What on earth is the media going to cover for the next three weeks? The manifestos are nearly all out. The Reform surge had peaked too early. The Rishi-is-shit meme has become boring if not overdone.… (View Post)

The Lib Dem manifesto is absurd guff. A laundry list of motherhood and apple pies, designed to appeal to middle-aged Karens. The constitutional stuff is badly thought out. You’d have hoped they’d lea… (View Post)

The 2013 exhibition at Tate Britain was very good, looking at his work through the theme of industrial alienation and comparing with similarly estranged works by Van Gogh and Utrillo. The Marxist hus… (View Post)

Essentially, if the US keeps supplying armaments, then Ukraine can hold on, and eventually Putin will settle for something like the above. So Putin is holding on for a Trump victory, and Zelensky is … (View Post)

We are at the end of an era. When historians come to write proper accounts of the 2010-2024 period, who amount the governing party(s) will be remembered? Here’s my list, to qualify you need to have h… (View Post)