You raise an interesting question about just how much the State itself is funding the legion of charities who then insist on new measures to constrain, emasculate and otherwise siphon more monies fro… (View Post)

I’m not sure they went out of fashion. Indeed, Dan Brown has just published his latest. (View Post)

Personally I think it’s better without Leon. Pretty much every thread became hijacked. Sometimes entertainingly, but more often not. His travel writing was incredibly banal. I see he is now posting o… (View Post)

Hello PBers. I’m kind of despairing at the news about Mr Abd El Fattah. It suggests that the entirety of government machinery is perpetuating a hoax on the wider public. Although I understand Abd El … (View Post)

Actual the moral victory is important. And any broader strategic reckoning can’t just look at territory. The cost in blood, the economic dislocation, and the lapse into wholesale dependency on China … (View Post)