I am in Normandy. There is a sense of poverty but the cheese and wine and charcuterie is an astonishing wealth compared with the terrible food offer in Manhattan. (View Post)

Sunak is the perfect metaphor for a Britain that has sold its public institutions to BlackRock and the Abu Dhabi Investment Fund. He is crap, and almost comically jejeune. (View Post)

Has anyone studied the class structure of the industrial revolution’s inventors and entrepreneurs? I wonder if they were preponderantly lower middle class, outsiders, and second sons. Who then handed… (View Post)

I very much doubt WE WOULD HAVE TO JOIN THE EURO. (View Post)

I went to get a coffee at a new kiosk that’s been set up in the local park the other day. There was light rain, and nobody was about. The kiosk looked empty. As I approached, I said loudly, “Hello!”.… (View Post)