Is the current NATO campaign in Afghanistan the biggest military blunder since Elphinstone's retreat from Kabul in 1842, when 16,000 British, European and Indian troops were massacred by Afghan...
Many people are addicted to inventions shown on Dragon's Den etc. Assuming you are not money motivated what invention have you created and would like the world to know about?
So, Sir Ian Kennedy believes he hasn't got to implement Sir Christopher Kelly's report recommendations in their entirety. This is despite both Gordon Brown and David Cameron agreeing with the Kelly...
reading all the below posts with reguard the islam, im curious how this will play out within the next say 50yrs, i can see the west pulling out of afghanistan and a flood of people leaving afghanistan...
With our soldiers continually blown up with IEDs why is it the local population unnaffected? You would expect to see many Afghan amputees.
Do you believe they are in league with the Taliban?...
http://www.dailymail....troops-army-base.html So this savage gunman who killed 12 and injures a further 31 troops on their own base, was not only a senior officer, an educated army psychiatrist, but...
What per centage of the current conflicts in the World are against Muslims? What per centage of the World's atrocities, whether 9/11 or yesterday's shooting at Fort Hood, have been perpetrated by...
can anyone explain the appeal of the Muslim faith? I cannot for the life of me understand it, especially for women? Certainly the public image is of restrictions, antiquated customs and views, and...
http://news.bbc.co.uk.../business/8343948.stm It has been announced today that the car scrappage scheme has assisted a 33% increase in new car sales during October compared with last year. Schemes...
//A former British MEP has admitted fiddling £36,000 worth of expenses after switching his plea at his trial. Tom Wise, 61, from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, denied charges of false...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8342488.stm Is it time for us to leave now? The soilders could concentrate on our own security. I used to think we had a purpose there but it would seem that a western...
H.M. Treasury today becomes perhaps the biggest hedge fund in the UK: it is investing £25.5bn in Royal Bank of Scotland shares and £5.7bn in Lloyds shares, financed almost exclusively by...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8338220.stm After another soldier is killed making a bomb safe is there another method to make them inactive without handling them at close quarters? They know the bomb...
i haven't had a reply in Finance - I just want to know people's thoughts on internet banking, I am thinking about signing up to internet banking, but am slightly concerned about identify fraud, etc....
http://www.independen...-johnson-1813691.html If the BNP can get the other parties that frightened, that some are now prepared to listen and address the problems attached to mass immigration, then...
Hi. I was doing a percentage calculation (not really important) and was trying to work out how much of an additional substance on top of a known value, would equal 17% of the total. The formula below...
Is it right that after something like a hundred years of suffrage, and somewhat less of universal suffrage, that in the twenty first century the media should seek to rate (presumably) inteligent women...
