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)

But not, I guess for Mr Ahmed and his family, who currently reside in Virginia and must now prepare for his imminent deportation. Quite a rum way treat allies. (View Post)

You’re missing the point, perhaps disingenuously. The question is whether Farage was a horrible piece of shit, not his precise choreography on a grassy knoll. The unilateral answer is yes, and the co… (View Post)