On a different issue have you ever read Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Approaches Its very interesting about 1930s Samarkand and Bokhara. (View Post)

You think the poor are starving ? Obesity is highest among the poor. Grotty takeaways abound in deprived areas. Talk to a school dinner lady about how much free food is given to the poor and you'll b… (View Post)

I disagree. There is far too much emphasis on 'protecting the poor' at the expense of the average person. Its often said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. Well they're wrong,… (View Post)

There's lots of evidence and every factory manager would be able to give it. Do you really think that those on the sick, the layabouts, the early retired, the unskilled, the useless want to work on a… (View Post)

We should have had proper austerity on welfare and consumer spending and increased capital investment on infrastructure and housing. Instead the borrowed money has gone on foreign holidays and higher… (View Post)