I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people li… (View Post)

Also, it is an achievable physical task which has an end goal which we can see when it has been achieved - this is something we are hard-wired to feel satisfaction for, but which we get precious few … (View Post)

That must be why immigration is now fixed. (View Post)

It's very hard and almost certainly misguided to ascribe a single 'want' to a large amorphous blob of people, but, with misgivings, I'm going to try: I would argue that for '… (View Post)

But there would be a secondary question of how many of the last ten ambassadors were notorious loosr cannons. AFAIUI, it was customary for the ambassador to the US to be a career diplomat with a trac… (View Post)