Top Gear would have dwindled away even with Clarkson punching someone. We have so much more choice of what to watch and what to do now. 30 years ago, almost everyone household's telly was on in he ev… (View Post)

Yes, people aren't voting Reform because they want to replace left wing posturing with right wing posturing - they're voting Reform because they consider posturing stupid. I bet the median Reform vot… (View Post)

Interesting one, though. I'd be annoyed if an image of Donald Trump was projected onto my house. It 'feels' like there ought to be some legal way of stopping someone from doing so. But I can't see un… (View Post)

But things improved in the Soviet Union too. The question is, what would have happened in tge counterfactual? Happily for political economists, the world has given us exactly three counterfactuals: p… (View Post)

I know. It's almost as if the world doesn't divide neatly into goodies and baddies*, heroes and villains, saints and sinners. Nuances abound. All we can do is recognise this. Lamemtably, millions do … (View Post)