Nor did King George V (tutored by Hugh Dalton's father, who by all accounts was an even bigger twat than Hugh) and Edward VIII and George VI only went to Royal Osborne quite late on. (View Post)

I have spent the last thirty years being constantly amazed by US foreign policy. And the only reason it hasn't been amazing me longer is that I took no prior interest in it. Why would electing s… (View Post)

At least she's not an Englishman. (Think about it...) (View Post)

Biden was from Delaware (albeit born in Pennsylvania). I wouldn't say that really fitted your category of 'south' even if it was one of the last states to abolish slavery. (View Post)

Incidentally, on SM one thing we may be forgetting is how the companies are increasingly making their own content unusable without premium membership anyway, through ads, poor layout and irrelevant m… (View Post)