People always criticise GDP for not measuring the things its not supposed to measure

The Italian Army and Air Force's performance in WW2 was disastrous. The Regia Marina was much better, but it couldn't compete with a Royal Navy operating at peak efficiency.

Dutch is the language most close to English bar Afrikaans

One is reminded of the Felix Dennis maxim: "If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it"

"it's a dense network" makes me wonder how it would compare if Beeching hadn't had his way

Man, the GOP is really going all in on the anti-Haitan racism

I wish there was a feature to delete all your old tweets. It would save me a lot of headaches.

Part of the problem the Soviets had was that all of their satellite states were economic burdens that required period injections of dollars and cheap oil to keep afloat Most of America's main allies were prosperous in their own right

Such a staggering example of self immolation

The Grand Tour finale was a pleasant nostalgia trip because I remember watching the Botwswana special when it came out Also, wow, it shows how much they aged lol

The total money spent on Bomber Command in WW2 was around 5x that spent on the Manhatten Project 🤯 ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/hand…

Beria is a fascinating figure because he was simultaneously a psychotic rapist (Stalin even introduced him to Churchill as "our Himmler") and a foreign policy moderate who wanted less tension with the West

Another banger from Darsam

Tories gave up on economic growth because it was both too hard and contradicted the wishes of their geriatric voter base

There are still plenty of quaint English towns and villages with cricket pitches and restaurants serving tea and scones Getting out of the house and going to visit them would be far healthier than constructing an entire ideology off 1950s media

A typical urban household in early 1950s Britain was a renter with a coal fire, a bathroom shared with several neighbours, and no hot water. And they lived in an environment with an appalling level of pollution, made worse by the prevalence of smoking.

Another bullseye 🎯 from Wren-Lewis