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The impression here is that Britain maintained its empire by oppression! Certainly there were many examples of it but over 300 years and a quarter of the land mass of the globe that's hardly surprising.The fact is though that there were very few troops either stationed abroad or even available...

The US of today can be traced back to the early days of the British Empire , part of North America gained independence (whether they benefited from it is debatable) and became the embryonic United States.It took its laws lock stock and barrel from Britain,modelled the powers of the President on...

Not so sure about this.Saddam had a pretty tight grip on things plus a wide reaching network of informers.People would think "What can I do with just my ***?" knowing that the chances of forming a ***** large enough to embarrass the government would be about zero because of the network.A really...

It makes sense to stand back from the rhetoric and look at reality. Does owning a *** for protection have the desired effect? Overall, no , you are many times more likely to shoot or be shot by a ****** member in error.This isn't to say that under no circumstances guns do protect you but it's...

One fact to amaze you all-the Empire at its height was administered by just 143 civil servants working in the Foreign Office at Whitehall. Not sure how many there are now............. Edit-despite it all , Britain still has the largest overseas empire! consisting of 13 dependent territories...

The British Empire was unlike most empires in the past, there never existed the military strength or even the will to assimilate vast areas through conquest.There was a military presence (and also a great Navy though this didn't have much effect inland!) but it was relatively tiny.

The majority of malware is specifically targeted at IE though this may change as market penetration by other browsers increases. That Firefox is a vastly safer browser is beyond question;also where vulnerabilities are found and exploited FF is very quick to offer a solution.It has been said...

Not all commercial ciders or perries are rubbish.Certainly stuff like Magners,Strongbow and the like which appear in supermarkets are pretty poor examples but there are quite a few small but nevertheless commercial cider and perry makers whose products are outstanding...

I am dismayed to see that you are using IE for your browsing. Unless you enjoy dealing with viruses and malware in general you would be immensely better off using Firefox. It's free and there is an incredible number of add ons for it ; some like "no script" offers very strong protection against...

Where do you live? There are better beers than anything from Beck's being brewed all over the US (Beck's is part of the InBev-AB group which are not noted for **** quality)

There's a whole series of problems with fathers.A British judge has just hit out at the "pass the partner" culture which exists.How a ***** can find out how men ought to behave when this is going on I don't know.A *** needs a role model , in the absence of his ****** other influences come into...

There's a school in Mansfield called the Garibaldi. Fancy naming a school after a biscuit.

One explanation is it related to when you bought ale "on the slate" and it was time to settle your bill.P's and Q's were references to pints and quarts.

It's been pretty obvious for centuries that someone being ******** will say whatever his torturers want to hear.It's very largely a waste of time.It also prevents us from taking the moral high ground and being the good guys.

Yes, if his fellow inmates know why he's there he will have a BAD time of it.

Re: Favorite alcoholic *****? Good ****.That means straight from the cask not ever a bottle or can.

I tried to follow this up and I get the impression he was doing just that.Why the police didn't make this clear if this was the case I don't understand.

Well , I get paid without going to work :-)

If this is an accurate account it's also disturbing and stupid.The police rely on having the consensus and support of the general population and this sort of thing will alienate them.Disturbing because of the calibre of people we are recruiting into the police.

The Romans routinely enlisted soldiers from one region to serve in another.Legions were often transferred through quite large distances so the effect on the genetic makeup of Europe would be difficult to judge.

Losing on the D/L formula like that! The formula needs looking at to prevent that sort of easy target regardless of wickets lost.

I can also recommend two WW2 histories by Max Hastings-Nemesis, the battle for Japan and Armageddon , the battle for Germany.

There may well be ***** life forms, the universe is quite big! As it's so big though the chance of anysuch beings picking the Earth to land on would be infinitessimally small.

OK but why should you like to spoil your body? It's like putting a beard on the Mona Lisa.

A paradox really-it's got everything wrong with it except that it works better than anything else. As for an elected House of Lords , what will another bunch of politicians do that the Commons don't do already? A reforming chamber needs to have different types of people in it who can take a...

As in a previous post, a tattoo is a deliberate disfigurement. I just can't follow the mentality of someone who ********* himself.Is it a feeling of inadequacy and having to make a statement? Or are they just sheeple who do it because it's the fashion?Or so arrogant as to think other people will...

A tattoo is a deliberate self disfigurement.

This freedom was though more theoretical than real.As it's government which underwrites your freedom there's no way you can live your life without some intrusion from it. Wild ******* don't have government so neither do they have rights.Do rabbits get protection from foxes ?

Baseball was invented by Doubleday? It goes back much further than that :-) Quote; The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut that shows a field set-up...

You seem to offer all the theoretical objections to what happens over here but nevertheless we do enjoy a comparable per capita income without the worries of a laissez-faire society.Some of the socialist countries actually offer a much higher standard of living than the US so the idea that...

It is in fact the most complex , fascinating and watchable game.Yes , occasionally the context of a game can it pointless but in general no other game comes near when it comes down to the number of variables.The 20/20 version of the game is immensely popular , it brings cricket back to the...

They would have to land at night though.

True, they were removed to prevent terrorists from leaving bombs in them (only in the major cities though)

Socialism doesn't work as a method of getting the goods , this is done much better by free enterprise and capitalism.The problem though with capitalism is that it has no room for the human dimension-posters have been complaining about outsourcing jobs to China for example.The market supports...

The problem with the Tories was that Blair simply stole their clothes which made being an opposition rather difficult!But in a sense we are repeating what happened in 1979 where the Labour government really blew it , the economy was in free fall and the country voted for a new broom to sweep it...

Perhaps it's because Omaha beach was the most dramatic , the other beaches were won with (relatively) light casualties.The Canadians who landed on Juno beach were the only ones to reach their planned objectives-don't forget that Canada accounted for a fifth of the men involved on D-Day .

The Free French ****** weren't involved on D-Day itself.The suggestion which has been made that the British only had a walk-on part is astounding ignorance.

That's a point which his detractors can't seem to grasp-in a few months Obama has transformed the way the US is viewed by others around the globe.He has significantly raised the status of his nation and the difference is palpable.

America existed as an English colony for a couple of hundred years before this.Much of the custom and practice ****** on unchanged when independence was secured.

There shouldn't be much wrong with them! I'm with an excellent NHS dentist.A full course of treatment (your teeth are checked and all remedial work done ) is about £49 or just $75.

Carlsberg has no taste.

Be sure that the bad guys already know about them.

Try http://mfps.porninpublic.com/content/nap_071804/videos/

Very much so but depending on the subject being studied. Schools in turn have been watering down their standards despite what the government says.The old "O" Level (for 16 year olds) and "A" Level (for 18 year olds) were really tough .Far tougher than present GCSEs and so called "A" Levels.An...

At one time it was a true statement;British universities only took the top 5% of the population and not all these stayed the course.So a British degree was set at a level which only a tiny percentage could hope to attain.Many schools at the time used American university text books.American...

It's horses for courses.In stop start traffic auto wins hands down , otherwise I prefer manual.Perhaps this is because I learnt in manual and drove them for 20 years before owning an automatic. I found it wasn't changing when I would have done on manual and changed when I wouldn't have done.Also...

Use the IE Tab option in this case. Using Internet Explorer is the surfing equivalent of unprotected sex-you can get away with it for a while but....................

Re: UN Security : The right of a permanent member to veto majority decision is justif The EU would never agree collectively on anything.I can't see why France was ever made a Permanent Member in the first place.

Actually the USSR wasn't more advanced than the US but it had two advantages. One is than the world didn't see its failures because they didn't announce them.They lost quite a few astronauts on the way. Second is that they had bigger rockets.This was a spinoff from the arms race where the...

Governments are composed of people (many of them like you and me) who come and go.You seem to have the delusion that they are some sort of secret society with some sort of agenda.They aren't , they are just people who turn up to go to work, have likes and dislikes and then move on.