Have you ever even been to London? It is full of incredibly ambitious young people, often immigrants or children of immigrants. My daughter attended a state sixth form college that sends more kids to… (View Post)

I don't want to puncture this immigration theory of everything, but those differential unemployment rates are probably related to age more than anything else, as London has a younger population … (View Post)

I think that's right - conservatives who get this, like Bill Kristol or Dick Cheney, have been at the forefront of opposition to MAGA. Unfortunately, there are others who see Trumpism as less of… (View Post)

Fascism, including the MAGA incarnation, is all about winning over society's losers - Trump talks about this quite explicitly. Trump is a master at this - identifying points of shame, humiliatio… (View Post)

Yes, the characters never became caricatures. Mainwaring in particular is an extraordinarily well drawn character, assisted by Arthur Lowe's subtle performance. On one level ridiculous, pompous … (View Post)