The 16th and 17th centuries are examples of how rising standards of education, and the creation of great works of art and literature, can go hand in hand with total barbarism. (View Post)

Hatred for Churchill seems to be common on both the crank right, and the crank left. The crank right think we should have made peace with Hitler. The crank left think Western powers were no better th… (View Post)

Neither sensible centrists, nor radical right, are truly honest with the voters. But then, the voters don't reward honesty. (View Post)

Worse, LREM limps back as largest party, with perhaps 220 seats, and RN are on perhaps 160, making Macron’s predicament worse. (View Post)

It’s similar in a way, to yielding the government to the Liberals, in 1905, believing they would mess it up. (View Post)