Italy has electronic ID cards, and there’s no-one working illegally anywhere in Italy, and no-one pitching up from the Med in a small boat, no sirree…. (View Post)

Today faccio il turista with a trip to Venice for a fish lunch by a canal. It’s been a very nice day for it, with sunshine and clear air but not too hot. Venice was crowded, as ever, but not overwhel… (View Post)

You'd hope that we Brits are a bit more sceptical and worldly wise than all those credulous Americans. But then you look at some of the stuff that someone of middling intelligence like our Leon … (View Post)

Powell winning and Burnham’s prospects are, however, heavily correlated (View Post)

That someone is willing to debate and be challenged and be held to account is all admirable - but not necessarily correlated with holding acceptable or peaceable or temperate views. (View Post)