The results of the last six House elections have been highly proportionate to nationwide vote share. 2012 was the last House election that the Republicans won, despite finishing slightly behind the D… (View Post)

The poll lead was real. At the start of the campaign, the Conservatives won a huge victory in the local elections. Then, everything began to fall apart, as the Conservatives ran an atrocious campaign… (View Post)

Over a million British and Imperial soldiers were earmarked for the invasion, along with the British Pacific Fleet (the largest navy we ever assembled). It's usually overlooked that the Royal Na… (View Post)

And every day the war continued, more POW's in Japanese camps died, too. (View Post)

It's curious that there should be such differing responses to the strategic bombing, and the use of atomic weapons. Personally, I'm with Sir Arthur Harris, on this: The Nazis entered this w… (View Post)