There are certainly issues with uncritically incorporating ideas like White Fragility, and even the wider White Privilege, as I've argued more than a few times than on these boards. The problem,… (View Post)

This is, in essence, a familiar tactic of something at the extremities or most strident end of the left being used to tar all of it, of transatlantic origin. In the early 1990s, the term "politi… (View Post)

Mandelson is unfortunately popular neither in the North or South. Judging by the reaction, I fear that bringing him back could be a second mis-step by Starmer of the last few months after appearing t… (View Post)

The storming of the Capitol obviously had nothing to do with a mob in Farage's mind, ofcourse. What a deeply inadequate and dangerous man he is, and yet the single most important figure behind t… (View Post)

His current incarnation is beginning to make him look a bit like the lost eccentric, of the lead role of Werner Herzog's film about Kaspar Hauser from the 1970s, the idiot-savant boy who grew up… (View Post)