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 often… (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)