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Many of the great cities of the world were built up in the past with the proceeds of prostitution. London's Bayswater Road was the centre of madams and their speciality acts until the prim and proper Victorians did a purge against them. Banning things like sex-for-sale, alchohol, drugs etc...

Give ALL his executive powers to Congress and then the Pres could concentrate on more important things like golf and welcoming foreign visitors.

The real dummy of the lot must surely be George Dubya Bush. I mean who else wasted so much money ? Is it 18 trillion by now ? Except of course the uber dummies that elected him I suppose. I mean 911 was only 2 buildings. Hardly worth the price which is starting up again. The US would be a lot...

Looks to me that modern Presidents have too big a job for one man. Too many problems. The more capable Prezzis try to micro manage every little thing and get into a worse mess. The answer is to delegate to capable people while remaining aloof ( not my fault ).

Maybe the world's airlines could do a lot to offset global warming by having planes that fly over equatorial regions spray a light mist of water as they fly. Just maybe this will cause extra clouds to form cooling the planet ? Any views ?

Melting of glaciers caused by human activity has soared in the past 20 years, a study has shown. Human influence is now the strongest driver of glacier melting, which has been occurring since the end of the "Little Ice Age" in the mid-19th century, it is claimed. Between 1851 and 2010, only a...

An interesting documentary was on telly last night about the sudden rise of the jelly fish problem. Particularly in Asian waters the fishermen are hauling in tons of jellies which if broken up do not die but grow into more jellies. It is thought that over fishing has contributed to this problem...

Personally I like 2.5 deviation BBs plus a little

I note with some hilarity that the geniuses in Washington are looking to Iran to pull their Iraqi chesnuts out of the fire ??? Will the Isil extremists gain more ground, now that an air war is being waged ? Those troop carrying convoys should be easy targets on lonely roads across the desert...

Hi redbox The average is 1955.5

Hitler built up his support in post 1914-18 war by accusing the Jews of letting down their country and being responsible for losing the war. Total rubbish but if the people want to believe the lie they will. Somebody else's fault. Even in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice the Jewish...

Fair play and accepting the will of democracy haven't really jelled for that region yet - maybe another century or 2.

I wonder what on earth they could be thinking ? Seems clear enough to me.

Bonus points for the humanitarian food drops in Iraq for those refugees trapped on a mountain imho. If Isil get to Irbil the hundreds of US citizens there will be beheaded too, probably in public, so keep going on the bombing imho. Should have kept back some cluster bombs just for this sort of...

Please don't get too offended but the US has a dismal record of overspending and waste of lives in their foreign policies in recent decades. From isolation in the 1930s to all-in involvement ! Being an ocean away from the rest of the world doesn't make it easy but ........... Take the present...

Yup another balls up. I see on Bloomberg Hillary is saying she would have been much more forceful in Syria. Has nobody mentioned to her that the anti Assad forces included the Isil lunatics rampaging around now ? How many did they behead last week ? Silly cow !!

C'mon guys show off your expertise, don't be shy.

climate change, pollution ( every 1 in 5 seals in Cali's Golden Gate area has cancer ) and compulsory education for politicians ( weed out the dangerous lunatics ) should be made UN priorities.

Strangely enough probably the worst US President for the USA in recent times was JFK. And why ? 1. The Bay of Pigs fiasco set the stage for the later disaster of interfering in Vietnam. 2. JFK set the agenda for future US Presidents with again disastrous results in the Middle East etc. He had...

S&P 500 cash close last week 1931.59 Up 1949 I think this might be a bounce from the recent drops