Re; the posts below on Trump, Arendt and totalitarianism, I highly recommend this article on Trump from a couple of years ago. Ironically too, it includes very apt insights for Trump from the alt-rig… (View Post)

The Cummings period is, in a certain sense, the most concrete link to Trumpism between the two governments. When Cummings produced that shameless press conference in the Downing Street garden, with t… (View Post)

Some good observations above. An excellent article below, which perfectly encapsulates how more economically marginalised parts of America have been pressed into the service of ultra-capitalism by it… (View Post)

Media and infotainment culture in Britain and the US degraded quite substantially at quite a specific time, between the early and late 1990's.Ten years later, that culture had already consumed a… (View Post)

Yes, it's an excellent header. That two statistics alone tell you a huge amount : Between 1967 and 1981 4% of Americans saw a drop of greater than 25% in their income. Between 2002 and 2016 that… (View Post)