The other good thing about Channel 4 News is that they credit viewers with intelligence and attention span by featuring relatively long reports in depth on fewer subjects. The old Newsnight was as go… (View Post)

A student friend of mine was standing in the rain in Westminster waiting for a bus back in the Eighties, getting drenched. A man came out of an office nearby and flagged down a taxi. He asked her whe… (View Post)

Absolutely. People have got so used to domestic peace and order that they no longer even notice that they rely on it. Some friends of mine have known real disorder (the collapse of the Soviet Union, … (View Post)

I think that an unusually small number of council byelections have been successfuly defended in the last year, something like 40%. Thr churn of councillors for all parties could well be huge in May. (View Post)

It does look like US Evangelicals do have a war plan. It is to speed up the Apocalypse and bring on the return of Jesus. https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for?r=fx… (View Post)