Yes, an interesting development. Die Linke - the classical ex-Communists - have become very green, pro-Ukraine and generally hard to distinguish from Guardian-reading left-wingers, and they struggle … (View Post)

Just to be clear - you genuinely think that it's legitimate to prevent a civilian population having water and food if a plurality of them some years ago elected a government with whom Israel is … (View Post)

I was in Trafalgar Square with a non-partisan friend when the march went by (we went to see Hamnet btw - well staged but a bit meh IMO) and it struck us that the vast majority of the marchers were ca… (View Post)

Off topic, the Argentinian result is interesting (and cautiously encouraging) - the overwhelming favourite and leader in the polls, an aggressive Bolsonaro/Trump style populist with ultra-right opini… (View Post)

This subtle point is really important. I don't think we can or should do much about individual decisions to interact with like-minded people to pass the time as they want, and much of Alanbrooke… (View Post)