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)

Both Jews and Palestinians have legitimate grievances. Melanie Phillips sees the former but not the latter. The October 7th attacks were evil. Very many Palestinians would like to see the Jews driven… (View Post)

Impossible to say. Gabb’s thesis, and it seems plausible to me, is that what brought his government down was the huge cost of suppressing first Boudicca’s revolt, and next the Judaean revolt. Big tax… (View Post)

I’ve just spent a couple of hours listening to Sean Gabb’s lectures on Nero. He concludes that he did murder his brother, mother and wife; castrate Sporus in an attempt to turn him into a woman; and … (View Post)

IMHO, Labour will fall to third place, in polls, this year, and have horrible local, and by, election results. That doesn’t rule out a recovery later on, however. (View Post)