One feels more “European” the more time you spend in America, ironically. I confess I never self-identified as “European”, but I treasured the freedoms associated with European Union membership. Brit… (View Post)

To Love Somebody How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? How Deep Is Your Love? I’ll admit I prefer Nina Simone and Al Green for the first two. (View Post)

Who really was urging Sunak? We just knew we needed Truss out. (View Post)

NZ culture emanates from lower middle class settlement, including a large dose of Presbyterians. I think Canada is similar. Australia had a larger working class and indeed criminal element. The USA i… (View Post)

This was kind of believable until the last sentence. NZ doesn’t really have a “far right” in the European sense. We do have NZF who are kind of Faragiste populists - albeit led by Winston Peters, who… (View Post)