What a strangely successful country Iceland is. It seems to have received the best of a combined Anglo-American and Scandinavian, more Continental influence. We could learn a bit from that. (View Post)

That's extraordinary, because I was actually there too, going to a wedding in Paris. (View Post)

A good bit of anecdote reporting, from the press rather than TV again, because it captures a sentiment, simultaneously strong and low-key. "Victoria, 53, an artist, and her daughter Grace, 20, a… (View Post)

Exactly so, at least in terms of Russia staying together. I was going to post yesterday exactly the same - that the nonsense about "embracing the chaos" from figures like Applebaum indeed r… (View Post)

HUYFD's comment has now set up an image in my mind of all the royal family becoming rock stars, leading cocaine cartels and then going to jail, but in the garish tones of an Andrew Lloyd Webber … (View Post)