They have substantially more Ss. 4 of them. And 2 Ps. We have none. I still search for the sequitur from the whole Europoor meme. Is it simply to make American social media types feel smug? Or is the… (View Post)

That’s ridiculously defeatist. It would remove large amounts of slop, and stop social media from falsely influencing narratives from anonymous accounts. As to the chilling effect, in the UK? Nonsense… (View Post)

The reason this hasn’t been done is political rather than bureaucratic though. Should just happen. (View Post)

I’ve got a fun month of train (and a bit of ferry) travel coming up: Liverpool st - Harwich on the boat train Hook of Holland - Utrecht - Cologne Cologne - Regensburg Regensburg - Vienna Vienna by bo… (View Post)

Had a fun day today of trying to glean some logic from the kremlinology of Labour internal politics. It’s nowhere near as easy to read as the Tory soap operas. First a call with the head of a Burnham… (View Post)