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)

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)