An illustration, and a reminder, if one were needed, of just how severe many current social problems are. These kinds of stories are not just the result of inflation. I live in hope that Therese Coff… (View Post)

I'm not quite sure what/or whether Starmer believes in, just yet. I have an underlying sense that he actually does quite strongly believe in a soft-left programme like Miliband's, much more… (View Post)

Well, speaking as a soft-leftie, I don't entirely disagree with one excerpt I heard from Cruella's speech, something like "it's immoral to expect white people to feel guilty for t… (View Post)

Indeed. The Blair-Miliband of our days, I think. (View Post)

Georges Moustaki - Greek-Italian-Egyptian-Jewish from Alexandria. Omar Sharif - Greek-Antiochian-Lebanese-Egyptian, from a similar part of Northern Egypt, as I remember. (View Post)