This absurdly self-absorbed struggle between trans activists and feminists is one of the most unedifying spectacles of the left of the last 40 years. No wonder the simplistic identity politics of the… (View Post)

Well, both the Civil Service reorganisation and the uncompromising Brexit stances seem driven by Cummings, not Johnson. He also seemed to retain ultimate control throughout the Barnard Castle affair,… (View Post)

It's strikingly reminiscent not just of the Soviet Union, but of the 1950s and 1960s Rand Corporation, data bureaucracy mindset that so many western liberals fought in the 1960s. (View Post)

Notice that none of the Club Med countries signed - that's because they're all dependent, to various degrees, on Chinese cash and investment since the financial crisis. (View Post)

It can be true that there are genuine reasons for grievance, and a new more abrasive form of personal politics that can sometimes make eventual resolution of these grievances actually take even longe… (View Post)