https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67088503 Forcing Ecclestone to cough up £653m is a real achievement for HMRC (View Post)

Patrick Maitland narrowly lost its predecessor to Judith Hart in 1959. (View Post)

My own view is that 60 million killings by the Organs of State Security during the Communist period is an enormous exaggeration. One really can't include WWII deaths for example. Timothy Snyder … (View Post)

My bad. It would imply that the British killed off one third to forty per cent of India's population, in just 39 years. (View Post)

It seems to me that a lot of resistance m The Germans persuaded themselves that they were undefeated, and the nationalists sought scapegoats. Germany lost territories in places where the population h… (View Post)