If you say that history began in 1979, the problem for a British Conservative is that our side has run the show most of the time. Although there have been some plucky attempts to pin it all on Starme… (View Post)

They're both Very Very Online. For Very Online People, this is existential. It's saying that the ground on which you have built a chunk of your life is so toxic as to be uninhabitable by he… (View Post)

Ask your editor. Apparently, he knows quite a bit about it. For some reason. (View Post)

Pretty much. The early bits of the retaliation- which did look like trying to destroy Hamas- were probably acceptable (war is always hell) but perhaps unwise (full victory meant destroying an idea, n… (View Post)

The old tabloid wisdom was "who the hell reads the third paragraph?" The newer tabloid wisdom was "who the hell reads any paragraphs at all?" I don't know how you can go wors… (View Post)