The French plan and build - look at the TGV decades ago. Similarly with the Japanese, Scandinavians and Germans. Even Italy has a great train system. (View Post)

This needs to happen to our entire electoral, constitutional and political system, rather than any particular individuals, I think. We need four new parties of the left and right, PR, a new consituti… (View Post)

There's actually one other modern functioning language descended that way - Tsakonian Greek, a local dialect in Southern Greece from Doric Greek, but only a few thousand people in the Peloponnes… (View Post)

I very much hope Starmer turns out to be more leftwing than he appears to be. On the other hand, I think the charitable status policy, like the assisted places ban policy before it, is vacuous gestur… (View Post)

The sadly inescapable fact , for the Britsh right , is that the Thatcherite model of industrial investment and workplace relations is failing, and the German collaborative model with unions and corpo… (View Post)