O/T, but averaging the most recent poll from eight pollsters gives Labour 25.2%, Reform 24.9%, Conservative 22.4%, Lib Dem 12.5%, Green 8.5%. Baxtered, that gives Labour 264, Conservative 145, Reform… (View Post)

No. It expresses a very unpleasant truth. Ethnic cleansing is a war crime, like the use of starvation against enemy civilians. But, the world frequently turns a blind eye to both. (View Post)

Empires are not all bad, and the end of empires is not all good. For a lot of people, an imperial overlord, however exploitative, who has no dog in the fight, other than collecting taxes and raising … (View Post)

They used their left hand to cut off their right. (View Post)

Once the Mauritians rejected what was on offer ( and which was agreed by the previous government), what downside was there to walking away from negotiations? Criticism from nations that are hostile t… (View Post)