All the tabloids are going big on the Rashford story. It has a David-and-Goliath and Roy of the Rovers, working-class young footballer beats the government angle, which brings people back together af… (View Post)

Indeed. (View Post)

Indeed. This has a multi-dimensional toxicity. It represents a total breakdown of the covid consensus combined with the unravelling of the government's earlier "anti-elite" posture. (View Post)

You often surprise me, Big G. Sometimes you appear to fall into line as a loyalist, but at crucial moments you show a strong streak of pretty sound moral judgment. (View Post)

Yes, the left-libertarians / anarchists who still have quite a presence in Spain and Greece, and who Orwell much preferred to the Stalinists. They were essentially destroyed by both the more orthodox… (View Post)