I can remember Michael Wood’s programme about Eric Bloodaxe, which went into the links between vikings, and the various Islamic States at the time. The vikings sold them slaves on a massive scale, an… (View Post)

There likely would be a considerable amount of international support for rewriting such treaties. The UK is certainly no outlier. But doing so would take hard work, as opposed to ineffectual ranting,… (View Post)

None. They would not be paying it anyway. (View Post)

The Conservatives' biggest problem for 33 years is that its MPs have mostly hated each other, and don't actually seem to have a function other than to pursue vendettas. Given that all gover… (View Post)

I doubt if they *mostly* went there. Certainly not the boneheads of the NCB, mentioned in the header. More, the problem is unwillingness to take responsibility. When something goes wrong, the officia… (View Post)