I've worked with the EU professionally. They are very patchy. DG-Markt, for instance, is as good as our own parallel institutions, if too statist for my liking. But some of the other departments… (View Post)

No, but her script writers/adviers will have told her to include it as an easy way to push the buttons of the urban millenial and Gen-Z demographic. Just as Diana accused unnamed courtiers of sexism … (View Post)

They keep doing him the massive favour of underestimating him. You'd think they'd have learned by now. (View Post)

Probably. He seems to be pretty crap, but there isn't an obvious alternative, and it's just about possible that the government may mess up enough over the next few years to lose their major… (View Post)

Candidates for directly elected offices like the London Mayor or the Governor or California need either the backing of a big party machine (Sadiq), or some kind of celebrity (Arnold Schwarzenegger), … (View Post)