Good: NEW: Home secretary Shabana Mahmood urges pro-Palestine protesters to consider not taking part in marches this weekend. "Imagine if you lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country … (View Post)

Not only is social media a distorting window on the world, it's not even a window that looks out on our bit of the world. Language teachers talk about false friends- words that look like they ar… (View Post)

With a few, very rare, exceptions, "my enemy's enemy is my friend" is a terrible model of the world. Yes, I know what Churchill said about Satan during World War Two. That was one of t… (View Post)

Does Farage still have the "It really is my party, because I own enough of the shares" thing? Technically, he could be replaced, I guess, or he could get bored/frit and wander off. But I do… (View Post)

Tea and moderately nice biscuits. And possibly steam engines. (View Post)