I'm not a teacher, but it seems about half of my friends are. At least I get to hear funny stories about kids being idiots. (View Post)

The "best" way to deal with refugees is probably the hardest. Making sure that every country in the world is a pretty secure and decent place to live. My argument has managed to enter cloud… (View Post)

It was pretty ridiculous when members of the intelligence oversight committees in both the US and UK admitted the first time they'd heard details of NSA/GCHQ large-scale online surveillence was from … (View Post)

@CaloNord This whole thread puts me in mind of Winston Churchill's quote, "It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government apart from all those other forms that have been tried f… (View Post)

@Squire‌ has a good point about the difference in aims between private and public running of organisations. In many cases there's an uneasy halfway zone between the two, as with the public transport … (View Post)