Trump is the biggest vote winner for the non-far right parties. We’ve seen that time and again in elections around the Western world. It might even upset my pessimistic prediction of another Orban vi… (View Post)

The geography is fascinating. So many patterns there. The most obvious are the Lib Dem / Reform Wessex vs Danelaw divide and the more explicable SNP colours of Scotland, but we also have the way Plai… (View Post)

I saw a woman in a full face veil yesterday. I reckon I see maybe one or two a year. I live in inner London. Women in veils are roughly as rare, and roughly as obsessed about, as trans women. In fact… (View Post)

Bonkers Westerly wind burst going on in the tropical Pacific at the moment. Gale force Westerly winds in a region that should have Easterlies. Those winds are collapsing the usual piled up hot ocean … (View Post)

He may not yet be a dictator. But, remarkably, he’s behaving like a dictator of several years’ standing. The golden statue stuff usually happens many years into a dictatorship. We were talking books … (View Post)