"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free, but it only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
-- Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

A fish rots from the head.

THIS government - humainity? No way!

But how could a judgement be enforced? The BBC could, presumably, be made to liquidate its assets in the USA, but after that the court has no jurisdiction. (Though, because of US exceptionalism, it might claim it has.)

I stopped buying the Observer when it featured a 'reasonably priced' house nearly 30x the price of the house I had just bought. Obviously not the newspaper for me!

It was Constantine who captured Christianity and made it a tool of Empire.

Yes, any left-wing party that actually improved the lot of its voters (i.e. victims) would destroy itself.

Various governments forced us to buy unsuitable British products like the wretched ICL 2980 mainframe computer I worked with. ICL seemed to think the country owed them a living; that feeling seems to have persisted into Futjitsu UK when they were taken over.

Has he EVER 'led' the country, except to despair?

Some 'Christians' delight in the misery of others (and themselves too sometimes).

As the US armed forces famously declared in Vietnam: 'in order to save the village we had to destroy it.'

Lie upon lie upon LIE!

It'll be nobody's party the way it's carrying on.

There is a strand of Christianity that delights in pain and suffering.

I started to read it but it was very tedious. Is there ANYTHING later on about the life, teaching and example of Jesus of Nazareth?