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Since I've no idea how to frame what I want to say. As some of you may recall, and the vast majority of you will quite understandably not, I once posted on here regularly, but my visitations have kind of lapsed - I just looked at the last time I logged in, and that itself was last October. I...

Just something I was thinking about yesterday, and which was also prompted by the Extremism thread. I was sort of casually wondering what made various online forums what they were. In my experience, forums range very widely in their quality. I've bee a mod on some boards, and have posted on...

I was pondering this question this mornng: If, as looks increasingly likely, George Bush wins in November, who would win the Republican nomination for President in 2009? I thought that it depended, quite significantly, on whether Cheney resigns in the next term, or indeed is goaded into...

How do you place cities in editor? I can't select the city or unit select buttons; they're greyed out. Not sure what version I'm on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3690139.stm Shotgun diplomacy paying off for once. This can only be a good thing for Georgia.

I don't want to be a party pooper here, but there are simply too many threads being created on OT. I can go away for half a day, and a discussion I might have been involved in earlier may already be nearing half way down page two. I find it almost impossible to adequately keep track of the...

I'm counting from GMT. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3672813.stm :bday: [party] :band: [party] :bday: (Okay, so it says "happy birthday", and this isn't a birthday celebration. Bugger it, though.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3121336.stm Not terribly good for either of the two main parties. I'd place good money on this being a microcosm of the next general election; Labour trying to fend off the Lib Dems with the Tories nowhere in sight.

Emperor Blair makes historic address Emperor Blair is set to address his subjects tonight, according to The Imperial Ministry of Englightenment. "Emperor Blair realises that his subjects need comfort, and information as to why Emperor Blair is making this utterly justified course of...

Can somebody give me some information on how one converts to Catholicism, and what teachings do you have to accept as given, and what are open to interpretaion, please? Any information is useful, thanks.

Yet another thread that isn't about Iraq! it's shocking! Who would make the best PM of The UK, in your opinion?

Is not looking that rosy at the moment. He has made the most abominable miscalculation, he really has. Blair set out originally, in the very immediate aftermath of September the 11th to act as a bridge between Rumsfeld unilateralism and European multilateralist tendencies. But, as the old...

Something that has been frustrating me of late: Who are the current holders of The Bourbon/legitimist and Bonapartist claims to the French throne? Has anyone any ideas?

I've been thinking about this lately. And I believe now that The Monarch is more useful than an actual elected President would be. Let us consider what The Monarchy is there for. Ceremonial and ambassadorial functions. Are we agreed? Now, to me, it seems a monarch who has been engaged...

It's time for a UK constitution. As The UK gears itself up for 2003 proper, The UK system of government is ill equiped to confront the democratic nature of such a time in history; we have a system that is still needlessly remote, inefficent and poorly equiped for modern Britain. I suppose...

What is you take on Democracy? The choices are: 1) The best system there is, and likely to be the best system that is humanly possible. It may not be completely perfect, but it is clearly the best, and there is unlikely to be anything to rival it in this status in the future. 2) An...

A show I'm sure many of us know and love. :) Favourite quotes, anyone? Mine would be from Queeq, series 2.: "This is mutiny, Mr. Queeg. I'll see you swing from the highest yard-arm in Titan Docking Port for this day's work." (Holly, to Queeq.)

What do you think caused the far-right backlash in Europe recently? What was it symptomatic of? Although the far-right had many notable victories in Europe of late, the general thrust of things seems to be slowing down for them. The Freedom party in Austria has greatly stalled, and Pym...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/08/police.kill.dog/index.html Obviously Tennessee police trying to downplay the stereotype of Southern Law enforcement as a moronic, gung-ho, shoot-to-kill business yet again.

I was playing as Greece the other day, and one of my advisors (Can't remember which - I think it was either the military or foreign affairs one) suddenly said "Greece will always win over Rome, because Rome is stupid." Or, at least, something along those lines. Sorry, no screen shot, but it's...