Indeed. This has a multi-dimensional toxicity. It represents a total breakdown of the covid consensus combined with the unravelling of the government's earlier "anti-elite" posture. (View Post)

You often surprise me, Big G. Sometimes you appear to fall into line as a loyalist, but at crucial moments you show a strong streak of pretty sound moral judgment. (View Post)

Yes, the left-libertarians / anarchists who still have quite a presence in Spain and Greece, and who Orwell much preferred to the Stalinists. They were essentially destroyed by both the more orthodox… (View Post)

Hurrah ! Good to hear. (View Post)

There is quite a common left-libertarian position for people like Chomsky, though, who regard themselves as anarchists. Their concept of libertarianism tends to be to do with self-governed and self-d… (View Post)