Excellent article on the increasingly nasty atmosphere developing in Faversham, where Reform runs the Kent county council. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/09/racist-mob-menacing-re… (View Post)

Morning PB. The Trumpy glitz of the Reform conference style may not have gone down so well in small town England. I also wonder about some of the people they got on stage, there. Meanwhile Zack Polan… (View Post)

Eurovision has repressed Briitish music for over 50 years now. Only once British pop music can claim to be truly sovereign, can we truly be said to be a democracy. The whole edifice is falling apart,… (View Post)

I'm always surprised to see Farage doing well, or at least picking up support, in Scotland. I suppose I must have overstated the differences between Scotland and England. (View Post)

There's a particular kind of domestic focus of WATO on the business of politics that can sometimes be very dull. I think the World Tonight is often much more informative, although it doesn't get as m… (View Post)