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)

;.) I certainly did enjoy my private education, but I know many others who didn't. My children went to the same grammar, which also has its own issues. From my point of view I would just prefer … (View Post)

Re; people wanting to think everything is better in Continental Europe, the unfortunate and inescapable reality is that many things currently *are* better, particularly by social and economic metrics… (View Post)

Much of this is right. Much less has changed since 2000. Frasier has been on again regularly in the mornings recently, and its episodes on at the moment are from the late '90s and early '20… (View Post)