Cars stopped cities from being choked in horseshit, with all the accompanying disease. If you want to know why armies fell victim to disease so readily in the past, it was due to having to march thro… (View Post)

When I worked up in Yorkshire, there certainly were professional people who chose Leeds, Sheffield, and their environs, in preference to London, because their money simply went so much further. Most … (View Post)

Holding power matters far more than keeping a territory successful, to the leaders of the CCP. You could place these people in charge of Switzerland, and they'd turn it into a cesspit, so long a… (View Post)

I'd say more Sir John Hawkwood's White Company, or the other free companies of the 14th to 16th centuries. I don't think they have any interest in government. (View Post)

You almost make me wish to vote Labour. (View Post)