If there was ever such a time, it’s before I was born. (View Post)

I think it's a minor problem (but minor could matter in a very close election) for both the Democrats and Labour. If you think that Western nations are the Great Satan, you see Israel as last wh… (View Post)

It can be like banging one's head off a brick wall, explaining to people that the pre-industrial world was not at all a nice place to live in, unless you were a king, sultan, raja, or great nobl… (View Post)

The telling statistic is that when I was born, in 1967, 55% of the world lived in absolute poverty (itself, a big improvement on 100 years previously). Now, the proportion is 8%. (View Post)

It's peculiar. For all of the world's horrors, by any objective measure, there has actually never been a better time to be alive. But, what proportion of the world's population believe… (View Post)