Indeed. This does tend to remind everyone of both the Thatcherite and New Labour culpability for what happened in 2008.. Much of the rest of Europe looks on in bafflement. Even in countries where qui… (View Post)

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)