Pretty standard though: Obama's trip, which includes visits to Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, is intended to bolster his foreign policy credentials before U.S. vot… (View Post)

Its part of the 'othering' needed by insecure guardianista types that they are somehow superior. Even if they're renting a room in Walthamstow and drowning in debt. (View Post)

You think that the pre 2008 UK housing and finance bubble was sustainable and could be extrapolated forever ? Do I need to point out what happened to the UK economy a few weeks later ? (View Post)

Ben & Jerry's has something of a history of exploiting migrant workers including illegal migrant child workers. They are also apparently rather more hostile to Israel than they are to Russia. (View Post)

That Raab is somewhere between abrasive and a bully, very possibly incompetent and certainly unwise doesn't preclude the civil servants he dealt with being incompetent or for that matter deliber… (View Post)