@MattW Bernard Cornwell was raised as a Peculiar Person. He did not much like the sect. (View Post)

As against which, real per capita income was 43% higher in 1997 than in 1979; rates of home ownership rose strongly; and millions of new jobs were created to replace those in dying (and extremely unh… (View Post)

I don't think there's a rich world economy in which industrial output, as a share of overall GDP, and industrial employment, as a share of overall employment, has not declined markedly, sin… (View Post)

Most teachers do not. Where such attitudes prevail, it is in certain university departments. 41% of the youngest age cohort being proud of their country does not seem terrible to me. Most of the rest… (View Post)

What is in a name? Rome had a Princeps, a Dominus, an Imperator, a Basileus, but never a Rex, after 510 bc. But, it was still a monarchy. (View Post)