Recent content by Flying Pig

No, it doesn't. EU (and other international) students pay dramatically more, and I don't think they're eligible for those loan systems. Still, it's difficult to see why market forces shouldn't be allowed to reign there - most of the arguments for promoting access to university cease to apply...

You're right on the income threshold, which was lower than I thought. You pay 9% of what you earn above £17,775. The UK average income is £22,044, though it's lower (around £20,000) for those of the age to be at or leaving university. The point stands, however, that they can't bankrupt you - if...

As a point of information, tuition fees are not charged upfront. You start paying them off only when you're earning (significantly) above the national average. Nor is there any requirement to pay them off in full - after forty years, any remainder is written off. The matter of living for three...

As was this thread. Back to the grave with it.

I'm uncomfortable with saying that history happens because powerful people lied and less-powerful people just went along with it - as if that's what ordinary people do. Part of the answer has to be, surely, that the poor whites did gain something out of suppressing black people, and that they...

I doubt that most of those things are known precisely - particularly the nature of coverings, which are unlikely to have survived long enough to be excavated. For your purposes, they're also probably quite unimportant. What matters, surely, is that people recognise the site, not that a given...

Moved to World History.

I have been away, and have now returned.

The nobility, perhaps. Alexander famously organised a mass wedding where he married (another) Persian noblewoman and had his officers likewise take Persian brides. It's often repeated that nearly all of them divorced them soon afterwards, suggesting that they didn't share the boss's enthusiasm...

Being 'bigger than Jesus' in the sixties was a bit of a stretch, but you may right that 'bigger than Paul' was more manageable...

Isn't that the fundamental problem with this, though? It's a pretty basic principle of civilised, liberal society that we only punish people for their own actions. We indirectly punish people fairly regularly - if a family's only breadwinner steals a car, the rest of them are going to lose out -...

As the saying goes, nobody remembers the match, but everyone remembers the scoreline. The article may be right that Macron hasn't brought about a total change in French attitudes to politics, but he's still done about as much as he (a politician, not a missionary) could really have wanted.

Given that the average prisoner is 'paid' $28,000 in the cost of running the prison, and it can go up to $40,000, they would be much better off just employing people. Not to mention that most work done in prisons is actually for the upkeep of the prison itself, or else light manufacturing...

Yes, we really need some people on here who don't agree with Halsall... Possibly true on Ammianus: there's certainly a strong trend for 'good old days' thinking throughout his work, though there aren't a lot of Roman writers who don't have that. I don't think anyone actually knows when Ammianus...

Given that this whole page seems to be a combination of red text and off-topic debates, I think it's time to send this thread to the great server in the sky.