The operation of both rule of law, and liberal democracy, means we often have to defend people for things we don’t personally condone. I’d have thought this was basically liberalism 101. It makes you… (View Post)

No doubt Starmer is to blame somehow; it is in his constituency. (View Post)

I don’t much like Peter Zeihan, who I think is facile. To give one example, he insisted - and I think still insists - that the UK will inevitably come begging for an agriculture deal with the US beca… (View Post)

Labour could do worse than appoint @cyclefree to draw up a comprehensive new code for civil service and public sector governance and appointment processes. (View Post)

Niall Ferguson, who is pretty much the only right-wing thinker in modern times I give credence to, posted a truly pessimistic twix thread in early January, noting that the U.S.-led world order was un… (View Post)