French politics is strange, and pretty unusual in the Western world. The leader is more important than the party. Parties come and go, rename themselves constantly, whereas individual politicians (Le… (View Post)

No, that’s not my argument at all. I am simply saying, there is an infuriating lack of any sort of prescription from this debate. What’s the so-what? Is it that Europe should “be more American”? Is i… (View Post)

My straw poll of a few dozen Labour types over the last few days suggests Burnham is almost universally seen as the messiah. Whatever floats their boat I suppose. So I’m not convinced by the civil wa… (View Post)

One of the silliest bits of the Brexit debate was this idea that if we adopt policies similar to place X then we become like place X. Let’s have an Australian-style points system. Then we’ll all live… (View Post)

I know what the meme is, and it contains truth. My question is: what’s the sequitur? What’s the “therefore”? The Europoor meme is almost entirely promulgated by Americans. I don’t think it’s because … (View Post)