Mangione should certainly go to jail. But, Brian Thompson should have gone to jail, too. He was, essentially, practising fraud on his company’s policyholders. (View Post)

A strongman who can’t keep control is, by definition, not a strongman. It was to nobody’s advantage for Assad to remain in place. (View Post)

The thing is, you don’t want the Conservatives to appeal to anybody other than home-owning pensioners. So, they won’t. (View Post)

It’s hard to overstate just how awful was the condition of most of Europe in Summer 1945. Probably worse than Syria, now. (View Post)

A lesson that many of the super-rich seem incapable of learning. The British upper classes of the 19th century were not nice people, but they had the sense to appreciate that things must change, if y… (View Post)