This thing with an image of Sunak bending over to knight Stanley Johnson on both shoulders with that air of sunny, transparent technocracy of his, is vaguely reminding me of Caligula making his horse… (View Post)

I would say that's a pretty muddled article, speaking personally. There are the two separate issues of woke as "political correctness gawn mad" and a catch-all for reactionary bores, a… (View Post)

I would say he was just quoting from Rafael Behr's article there, right at the end of the interview. On all the substantive points, there was absolutely no scrutiny whatsoever, in a way that I s… (View Post)

Morning all. All of the failures of acquiescent modern BBC journalism on show on R4 Today this morning. A ten minute interview with the head of Palantir Technologies, to spout his panglossian cliches… (View Post)

They need to stress what needs conserving. Landscape, environment, beauty, concepts of service or communal responsibility, the more positive side of tradition in general. Not either outdated free-mar… (View Post)