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. Two thirds of Scots support second referendum Of those asked by Ipsos Mori, 66% said they would support the vote taking place in the next decade regardless of circumstances. Just 31% would oppose a referendum in the next ten years. . No, we English only allow the Scots to vote on independence eve...

God/Allah/Y..w.h//the spirit of Humanity bless us all, every one. And Tiny Tim as well.

What happens to the Spengler forum aka the Expat Bar? No mention of this issue on the forum itself.

Folks, Nice to wake up this morning and find that Britain is still here. :D Alex. Yes, that my country is not 30% smaller (although it would have been wealthier, healthier, and with lower average rainfall and higher average temperatures!) With more powers offered to the Scots probably influencing t...

Final numbers 45% Yes 55% No, on an amazing 86% turnout. Relieved to wake up this morning and find that Scotland, a country I love, is not leaving us. Thank you Scots for voting in unprecedented numbers, and deciding to stick with us, however tricky it gets at times. Scotland updates its Facebook pa...

Nonc Hilaire wrote:I think a single malt government for Scotland would naturally be more representative. Why wouldn't any country want to escape the parasitic influence of the EU/NATO control system at this point.

But the Scots are keen on the EU, while the English are not....

It does not work if there is no assimilation. There is little assimilation of poor Muslims. EDIT: Come to think of it, there's little assimilation of poor people in general. When the Daily Mail talks about the Romanian problem in England, it's not Romanian businessmen they complain about. If you're...

The new cold war:
Allies = US+Japan+ EU+ (probably) ASEAN.
Axis= China + Russia.

The ME left to kill itself, although both sides will try to get client states (if there are any functioning states left).

I changed from hard sciences to economics in my second year, which I enjoyed much more, I seem to have a bullshit gene, hence an addiction to internet forums. I can't say it was any easier, indeed the subject is inherently much harder than theoretical physics, which is why so much of the it is usele...

The pervasiveness of American racism always surprises me. Even liberals talk as if blacks are on another planet. Black people have become surprisingly well integrated here, so much so that there is a high interracial marriage rate, and, ultimate accolade, the England team's black footballers are jus...

The odds are that we will get an El Nino in the Pacific this winter , if so that would normally bring a lot of rain to the west coast and break the drought (conversely, the eastern Pacific gets drought). Traditional Mediterranean gardens such as the Alhambra use local drought resistant cover plants,...

A centralised state system such as the UK's or Canada's, even if the latter varies by province, would never be politically acceptable in the US, but a suitable role model might have been the world's oldest (going back to Bismarck). Could that have been done with an extension of Medicare? The core pr...

Doc, that's an awful story.

I have a question to Americans of all political persuasions: how can you manage to screw up universal health care provision, which every other developed country manages to do, without too much difficulty?

Legally their passports cannot be seized as that would make them stateless. The government refuse them entry or arrest them for treason, the trouble is that they will not have "Syria" or "Iraq" in their passports - and if they are travelling via another EU country (which they wil...

Well, it's the main news here. It is clear that Rotherham is not alone, but the scale and incompetent handling of the issue seem to be on a different scale to anywhere else. Elsewhere, there have been more prosecutions. The public reaction (especially in the right wing tabloid press) is well, bloody...

It would be nice to have an imaginary friend, like I did when I was little. It might even help, especially with that wayward weakling, the Will. I thought some years ago that I would give this Kierkegaardian thing a go, on the just-assume-and-see-what-happens basis. "Jesus in my heart" was...

At least it's not another mosque

Mr. Perfect has been suspended from this forum. Although he is far from being my favourite poster I continue finding it very hard to accept this type of penalties. We are all grown up people and we can simply shrug Mr. P's excesses off without resorting to authoritarian measures. Mr. P's posts are ...

The joke here in Britain was that most people were supporting Germany because it was a lot longer since we went to war with them than with the Argies... The UK Premiership has been fantastically successful at marketing itself globally - and making money. Yet only 30% of players are British, and that...

Good post Azari, only trying to wind you up. The fight against Muslim fundamentalism in the UK is being led by a feisty Iranian woman The only downside is that she is an idealistic Communist, but these days that is rather quaint and naive and far less threatening than fundamentalist religion , thirt...

Inspired by Mr. Perfect's Left Wing Supply Siders thread. Of all the people you know, well enough to be on a first name basis with them, which would you estimate to be the grater number? Left wing political activists who are hypocrites based on their personal actions. or Right wing religious activi...

She is not only the first woman ever to win the Fields medal, also the first person from the Middle East. Congratulations to her. But, as a good Iranian woman, Azari, shouldn't she be at home wrapped in a bedsheet having babies, rather than doing all this stuff which is for men? She is even married ...

Personally it always seems like Western Europe vs eastern Europe There is a lot of disdain over the unequal relationship with the west being given advantages over the east in the arraignment. No longer. The Poles, Balts, Czechs, Slovaks are doing all right, thank you, and a former citizen of the DD...

Thank you VERY MUCH for your posts, MG, and if you say thank you VERY MUCH again, I shall throw a figurative IED in your direction (or put you on ignore). It's very irritating, which presumably is the intention.

Thanks to ISIS in Iraq, the USA and Iran are moving to almost an alliance. Steve Bell's comment in the Guardian: http://s27.postimg.org/jfc2g9phf/Steve_Bell_17_06_2014_001.jpg What next, will Al Qaeda join them (after all, they think that ISIS is too extreme. The inspiration for Bell's cartoon, Davi...