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The Nazis, despite their name, weren't socialists; if they were, they wouldn't have had the backing of the industrialists and landowners, all of whom had seen what had happened to their kind under socialism and communism a few hundred miles to the east. Said industrialists (eg: the Krupps, I G...

Mexicans now, isn't it?

Hmmm...interesting that Islam is 600 years 'younger' than Christianity: go back 600 years, even 400 or 500 years, and Christians were merrily burning each other at the stake for alleged heresy. Go back a bit further and bands of 'peaceful Christians' were eirenically rampaging through the...

Lots of factors behind Hitler's rise to power: 1. The Great Depression ----> lots of young men unemployed, plus a polarisation into extreme right and left in politics: both the Nazis and the KPD (communists) did well in elections from 1930 onwards. However the left-wing parties - the KPD and...

Definitely, Keith! The military equivalent of the old Byzantine porphyrogenetis. Both Mrs B (who knows) and I find it hard to believe that women don't know they're pregnant. Perhaps more rigorous medical tests before deployment?

LOL! Does that mean that we can deprive you of the vote - kind of a reverse of the 'no taxation without representation' principle? :tongue3:

I voted thus and I pay higher rate income tax again now (I used to prior to the credit crunch/ recession(s)/ downturn/ whatever you want to call it but then didn't between 2008-11 because of my business taking a hit).

I think you're onto something there...

What astounded me was his comment that there was something wrong with healthcare being viewed as an entitlement in a 21st century First World country. Words fail...

Sales taxes tend to disproportionately hit the poor if levied on things other than luxuries. So, it depends what you mean by a sales tax... There is also the point that taxes pay for services and the sort of society successful entrepeneurs need to make their millions, such as a good education...

Sorry you didn't like it. I was more upset by the Doctor polishing Solomon off last week than I was by the gun-pointing, which at least was in the context of Amy saying, "see, this is what you get like when you travel alone". It's also not the first time that the Doctor has been directly...

Wow! I think you'll love A Town called Mercy....

And the burning of Smyrna in September 1922. (Although arguably that was by the nascent more secularising Ataturk regime, which abolished the caliphate 2 years later.)

Here's another example of 'tolerance', from the other side of the Pond. Fortunately no loss of life...yet.

Is he a Oneness Penty, then? (I'm still glad he's freed, nevertheless.)

Thanks be to God!

Loved the twists with Oswyn but not sure how the Moff is going to have Jenna-Louise Coleman pop up again as Clara from Christmas. But...Oswyn Oswald and Clara Oswin....hmmm...

There are two possible 'spins' on what Akin said: 1. That he was attempting to distinguish between statutory rape and (forcible) rape of an adult woman. 2. That he was insinuating that some rapes were 'legitimate' ie: that the woman 'had it coming' for whatever spurious reason your average...

Yep, so you'll get it only a few hours after we do

(a) I'm not a liberal, just not blindly partisan (b) You've stated your OP has no point, hence there is no derailment (c) In English, the word is 'dementia'.