But Trump launched that run. (View Post)

Some of the German Zeiss lenses from the 1950s are incredible. A whole load of other mid-sized companies, in the typical cottage-industry precision genius the germans had, and still have, too, from t… (View Post)

A heartbreaking image of two little girls separated from loved ones in Mariupol on the front page of the Guardian today. In a strange way I find it the most directly affecting image I've seen th… (View Post)

I'm not sure that Johnson's rhetoric today about "ramping up lethal aid to Ukraine" is the vote-winner he thinks it is. The unpalatable truth is that most people are exhausted by … (View Post)

The 1970's had similar levels of inflation, but also far lower levels of social inequality. The effects of similar economic shocks, combined with post-Thatcherite levels of inequality, are not g… (View Post)