Terrible town names on that shortlist. Only Pankhurst has a reasonably towny sound. Why not steal some economic thunder and use names that already have resonance as hives of creativity or moneymaking… (View Post)

That’s actually quite encouraging news for Hungary. Perhaps I should reverse my earlier pessimism. (View Post)

Typical leading poll question though. You get similar effects when people are asked if they’d vote Reform after being told about the latest racism revelation. (View Post)

Rather like Putin’s 3 day SMO, this is already a US failure on its own terms, regardless of the eventual outcome. By contrast this is very much not a failure for Netanyahu on his own terms. (View Post)

Anne Applebaum articulating what too few Europeans have managed to articulate properly. A piece that lays out Trump’s geopolitical awfulness in black and white.… (View Post)