My impression is that 5/6th century Britain was like the world of Mad Max. Both Anglo-Saxon, and Roman-British warlords, vying for supremacy. (View Post)

The Vikings, and the Norman’s’ Harrying of the North, OTOH, were every bit as brutal as monkish chroniclers claimed. (View Post)

I don’t think we have a choice. We cannot trust that intelligence is not being fed to the Kremlin. (View Post)

Bill Morris did a report on sentencing some years ago. He found that black defendants were much less likely to plead guilty than white defendants. That resulted in stiffer sentences. (View Post)

And also to note that “ethnic minorities” are not a monolith. Some groups have rates of incarceration that are below that of the white population, some above. (View Post)