The Trump government is belligerent, stupid, but actually ineffectual in advancing the Right. (View Post)

Russia tends to airbrush the role of Soviet non-Russians, in WWII. (View Post)

The lesson of the 1920's is that our system can only really sustain two big parties. A three or four party system only lasts until a party asserts its dominance over their rival on right or left… (View Post)

I think not all slave owners/investors were evil, (but many were - men who raped and tormented slaves), but the system they participated in was evil. And, that evil was recognised by quite a lot of p… (View Post)

Rates of mortality fell sharply in the nineteenth century. Birthrates also declined, but more slowly, so the population exploded, even with mass migration. The UK (and increasingly, the rest of Europ… (View Post)