I think it's more that Britain just isn't considered that important in the U.S., outside very particular areas of intelligencce-sharing and co-operation, and which is a fact that is very di… (View Post)

There's a major problem at the moment, of the lack of middke-ground opinion sources, that are not extremely partisan, either on the left or right. For a while Unherd served as a good sort of cen… (View Post)

That single sentence sums up almost everything that is wrong with our primitive penal system, and why we have such vastly overflowing prisons which are schools for crime, unlike any of our neighbours… (View Post)

Indeed, it's the opposite of the Blair/Blunkett approach, more like Rory Stewart's, and warms me. If Kendall can avoid similar popular gimmicks that don't work, in other areas like wel… (View Post)

I hope Liz Kendall isn't too ideological to deal with the DWP. Her ultra-Blairite record doesn't necessarily inspire confidence that she will force the release of the *seven* Dwp internal i… (View Post)