The Royal Navy’s blockade was grinding down Germany’s economy, above all, oil and petroleum imports. It was one of the factors that drove Barbarossa. (View Post)

When you lift up the rock, all you see are seedy little men, (sometimes women), with seedy little minds, scurrying about, and sating their appetites. (View Post)

"Only a shallow person fails to judge by appearances." (View Post)

Reform might be good value, before long. I think that 32-35% is their ceiling in this seat, but who knows if I'm wrong. (View Post)

The behaviour of the 0.1%, whether left or right, royalist or republican, hasn’t changed much, since Ancient Rome. (View Post)