These scenes from the States remind me of the London riots.

[Sir C]

What it tells me is that the whole unfortunate Russian Revolution business could have been avoided if only St Petersburg had had a branch of FootLocker back then.

Makes you think.

To think, the Romanovs could have retained their empire (and, indeed, lives) by handing out free Nike Air Max; so the Russians wouldn't have stopped fighting the Germans, Hitler would have died, no world war 2, no cold war and no space race. And you know what that means.

Yes, we might have ended up without velcro.