Off topic, this from Freedman on the travails of government is interesting: Quarter of a century ago, Professor Michael Moran came up with the concept of the “regulatory state” to describe the way Br… (View Post)

I was on the QM2 for a week with Sopel and got to know him a bit, as like me he had his dog in the ship's kennels. He's a nice, decent, guy, and a good storyteller, but I often find his jou… (View Post)

They'd have to do some cheating to win in Minnestota this year, after recent events! (View Post)

Andy Street always seems like a decent, sensible, intelligent guy - but it's very hard to recover nevertheless from the information that he's the gay life partner of Michael Fabricant. (View Post)

A feature of the Nazi takeover in the early '30s was that the far right had captured much of the judiciary before they came to power, hence closing off the legal system as a check and balance, o… (View Post)