I am now in a rented Buron on the top of the Aubrac plateau. Very wildly beautiful. Just the sound of cattle bells, crickets and wind. Like renting a highland Croft, but on Dartmoor. After another 3 … (View Post)

I’m in France again at the moment, and just had lunch in Toulouse. For reasons I can’t quite put my finger on, France seems in the grip of a period of Anglophilia. Not just the friendly vibes in the … (View Post)

The sooner we start ignoring them the better. Their trolling is becoming so endemic it’s losing its shock factor. (View Post)

A related topic is consumer and producer protection, and the tensions between these. Both involve some sort of inhibition of “free speech”. We have advertising standards to ensure businesses can’t mi… (View Post)

I dipped into X this morning. (Why do I continue to do that?). It’s still wall to wall Falklands. Lots of “Argentinian” posters all of a sudden. Who also, oddly, seem to be repeating tropes about Bri… (View Post)