I have been a subscriber the The Economist for decades, but increasingly it is becoming unreadable. They used to be generally astute, now they are not even as astute as other media outlets. When they… (View Post)

I think the staggeringly crass behavior of the American crowds has rather fired up the Europeans... But then these are the kind of Americans who think the creepy, humorless, criminally vulgar dullard… (View Post)

Mostly US craft beer is pretentious and silly and you end up with 8% giraffe flavoured witch pee. The US craft beer "revolution" is mostly uninteresting. Go around the beer festivals across… (View Post)

I think being a witting asset of Russian intelligence is something that ALL parties should condemn. The fact that there is even hesitation is disgraceful. That does, I think, ask serious questions of… (View Post)

The point about digital ID is that it sets the protocols for how data is handled and exchanged. Currently there are no effective controls. As for the rather tired idea that the elderly are too dim to… (View Post)