Of course, US innovation seems to co-exist with absurd archaisms. It’s hard to make a “same day” payment in the banking system (although various apps have sprung up to provide a kind of alternative c… (View Post)

Happy Holidays PB. It Blanche (and others) are around, the Spotify playlist, “You’re Not on the Christmas List”, compiled by Jim Irvin, is v v good. (View Post)

No it doesn’t. These people were Scots. Absurd to pretend otherwise. (View Post)

Scottish unionism was/is a Scottish phenomenon, though. I’m not convinced by your historical analysis. The SNP are a pack of grievance-mongers. That some of those grievances are legitimate and provok… (View Post)

Rishi is astonishingly awkward. As in worse than Theresa May. There’s a puppyish earnestness in there which is not unappealing but overall it’s shocking that he’s supposed to be the First Lord of the… (View Post)