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    Have you tried running your model backwards to see if it produces something like the events which actually happened? That…
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    • Kipling's views were a bit more complex than you suggest. He could certainly imagine the end of empire. Look at…
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    • I can help with some of the more prominent figures. Michael Ancram MP (he is actually the Marquis of Lothian…
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    • It seems to me that the German political system under the Nazi regime is not comparable to the American political…
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    • The revival of canal traffic seems to be an example of the free market acting to develop a substitute for…
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    • From the Civil War to the Great Depression (Presidential elections from 1860 to 1928) the Republicans were the normal national…
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    • Democratic winners of open elections with no incumbent:- 1960 John F. Kennedy 1884 Grover Cleveland 1856 James Buchanan 1852 Franklin…
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    • I have had a quick look at the ICC web site which includes a document defining quite a variety of…
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    • A coup, sponsored by shadowy military and CIA figures, might produce a regime less inclined to reckless adventures abroad but…
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    • If BC adopts a STV election system there will be no need for electoral co-operation between the NDP and Green…
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    • The War on Terror is about anti-American ex-CIA asset terrorists not still pro-American CIA asset terrorists.
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    • This recalls the confident way in which the McNamara Pentagon used estimates of dead Vietcong, not appreciating that the figures…
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    • I thought the voiceover pastiche of the opening paragraph from the War of the Worlds (before the octopus appeared)and the…
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    • The major factor sustaining the Labour/Conservative two party system is the first past the post electoral arrangements. Since 1974 the…
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    • A few thoughts occur to me. I never thought that Osama bin Laden and his friends were a major threat…
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    • This phrase, applied to Judges, has a technical legal meaning derived from British practice well known to the Founding Fathers…
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    • The song you posted seems to have some similarities with a Steeleye Span song I have. There are some of…
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    • I accept that in a short post I did not deal with every factor which led to the Union. Clearly…
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    • The Union of Parliaments, between England and Scotland in 1707, was the result of negotiation between elites. The basic deal…
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    • Good summary, but Ed Matts is only a candidate not the former MP for Dorset South.
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