In no way can this British state be trusted with wholesale access to private data. The British state, contra generally received opinion, is inherently illiberal, because public opinion is. (View Post)

Northumberland is a top flag. I also like Warks and Staffs. Lincolnshire flag is hideous. Unsurprisingly it was selected via an online BBC vote. (View Post)

The link goes to the Radio 4 livestream, which is currently playing the Archers. Can we get a second source that Toynbee is resiling from the Refugee Convention? (View Post)

The Empire was picturesque, and glorious, and a swashbuckling adventure. Sometimes it was pious, and sometimes squalid and depraved. Such are human constructs. That it was undemocratic is a weird, a-… (View Post)

I know the fashionable view is that Trump has achieved nothing over the past week, but haven’t we essentially now confirmed that Ukraine needs security guarantees - now tentatively understood as comp… (View Post)