Me too. If I voted based on my own circumstances and narrow financial interests I'd be a fanatical Tory. I suppose this must make me one of those rich lefty hypocrites. (View Post)

I wouldn't describe the LRB as pseudo-intellectual. Or to put it another way, if the LRB isn't intellectual, what is? (View Post)

Euch, working class people with political power, how awful. (View Post)

I think we just have to accept that all criticism of Israel is a thought crime in Britain. If the Israelis want to kill another 12000 Gazan children who are we to question them? (View Post)

But it is very easy for those who earn income on capital to get paid it as a capital gain, thus paying far less tax than us poor PAYE mugs who actually work for a living. It is economically illiterat… (View Post)