That's feeble and unnecessary. Pre-pandemic I gave occasional seminars on British life to visiting Chinese groups, including courses in how British democracy worked and the advantages that we se… (View Post)

Are you sure? I read it as only relating to not prejudicing the trial. It's normal for the media not to describe previous convictions of people on trial. There doesn't seem to have been an … (View Post)

Insofar as testing is in the interest of others (because it makes it less likely that people will go out infecting others), it's different from most prescriptions. But I agree that if we're… (View Post)

Yes, I'm sure it's a factor, especially with phone interviews (not quite rare, I think?), but which way does it affect? I remember at a Labour conference taking a IPSOS-MORI poll during a b… (View Post)

Yes, the Greens are aggressively anti-Putin too, even more so in Germany where they outdo both the SPD and the CDU on the subject. He ticks all their boxes for hate figures - authoritarian, pro-oil/g… (View Post)