Yes, look how all the ex-mining areas were rock-solid for Labour, before gradually drifting away. That actually resulted in brilliant voting efficiency last year, but it also makes such seats very vu… (View Post)

Nobody should be bailed out because they've made a bad business/investment decision. (View Post)

There is merit in Gray’s critique of “hyper- liberalism”, which is not real liberalism, but a system which has lost complete touch with reality. Nobody, starting from scratch, would devise a system w… (View Post)

On the face of it, that ruling seems bizarre. A group of terrorists, armed to the teeth, attempt to commit murder, and it is deemed *wrong* to open fire on them. The Coroner is essentially condoning … (View Post)

My tutor, Professor Matthias Strohn, told me that if anything, WWI military authorities were more sympathetic towards military personnel suffering combat stress, than their WWII counterparts. Patton … (View Post)