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)

For some people, their net worth is how they keep score, how they know that they are winning at life. (After all, once you are living well off the interest on the interest, what else can you do but v… (View Post)