Support for the death penalty usually rises, once some heinous crime gets reported. Letby deserves to be put to death, but bring back hanging, and you run into all kinds of practical difficulties. Th… (View Post)

Skim-reading the Brattle Report, there is a strange absence of any claim against African successor states of the various slave-raiding kingdoms and emirates. (View Post)

The net wealth of the UK is £10.7 trn. These hucksters think that every household in the country should be fined twice what they own because of what some people did hundreds of years ago. There is , … (View Post)

I think it unlikely, although the truth about the prevalence of child sex abuse, and the willingness of people in authority to turn a blind eye to it, is already sufficiently disturbing. (View Post)

But a far higher proportion of the working age population is in work, in 2023 than in 2010. So, real median household income is 11% higher in 2023 than in 2010.… (View Post)