My own view is that had we kept wide swathes of the economy nationalised, retained exchange controls, kept subsidising coal, ship, and car production, retained the closed shop, secondary picketing, a… (View Post)

A q You have to dance with the one who brung ya. The SNP have spent years pitching themselves as the most left wing of the Scottish parties, and they’ve built up a big following on that basis. They d… (View Post)

Axis soldiers, among their many atrocities, raped millions of Soviet women. For the Red Army, in Eastern Germany, it was payback time. That said, Polish women were also raped, and indeed women in the… (View Post)

Do you think “the nation” was bothered, one way or the other? (View Post)

Rape in war is much harder to explain away than killing is. Killing of civilians can always be an accident/collateral damage/overreaction etc. Rape, on the other hand, is deliberately callous, and in… (View Post)