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)

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)