Looks pretty open and shut in Le Pen's case, though. Huge undeclared party loans and donations apparently straight from Russia, even open public support and advocacy for his ridiculously staged … (View Post)

I suspect most of the 'left' was already pissed off when the left-right, public-private structure of Channel 4 first started to be unravelled and undermined in the 1990's. As discussed… (View Post)

Yes, anecdotally I've had a number of friends and relatives exclaiming at bill rises in the last fortnight or so, as I've also seen on these threads, too. (View Post)

It's not as clear as that, though, I would say ; the general mood music at the moment is "wind in their sails", and the implication of increasingly offensive weapons shipments from var… (View Post)

The problem is we now have the highest prices in western europe, for some of the worst service. Rail privatisation has been a clear failure in this respect. My own personal memories of British Rail a… (View Post)