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Decimalisation and the coin you really want to find in your change BBC News 15th February 2021 Fifty years ago today, the UK converted to a decimal currency, and one and two new pence coins became the modern way to pay. Now, there is another debate, over the need to keep notes and coins when...

Well Mexico was an independent country during the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War, which saw the US annex large swathes of Mexico (the present states of California, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico). America's war of expansionism was actually criticised by the House of Representatives at...

Much more influential than Canada.

Meghan and Prince Harry expecting second child BBC News 14th February 2021 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple has said. Harry and Meghan are preparing to welcome a brother or sister for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who...

What if America took over vast swathes of Canada? Would you not be bothered or would you demand that America hand it back and that it should only be other countries' lands they should take but not Canadian land? It's one of the two.

It changed because the Americans stole it. How would you like it if they took huge swathes of Canada the way they did Mexico? I rather suspect you'd be demanding America gave them back.

Yes, it is. It's stealing British land from Britain. There is no justification for those 13 colonies belonfing to the United States, regardless of what your romantic history books say. So vast swathes of eastern America was stolen from the British. Most of western and southern America was...

This is what Mexico used to be like:

They'll vote for him now, because they're dead.

So those states were never part of Mexico?

It used to be part of Mexico till the Americans stole it from them in the 1840s - so did California, Arizona, and New Mexico - just like they stole the 13 colonies from the British. If the Americans gave back everything they stole there'd be virtually nothing less. Most of their country was...

There was no internet back then.

I'm going to set up an online petition.

There's one in Melbourne, too, named after the British ship Lady of St Kilda.

They were British before they were American. Or am I wrong?

Why Are We STILL In Lockdown? 🤬 Stats Undeniable 🎉 Facts MSM, BBC & Piers Won’t Tell You Even 117 year old women are surviving it.

Katie Hopkins TRUMP ACQUITTED! it is tiring isn't it?... winning this hard...