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"I can't speak for the UK, I haven't spent enough time there"

Yet you lecture people from the UK on how to speak English and how to use the definite article. Funny that!

Maoist China was full of slavery. Even today China uses slave labour to produce goods in prison camps etc. It didn't end slavery in Tibet, it just industrialised it and redefined it.

"The only example really is the annexation of Tibet in 1950, which was obviously controversial but it's also complicated because it ended the practice of slavery in Tibet. Yes, slavery."

That depends on whether you consider Marxist concentration camps to be slavery or not.

It will be great when it's used to help the severely disabled. Not so great when we're all forced to use it and have advertising beamed into our dreams.

There are three Green parties in the UK. There isn't a "UK Green Party" as such. Polanski's is England and Wales.

There are three Green Parties in the UK. The SGP members have had a supply agreement with the ruling SNP in the Scottish Parliament for years. There was even talk of them being in coalition for a while.

Green Party of England and Wales.

Both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green Parties. There is no single UK Green Party.

The recent Elizabeth Holmes documentary probably counts.

"How do ya think that Scottish Parliament's gettin' on?"

You're obviously taking the piss, but since you ask, it did some good things when it started, but it has stagnated in my view. There are a lot of other issues it hasn't addressed, but should have.

I know someone who is facing bankruptcy over the next year or so due to a legal Catch 22 involving laws that the parliament should have sorted out long ago. He's physically disabled which doesn't help either. I can't go into detail but it's a situation that doesn't exist anywhere but Scotland, as far as I know, and is a kind of poverty trap. We're trying to find a route out of the situation which is not illegal.

"historically the fossil fuel industry has been a major funding cornerstone of the right."

The Eastern Bloc in the Cold War was extremely keen on fossil fuels (and nuclear power) and very poor at dealing with pollution. As is the PRC.

In Western Europe, coal miners were the backbone of the far left in places like Germany and the UK including Communist parties. The British Labour Party's vote was traditionally strongest in coal mining areas.

I don't know so much about the US situation, but I am aware that some American coal miners were involved in socialist movements there many decades ago.

I think it is pretty obvious from the context. He made a disgusting accusation against me and seems to think it is acceptable. People sue for less.

The man's a total hypocrite and won't apologise when he's proven wrong. I don't tolerate bullies.

Thank you. I've been looking at the wrong end of the page and tried to do it with an external search engine that returned no useful results.

More nasty insinuation, this time without the swearing.

You post partisan political commentary of dubious merit on here all the time and clearly think your advice applies to everyone but you. You say you want interesting content but post Wikipedia links. You also admit you do not understand English idiom on one of your posts and then lecture me on it. Even after a BBC link was shown to you proving one of your personal claim against me was a lie.

TLDR: "It's different when Jacques does it".

I notice you avoided a number of my questions to you, because you can't answer them. Obviously you have a few things you'd rather not 'fess up to. (I wonder where your "angel" money really comes from?) You don't like it when someone stands up to you.

Physician heal thyself...

Diana Muldaur is still around. Probably some of the child actors.

Michael Forest, the guy who played Apollo, also passed away recently.

I had tried to search for this on the site but did not get any search results returned. What is the best way to the site?

At least this is a different article.

"This is one of the problems with what the Celts did: they didn't write."

That is a common misconception. We don't have much in the way of ancient Celtic writing, or even enough, but we do have some . The best known example is the Coligny Calendar. Some of the Celtic peoples used the Greek script and variants. There is also debate about how old Ogham is (although AFAIK there is no evidence of it from Hallstatt and La Tene).

I would not be surprised if some pre-Roman Celtic writing does turn up from this region at some point.

"I'm trying to less divide the world by country or similar, and divide it more by Oligarchy and The People. The vast majority of us have the same needs, dreams, and desires. The Oligarchy and media (they largely control) seek to divide us."

A world government will be a disaster. It will have every problem of current governments writ larger including corruption.

"You seem intent on being argumentative, in considering your collection of comments under this flagged post, so I'm checking out of this thread. I hope you do the same"

Doubt you will read this, but it's called sticking up for yourself. You should try it some time. A pity this site is run on peer pressure. Peer pressure causes half the problems in this world from blanket conformity to kids taking up smoking.

Old school magazines and newspapers have not adapted well to the internet at all. I don't entirely understand the psychology of it, but somehow it was a lot more satisfying to buy a print magazine and hold it in your hand than take out an online sub. I think it was partly because I tended to buy individual issues based on the cover or contents, rather than buying them blind.

Unfortunately, when these pubs' readership started to decline, so did their revenue and they would have started taking money from "philanthropists" with an axe to grind. (Not always in the obvious areas. I used to read a local sports magazine which has ended up little more than a promotion for various private schools.)

There was always an element of soft power about Scientific American, and it was tailored partly to people without specialist expertise in whatever field, but it did not feel like political propaganda back in the nineties.