Given your well known issues with mental health, I would have though the Bell Jar would be more appropriate reading. Herrnstein and Murray have made fundamental errors in statistical analysis to the … (View Post)

In wealthy countries, even the wealthy use public transport. Stockholm and Copenhagen are very good examples. In Oslo, even the King, when he was well, used the trams quite regularly. (View Post)

Bobby B´stard could be the coup de grace for the Tories... (View Post)

Thoughtful piece by Andy Beckett in the Grauniad on why the Tories may find things more difficult than they expect. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/22/tories-defeat-conservatives-b… (View Post)

Trump has no soft power, he is generally held in contempt across the democratic world, and not just the democratic world. The erosion of US convening power under Trump was quite marked in his first a… (View Post)