This actually works extremely well here in Greece. The main state channel, ERT1, has news, advertisements and gameshows, and one of the other channels, I think either ERT2 or ERT3, has more upmarket … (View Post)

Precisely so. Netanyahu's goal is transparently obviously not "total victory" but continuous war. Total victory would mean the end of war unity in Israel, and his long-delayed trials on cor… (View Post)

'Evening all, but not such a great one. I'm increasingly coming round to my wife's view, who is a Jewish person who even knows a couple of the lefr-wing Israelis protesting against Netanyahu outside … (View Post)

Farage, it has to be said, would be an absolutely hopeless Prime Minister. The vanity and petty resentments wouldn't let him stay in office too long. (View Post)

Yes, this is also what I thought of the two, affluent and educated, but also clearly very bourgeois and insulated, Americans who I met. They were very nice and charming, but they also reminded me of … (View Post)