One of my relatives showed me this video, which shows, very nicely, the casualty stats for different countries in WW2, including both military ad civilian deaths, including such things like the dropping of the atom bomb. Well worth watching.

http://www.fallen.io/ww2/

So, the 2015 election is drawing to a close and it looks like the surprising result is that the Conservatives will have the majority. Even if they fail to get over the 325 seats needed (which isn't definite), they seem to have enough that not even everyone voting against them can stop them (if they're just under, the three missing MPs Sinn Fein ( Read more... )

One of the really cool things about sitting in a sixth form library and minding the space is that there's a lot of time to read and a lot of interesting books to read if I want to. One of them that caught my eye has been the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. I wanted to read it, not because I want to storm the bastions of the bourgeoisie ( Read more... )

One of the things that's been on my mind politically is whether privatisation is good. This is topical at the moment because of the NHS reforms that are going through at the moment, which include a large amount of privatisation. It's also interesting because the term privatisation is intimately tied in with liberalism, and reading up on that has ( Read more... )

I was just thinking a bit more about the US Election and what it all means ( Read more... )

I can't sleep tonight. So I've been staying up and playing computer games for a bit until I feel tired ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to get really depressed with the whole Coalition government. I've kinda worked out that my political leanings are classically liberal, and so there are various things I believe that should happen. I believe we should balance our budgets and if this means austerity, then so be it, I believe that the government should generally stay ( Read more... )

I have been watching the US Republican Primaries with a certain level of horrified fascination. I'll never be a Republican supporter, and I would never want the Republicans to win if I lived in the US, but I still find myself having opinions about who I would like or wouldn't like to win the nomination ( Read more... )

After a good long break, I came back to the neoliberalism article and started rewriting it from the beginning. One of the major changes was that I removed the rigid pre-categorisation and instead opted for a more narrative and historical flow to the article, and this seems to have worked wonders for the clarity and decreased the bias considerably ( Read more... )

I noticed the US Supercommittee, which had been tasked to deliver a report on about $1.2 trillion in savings in the U.S. budget, as part of the compromise that nearly triggered a default on U.S. debt in August, has failed to come up with any recommendations. This triggered $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts, half in defence spending, and half in the ( Read more... )