The last government had to go. I think many expected a short period of honest and competent government from this one, but it seems they expected too much. WRT the header, I expect plenty in authority… (View Post)

I laughed out loud at his observations that “men will more readily forgive the loss of their parents than the loss of their patrimony”, and that while a prince must certainly profess to be a Christia… (View Post)

West African: Demand nothing less than academic perfection from your child. Any A that does not have a * after it is a source of family humiliation. (View Post)

FPT @rcs1000 I’ve always thought the reason why The Prince got so widely reviled is because Machiavelli held up a mirror to people, who did not like the truth revealed to them. He understood that hum… (View Post)

A significant minority of people in authority enjoy raping people, including children, and a wider body of people in authority consider practising rape to be a quirk or oddity, rather than a crime. (View Post)