I would limit claims to those we have a particular foreign policy interest in helping - Ukrainians, Hong Kongers and non-Trumpian American academics spring to mind. Not that there aren't hundreds of … (View Post)

That's not going to happen. To understand fully Trump's appeal, the Guardianista left would have to understand three things which are anathema to their world view: - poorer people often care about th… (View Post)

Obviously they are both wrong as usual. Labour are delivering their crap changes far too fast - about 5,000 years is the tolerable timescale for most of them. And Labour are indeed on the wrong cours… (View Post)

Overly simple or lying solutions to complex issues long predate the internet. The whole socialist movement owes its existence to that, as do organised religion and plenty of other inane ideologies. A… (View Post)

Get with the narrative. When your side wins by a percent or two, it's a landslide. When the other lot wins, it's a narrow victory without a real mandate. See, e.g., the BBC's gushing reporting of Oba… (View Post)