You're right that Truss is probably the main cause, but it's also interesting that it seems to have also got another step worse since 2016. I think what's happened is that you have ide… (View Post)

Monbiot makes multiple points there, though ; budgets for monitoring at the EA have been reduced by 55% over the last ten years, prosecutions have gone down by a staggering. 98%. This is because the … (View Post)

I would say yes and no, on that. I noticed several peers, growing up, benefitting from the condition of very pushily professional and/or intellectual parents, as I did. However, I would raise some qu… (View Post)

I wouldn't really take a pro-Serb view on Kosovo, but I personally would say that I think that second war has been wrongly simplified in the Western mind into as extremely as clear a case as tha… (View Post)

The problem is that is what is current is a very facile interpretation of his views. This is quite a significant problem at the moment, on both the left and right ; at times quite sophisticated criti… (View Post)