That looks like part of the nicer areas of Leeds. (View Post)

“Ever closer political integration” is a bogeyman. I still don’t agree with it, but I don’t think the reality think is what Euro-sceptics pretend it is, and don’t forget David Cameron got an opt out … (View Post)

I work in digital, so with lots of smart bright things, and to the extent there is sports chatter it’s about the Premiership. Only gauche provincials who grew up in Cincinnati talk about baseball. (View Post)

I don’t even think it’s really even possible to untangle Brexit from other issues, cleanly. In essence, Britain is a society that has become over-fianancialised, over-rentierized, and too old. It was… (View Post)

When I moved to the UK in 2000, it had fair claim to being the second greatest power on the globe. (Admittedly, that was because China hadn’t quite taken off, and other powers were also temporarily e… (View Post)