If the UAE stop spending money on the RSF in Sudan and start investing in Ukraine, that will be a good outcome. (View Post)

Apropos of which, I learnt today that the first leader of a political party in Ireland was Margaret Buckley, leader of Sinn Féin from 1937. Sinn Féin, of course, also had the first woman elected to W… (View Post)

Although there were a lot of references to his height... (View Post)

If you don't want people to make comparisons with ICE, maybe don't call it a "British ICE"? (View Post)

That is a good question. All that MAD stuff was predicated on an ongoing Cold War, with two global superpowers poised to go to war and tempted by a surprise first strike knocking out their enemy. Whe… (View Post)