An excellent header, and one of the most comprehensive and concise I've seen on this site. (View Post)

This is partly the result of rule by shallow, posturing and often demagogic journalists, rather than experts, and is also testament to the still outsize and distorting influence of the British print … (View Post)

The money tree has magically been found to help key farming and red wall voters, it seems. (View Post)

My father was at university with Neal Ascherson in the 50s and said he was a nice chap. He's still writing for the London Review of Books at the age of nearly ninety, I think. (View Post)

There's not even any of the rumours or denied titbits of a deal briefing you might expect by now, if anything were going to materialise soon. If they're secretly on the verge of a breakthro… (View Post)