I would see it rather differently, in that I think that our world-leading Universities are essentially what remains of Enlightenment Britain before a facile cult of anti-intellectualism swept through… (View Post)

With the current level of global escalation, and the increasing cooperation of the BRICs, I don't think there's any alternative to some form of very toughly negotiated de-escalation. Neithe… (View Post)

I wouldn't personally describe it as a post-1960's phenomenon. The 1960"s and 1970s BBC was often leftwing, but also creatively and intellectually ambitious. Joan Bakewell in her minis… (View Post)

Morning, PB. The BRICS are dominating global social media, partly through actual events, and partly through bots. I don't think I've seen this extent of non-Western alliance since the Cold … (View Post)

In the 1980's, after being extraordinarily good at Jazz in the 1979's , the Japanese excelled at a kind of funky and very refined Tokyo pop music known as "City Pop", which always… (View Post)