Anywhere where there was colonisation there is lasting conflict of some kind. Even stable places like Australia (Aborigines), New Zealand (Maoris) and USA (Native Americans) have problems hundreds of years later. In countries with stable democracies they are generally being resolved by peaceful negotiation but elsewhere they are the source of armed conflict. It's easy to take a modern view of the morality of colonisation but at the time it looked sensible and fair. I sometimes wonder what we're currently doing with blithe certainty that will appear to future historians as acts of evil. Vin
Let women and children in... Men can stay and sort out their country. They're not getting jobs here anyway.
Rather than looking at this from the perspective of someone at a distance, try putting yourself in their position. If someone took over Southampton and ran it with overwhelming force, by which I mean people with AK47s and no morality whatsoever, tell me how you'd "sort it out". Some problems are truly impossible for the man in the street to resolve. Vin
Jo Konta, Britain's number 2 tennis player, puts out her second seeded player to reach the last 16 in New York
Except Syria and Iraq were never colonised by Britain. The problem came about due to the removal of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, post WW1 The British than ran Iraq(Mesopotamia) briefly as a protectorate for a few years, before the independent Kingdom of Iraq came about in 1930. Britain had nothing to do with Syria except for its borders. During and after the First World War the Muslim Turks and Kurds carried out genocide against the Armenians and the Assyrians, both largely Christian. Some things don't change.
Horrific rally crash in Spain . 6 dead several injured . Driver and co driver fine ( uninjured ) why does it always take something like this to happen before action is taken ?
It was an awful video too. Crowd stood on a bank as cars fly passed at 100mph on muddy bumpy lanes. Not a good recipe.
Immaculately observed minutes silence from the F1 drivers there for Justin Wilson. All of them stood and took off their hats in respect...... ......except Hamilton, who left his cap on backwards. And you wonder why people don't like him....
Nope. He's got a "cool" new blonde hairdo. It's clearly more important for him to 'debut' that on the grid, than show respect for a fellow driver.
It's just basic decency though isn't it? I mean it's not much to ask. Such a great driver, such a wally.
