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)

I always think of my grandmother, born in 1904 and raised in British India. She went to school in a rickshaw, and remembered Gandhi drawing crowds as a soapbox activist - presumably following his ret… (View Post)