Uttar Pradesh, it was a bit of a shit hole. (View Post)

AIUI at least half the casualties are children, and around half of the adults are women, so I'm guessing at least 75% weren't Hamas fighters. With so many women and kids killed too it would… (View Post)

Is this the Finnish rumour? (View Post)