The Māori were extremely good at war. Their forts were as well-designed as anything in contemporary Europe. Which is how they remained a substantial proportion of New Zealand’s population. (View Post)

And, I would agree. All these things were against the law (as Enoch Powell pointed out in 1958). And, there were still people alive in 2013 who had suffered those abuses. That’s very different to com… (View Post)

Starmer, during his short term in office, has proved himself to be a very weak man. Not only will he not defend his country's own interests, he probably doesn't even think he ought to defen… (View Post)

The vast majority of their victims were Kenyans, which is why the Kenyans banned the organisation for forty years after independence. (View Post)

Howard Jacobson was right, that Edward Said managed to turn perpetual grievance into an academic discipline. (View Post)