Indeed. And somehow the disadvantages of being a man in, say, 1916 get completely overlooked. It's silly to regard the past with modern eyes. Autres temps, autres moeurs (View Post)

I'm not at all convinced that the 'less so if you were a woman' bit is correct. Although it's a common view nowadays, it seems to me to be based on a huge logical fallacy, namely … (View Post)

Usually youngest to oldest, but it's not a hard and fast rule. In this case I decide to serve them in pairs which I thought would be of similar quality and not too different in age. We started w… (View Post)

I can't see any possibility of the Taliban extending the deadline. Why should they? As it is they are showing the world that the US has surrendered to them, and they can claim, with quite a lot … (View Post)

Presumably those planes are going back to Kabul almost empty. Very inefficient. But if we filled them with Extinction Rebellion protesters, we'd get much lower average CO2 emissions per passenge… (View Post)