No, it's to consider realistic counterfactuals. In many cases British rule was simply replacing existing, often more oppressive rule. I don't think the Mughals were cuddly democrats, for ex… (View Post)

Those who attack, or even more bizarrely, are 'ashamed' of, the British empire never seem to get round to telling us what counterfactual they are comparing it with. Presumably not a French,… (View Post)

WTF? They are raving bonkers. In any case, the time to improve ventilation in schools was a year ago. (View Post)

Yes, indeed. Also, that graph is obviously an average; there will be a large number of low-paid people for whom the effect is proportionately larger, and who probably will already have had a tough ti… (View Post)

Oh, I don't blame them particularly. What they did was entirely logical, from their point of view, unlike the Labour and LibDem positions. The SNP want as much chaos, dysfunction, and misgovernm… (View Post)