Economics is the cake and culture is the icing. Johnson’s platform was essentially a left wing conservative one, where he humoured the culture warriors on the right against his own instincts, rather … (View Post)

Beijing perfected the opening ceremony as an exhibition of mass human performance, which could never be excelled. London countered by staging a mass appeal ceremony while relying on the media coverag… (View Post)

I don’t believe in insurance. But I have been putting what would have been his premiums aside, which is more than enough to cover it. My worry is about a reoccurrence, which is now a 50/50 bet. (View Post)

I’m watching events in Paris with a coned-dog just back this afternoon from his £2,500 emergency bladder surgery yesterday - on Thursday he was just a day or so from a rather nasty death. Lucky I rus… (View Post)

Not necessarily. Of course an incoming government has an incentive for blaming its predecessors for leaving a mess, as justification for making some unpopular early decisions. But equally a governmen… (View Post)